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| Why do Humans Turn to Religion |
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1. Fear
2. Dreams
3. Wonders
4. Soul
5. Animism |
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| What are the major characteristics of the primal world? |
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Nature- Direct, continuous contact, weather(not an inconvenience its life or death) Catastrophe is out of human control
Atheism- very few people in primal cultures who are atheists |
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| How is community defined? |
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-all living and dead humans
- all local animals
- all local plants
- all geography
- all cultural social rules, customs, beliefs, taboos
-local weather
- all spirits that live with everything
- all cultural artifacts |
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| What are some common characteristics of Primal reigions? |
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1. Oral vs. Written
2. Place vs. Space
3. no distinction religious and secular
4. eternal time
5. spirit world
6. symbols
7. shaman, medicine man, preiests, magicians |
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| what rituals are often associated with Primal Religions? |
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Basic Sustenance: food water, rain floods, harvesting hunting gathering
Death: Kind of death appeasing spirits and ancestors
kind of birth
Gender issues: women and Children
Initiation: pathway to certain rights |
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I observe the world around me. I see cause and effect relationships especially in nature and the community
My reason: authority of tradition authority figures |
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No creator- it just kinda happend
Creator- just peaced out left spirits to do their thing (translucent)
creator- still active in the world (innate) |
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| What is the nautre of humanity? |
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takes ancestors idenity
men most important
women are servents/slaves to men
elders closest to ancestors know oral traditions |
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| nature of reality ... COMMUNITY |
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| individual is subordinate to the needs of the group |
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| How do western worlviews compare with their treatment of the 5 motivations for religion: |
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Fear: fear is childish, instead have faith in technology
Wonder: based on ignorance have faith in science
Dreams: irrational and inconsequential fantasy |
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| Distinguishes belief from opinion "knowing" |
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| Putting ourselves above others |
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| Put down ideas that are old |
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| The enlivening of a thing with a spirit or a soul |
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| The study of culture and people |
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| what is a biblical revelation |
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| the act of revealing text from the bible |
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| what is are SPECIAL REVELATION from God |
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| scriptures experience and narratives w/in scriptures |
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| what is a GENERAL REVELATION from God? |
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| How do Jewish people view the Bible and their tradition? |
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| Torah is not just a book of stories and laws, it's a LOVE letter from God |
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| How do Christian people view the Bible and their traditions? |
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| How do Islamic people view the Bible and their faith tradtition? |
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| islam is a correction of Jewish and Chrisian teachings |
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| How did we get the Bible? |
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Oral: early stages
Written : by over 40 people |
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| how is the jewish canon arranged? |
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| how is the Christian canon arranged? |
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Old Testament
New Testament |
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| What are the three key themes of the Bible |
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| Creation , Fall, Redemption |
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| What is the Nature of GOD? |
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one god (monotheism)
creator ( tanscendent, yet immanent) |
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| What is the nature of the world? |
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Temporal (vs. eternal)
Created ( vs. autonomous)
Finite (vs. infinte)
orderly (vs. chaotic)
Linear (vs. cyclical) |
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| What is the nature of humanity? |
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created in God's image - realtionship, Blessing, purpose
Corrupted by the fall: Broken realtionships
Under cursel
Confusion/corruption of the purpose |
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| an agreement between two or more parties outlining mutual rights and responsiblities. |
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The father of many nations
monotheistic |
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Jewish W.V.
Nature of God...
Nature of Material World
Nature of Humanity |
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Transcendent
Created perfect but twisted by the sin of Adam and Eve
made in God's image but twisted by sin |
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How do we know the truth? |
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Empirical
Supernaturally Revealed Truth
God can speak individually to us (intuition) |
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| jewish how should we act in response to what we know is true? |
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Worship God and take care of God's creation Tikkumolam |
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The Torah -613 Commandments
The Mishnah
The Gemara
The Talmuda |
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Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Passover |
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| Jewish worldview at the time of Christ |
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The Sadducees did not believe in supernaturral
the Pharisees made sure everyone understood how the laws were carried out
The Essenes mystical side of life, not rational
The Zealots revelutionaries
The Samaritans Ethnically diverse |
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| Main branches of American Judaism today |
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Traditionalist
Liberals/Progressives |
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| Three Primary Groups of Judaism |
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Reformed Jews: the Torah guides us, there can be new interpretations
Orthodox Jews - traditionalist
Conservative Jews - inbetween Orthodox and Reformed
Mythical Judaism Kabbalah |
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| belief belief that God indwells or is identified with the created the world/universe (i.e. God is immanent) |
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| belief that God created the world but is no longer on the world (transcendent) |
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| existant beyond or independent from the universe |
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| having no bounds or limits |
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| physical study of the orgins and nature of the universe |
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| What is the nature of God (options) |
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Theism Atheism Monotheism Polytheism Personal Impersonal Imminate Transcendent |
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| What is the nature of the world |
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1. created (dependent/contingent) or autonomous?
2.material or spiritual?
3.temporal or eternal?
4.finite or infinite?
5.cyclical or linear?
6.chaotic or orderly?
7.open or closed? |
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| what is the role of a worldview? (feesi) |
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Formative - helps provide the basis upon which a culture is established
Evaluative - helps evaluate an experience
Explanative- gives a culture a way to explain how the world works.
Supportive - phsycological support
Integrative - helps culture integrate new information, values, philosophies, |
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| Formation of a worldview :Four ways of knowing |
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1.Intuition- Immediate (unmediated) knowledge
•Personal
•Instantaneous
•Involuntary
•Unknown origin
(Could get the wrong impression, don’t know the direct source)
2.Empiricism- knowledge through the senses / experiences (scientific)
•Real data
•Hard facts
•Science
( unseen, not the truth just the best we have so far, senses can be deceived, overlooks interpretations of data)
3.Innatism – inborn, universal
•Universal
•Logical
•“hardwiring”
4.Authority¬- received by those in authority/tradition
•books
•Teachers
•Parents
•Experts |
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| Nature of a worldview/Characteristics |
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1.Worldviews are UNIVERSAL everyone has one!
2.A worldview may be CONSCIOUS or UNCOUNSCIOUS
3.A worldview may be CONSISTENT or INCONSISTENT
4.Generally DETERMINED, SHARED & REINFORCED by one’s culture.
5.A worldview INFLUENCES and GOVERNS BEHAVIOUR (personal & corporate)
6.A worldview is CHANGEABLE (“paradigm shift”)
i.e. The tooth fairy, parents/teachers not always right, Santa Claus,
7.A worldview may CHALLENGE, CONTRADICT or CLASH with other worldviews. |
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| A definition: A “worldview” is a set of presuppositions (or assumptions) that we hold about the basic makeup of our world. |
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Right: Knowledge Speech Asspiration Effort Meditation Conduct Mindfulness Livelyhood |
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| Similaritys w/ Jews & Christians |
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Virgin Birth Sinless Prophet Assended to heaven in the flesh Preformed Miracles |
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| disagree con jesus w/ jews and christians |
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Dying on the cross assurance of salvation dispute beginning of faith disagree on gods language disagree on scripture nature of relationship master slave not father jesus is not God |
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