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Western Religions
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
05/07/2010

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Term
"ultimate concern"
Definition
Paul Tillich's definition of religion
Term
"religion implies an orientation to God
Definition
Thomas Aquinas's definition of religion
Term
Fides quarens intellectum
Definition
faith seeking understanding
Term
Who counts as a Jew?
Definition

if your mother is a Jew

- matter of physical decent

Term
Do you observe the torah?
Definition
shariah
Term
theology is more of a                     idea
Definition
Western Christian idea
Term
law of return
Definition
every Jew has the right to come to israel as an immigrant
Term
Spain, Portugal Jews
Definition
Sephardic Jews
Term
Eastern Europe Jews and most of U.S. Jews
Definition
Ashkenazi Jews
Term
separate genders in their services, neither beliefs nor rituals negotiable, believe in resurrection of Jews
Definition
Orthodox Jews
Term
loose in belief, reject strict adherence to mosaic law, don't believe in messiah, no after life, services in vernacular of country, try to relate Judaism to contemporary society
Definition
Reformed Jews
Term
rituals should remain unchanged but beliefs about supernatural can change
Definition
Conservative Jews
Term
House of Peace
Definition
Beth-shalom
Term
most Jews are        Jews
Definition
most Jews are secular Jews
Term
Movement to establish a Jewish State
Definition
zionism
Term
major powers ratified doctrine
Definition
Balfour Declaration of 1917
Term
good Friday/ day of atonement
Definition
Yom Kippur
Term

meal with family, symbolic, youngest child asks questions like why are we here today?

- Passover meal

Definition
Seder Meal
Term
rabbis more important
Definition
Rabbinic Judaism
Term
             is a center of 3 religions
Definition
Jerusalem is a center of 3 religions
Term
a truth we can't fully understand
Definition
mystery
Term
3 mysteries of Christianity
Definition
trinity, christ, church
Term
3 persons in one God
Definition
trinity
Term
divine and human nature
Definition
Christ
Term
one Person present in billions of people
Definition
Church
Term
chief person of Orthodox church
Definition
patriarch
Term
study of the Holy Spirit
Definition
pneumatology
Term
Primary definition of Religion
Definition
as a way of life
Term
secondary definition of religion
Definition
as an academic discipline (religious studies)
Term
seeking and responding to what is experienced as sacred
Definition
Roger Schmidt
Term
Religion implies an orientation to God
Definition
Thomas Aquinas
Term
ultimate concern
Definition
Paul Tillich
Term
telling a story with one's life
Definition
Robert Novak
Term
schience of human moral action and being using reason (logic) as its guide
Definition
ethics
Term
the denial of a tenet or doctrine of fiath
Definition
heresy
Term
the process by which the experience of everyday living is becoming standardized around the globe
Definition
globalization
Term
correct practice
Definition
orthopraxis
Term
a sacred story dealing with the beginning or end of time
Definition
myth
Term
back to basics, literal interpretation of scripture
Definition
fundamentalist
Term
God is over and above the world
Definition
transcendant
Term
God's presence in the world
Definition
Immanent
Term
univocal term
Definition
has simply ONE meaning
Term
equivocal term
Definition
has 2 or more meanings
Term
analogous term
Definition
the meaning is one but different in a certain respect being is an analogous term
Term
the best knowledge we have about God is that we don't know everything about it
Definition
via negativa
Term
deum ad inopia vocabulorum
Definition
God is ineffable
Term
1st five books of Hebrew scriptures
Definition
pentateuch
Term
Jewishness is a matter of                according to            
Definition
Jewishness is a matter of Physical decent according to halakhah
Term
dancing and singing Jews, Besht-Baal Shemtov
Definition
Hasidic Jews
Term
stress the centrality of God as a living reality, they stress divine revelation and see Israel as an eternal people
Definition
ultra-orthodox
Term
mutatis mutandis
Definition
making a necessary change
Term
looser interpretation of the Talmud (folkloric)
Definition
Aggadah
Term
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 "Hear o Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one
Definition
Shema
Term
house of worship
Definition
synagogue
Term
3 stages of spiritual interior life
Definition
via purgativa, via illuminativa, via unitiva
Term
fasting ash wednesday (human effort)
Definition
via purgativa
Term
the person is passive God is active
Definition
via illuminativa
Term
unitive stage, the soul and God merge
Definition
via unitiva
Term
intoxicated with God
Definition
maa
Term
circumcision
Definition
bris, birt milah
Term
rights of passage
Definition
bar and bat mitzvah
Term
3 schools of scholasticism
Definition
Jewish, Christian, Muslim
Term
sought to explain the mystery of good and evil in the universe
Definition
kabbalah
Term
book of splendor
Definition
Zohar
Term
the Bescht, Master of Good name, charismatic figure, attachment with God, finding God through devotion to be joyful always
Definition
hasidism
Term
movement stressed community
Definition
hasidic
Term
jewish word for holocaust
Definition
shoah
Term
that by which a thing is what it is 
Definition
essence
Term
essence regarded as the source of operation
Definition
nature
Term
that which exists in itself not in another
Definition
substance
Term
individual substance of a rational nature
Definition
person
Term
Christ has two natures:
Definition
divine, and human
Term
one Person (Holy Spirit) present in billions of persons, simultaneously
Definition
church
Term
one's personal relationship with a higher power "the living out of one's philosophy of life"
Definition
spirituality
Term
world view
Definition
weltanschauung
Term
3 vows nuns take
Definition
obedience, chastity, poverty
Term
boot camp for nun
Definition
postulant
Term
novice nun, 1 year and 1 day
Definition
novitiate
Term
poverty, chastity, obedience
Definition
simple vows
Term
3 years or leave
Definition
solemn vows
Term
interpretation of scripture down through ages
Definition
tradition
Term
early church
Definition
urkirche
Term
the bible alone
Definition
sola scriptura
Term
how can i find a gracious God?
Definition
justification
Term
Luther
Definition
faith alone and sola scriptura
Term
7 sacraments of reconciliation
Definition
baptism, eucharist, confirmation, matrimony, holy orders, reconciliation (penance) sacrament of the sick
Term
Vatican II
Definition

1962-1965

latin mass vs. vernacular mass

Term
adoration of God
Definition
latria
Term
hyper dulia
Definition
veneration to Mary
Term
veneration of Saints
Definition
dulia
Term
arian heresy (Arius)
Definition
Council of Nicea 325
Term
"Christ was subordinate to God the Father"
Definition
Arian heresy
Term
of the same substance
Definition
homoousios
Term
the time gregory was pope
Definition
pontificate
Term
first crusade
Definition
only one with success
Term
God in Arabic
Definition
Allah
Term
final revelation from Allah to the prophet Muhammed through the angel Gabriel
Definition
Qur'an
Term
Prophet Muhammed's advice to his companions
Definition
Hadith
Term
to struggle, internal struggle of man to do what is right
Definition
Jihad
Term
5 pillars of Islam
Definition
testimony of faith (shahada), prayers (5x daily), support the needy (zakat), fasting during Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)
Term
2 sects of Islam
Definition
Sunni vs. shiite
Term
sign of GOd
Definition
ayatollah
Term
successor to prophet
Definition
caliph
Term
peopole of book
Definition
dhimmi
Term
legal opinion
Definition
fatwa
Term
sc. of Islamic law
Definition
fiqh
Term
report about Muhammed's life
Definition
hadith
Term
pilgrimage to Mecca
Definition
hajj
Term
kosher food, what is permitted to eat
Definition
halal
Term
veil
Definition
hijab
Term
migration of Muhammed from Mecca to Medina
Definition
hijra
Term
consensus in making decisions
Definition
ijma
Term
prudence in making a decision
Definition
ijtihad
Term
prayer leader/main man (pope)
Definition
imam
Term
surrender to Allah
Definition
Islam
Term
individual effort/struggle, or defensive war
Definition
jihad
Term
imam to come at end of time
Definition
Mahdi
Term
place of worship
Definition
mosque
Term
most powerful Pope in history
Definition
Pontificate of Innocent III
Term
bringing up to date
Definition
aggiornamento
Term
Gentitles thought they superceded the Jews
Definition
supersession
Term

wrote Confessions and City of God

-Doctor of Grace

- wrote against Pelagian heresy

Definition
St. Augustine
Term
said we don't need grace to be good, we don't need help from God, people are basically good
Definition
Pelagian heresy
Term
modern way, reason doesn't help us discover God's will for us
Definition
via moderna
Term
reconciliation or union of opposing principles and or practices
Definition
syncretism
Term
church and state are one
Definition
Constantinian model
Term

church deals with spiritual matters

state deals with temporal, material matters

Definition
augustinian model
Term
christians work with others concerned with seeking social "justice"
Definition
diaspora model
Term
conducting life apart from what is sacred
Definition
secularization
Term
defined the nature of relationship between the human nature of Christ
Definition
Council of Chalcedon
Term
have trouble dealing with modern world
Definition
fundamentalists
Term
the full shot do something like a pilgrimage on knees makes up for all punishment
Definition
plenary indulgence
Term
money, gain some time away from purgatory
Definition
partial indulgence
Term
communism
Definition

dialectical    materialism

(hegel)       (Feuerbach)

Term
produced militant, religio politcal movement
Definition
al Wahhab
Term
Muslim brotherhood
Definition
Qutb
Term
remembrance of God
Definition
dhikr
Term
love poet
Definition
Meviana
Term
ruling dervishes (divine favor to humans)
Definition
sema
Term
process by which experience of everyday living is becoming standardized around the globe
Definition
globalization
Term
sacred story dealing with beginning or ending of time
Definition
myth
Term
philosophical mov't that believes no absolute truth
Definition
postmodernism
Term
empathy
Definition
sympathetic imagination
Term
a good deed/commandment
Definition
mitzvot
Term
coming of age
Definition
  bar mitzvah
Term
a contract between two or more people
Definition
covenant
Term
Jewish law, part of the Torah
Definition
halakhah
Term
those jews who are part of 18th c. mystic movement
Definition
hasidism
Term
mystical tradition
Definition
kabbalah
Term
book of splendor, jewish mysticism
Definition
zohar
Term
oral law
Definition
mishnah
Term
summary of oral law
Definition
talmud
Term
movement to restore promise land to Jews
Definition
zionism
Term
universal
Definition
catholic
Term
God created world, then left the world
Definition
deism
Term
good news
Definition
gospel
Term
3rd mystery (church, Holy Spirit)
Definition
grace
Term
justification answers questions how can i find a gracious God?
Definition
justification by faith
Term
idea derived from maximum work hard save money
Definition
protestant ethic
Term
outward sign of inward grace
Definition
sacrament
Term
second coming at end of world
Definition
parousia
Term
reconciliation or union of opposing principles
Definition
syncretistic
Term
mystery of Christianity
Definition
trinity
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