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27/6 2nd Religious Studies Exam Flashcards

1
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What is a simple god?

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Has no part or characteristics

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2
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What did st. Augustine say about god?

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He is unchangable and therefor cannot loose or gain

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3
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What two times of omnipotence.

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Logical and illogical

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4
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What did Descartes believe god could do?

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The impossible and illogical.

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5
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What did Aquainas believe god could do

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The logical

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6
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Who believe god was transient

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Aquinas

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7
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Who believed that god was immanent

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Aquinas and Aristotle

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8
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What did Plato believe?

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God was too perfect to be on earth

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9
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Who believed god was timeless

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Boethius

God exepiriences time in one glance

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10
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Who believed god is everlasting

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Swinburne because the Bible says so

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11
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What did Aquinas say about god

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He has no beginning or end

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12
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What are the three types of creator god

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Ex nihilo from nothing
Ex materia already existing
Ex deo from himself

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13
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What did aquainas say about analogys

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They’re the middle way

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14
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What is the analogy of atricbution

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Attributes that can be applied to humans and god

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15
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What is the via negativa

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Describing by what’s it snot

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16
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What two paints are thee

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The creation of Adam; Sistine chapel da vinci

Russian all seeing eye

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17
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What principles are there

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Weak, strong and falsification

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18
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What are systematic statements

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Statements that are facts about the world

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19
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What are analytical statements

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Don’t say statements but are still meaningful

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20
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Who proposed the analogy of proportion

21
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What stories are there

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Resistance fighter
Bilks
Parable of the gardener 
Toys alive
Celestial city
22
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Who proposed symbols and signs

23
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What are symbols and signs

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Signs don’t participate in what they show but symbols do.

24
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What did Aquinas believe about the relationship between god and humans

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Humans are completely dependent on god

25
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How is god like electricity to humans like tvs

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Cause in esse

26
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What did st. Augustine believe

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It was perfection before the fall of man

27
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What did John Calvin believe

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Predestined for eternal salvation or eternal damnation

28
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What does the liberation theory say

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If Jesus was alive today he’d be a Marxist revolutionary

29
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Ramacandran found that religious images illicit similar responses to sexual ones. Temporal love epilepsy. Can trigger images and feelings associated with god.

30
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What is st. Augustine theodicy

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God is punishing us, he is our judges.

31
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What did Marx say

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Religion is the opiate of the masses,

32
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Quote to back up Marx

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It’s hard for a rich man to get into heaven than it is an elephant to fit through the eye of needle.

33
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What is the story Vardy told

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The king and the peasant girl. He wants us to choose to follow him

34
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What did Durkheim say?

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Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices real ative to sacred things.
Ordinary things are profane

35
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What did Freud believe

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God Is a product of a fault mind.

36
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What three reasons did Freud say believe are religious

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Collective neurosis
Oedpius complex
Wish fulfillment.

37
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John hicks work is based on iraneus

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Humans are made imperfect so we can grow and develop into better beings

38
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What did William James say religious experiences are

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Defined by their outcomes

39
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What 5 types or RE did James propose
Public: see god, breach natural law
Private: explained with words, not explained with words, feeling presence

40
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What 4 classifications of RE are there

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Passive
Ineffable
Noetic
And transient

41
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What are visions

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A form of revolutionary experience where people see or hear things

42
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What three types of visions are there and examples

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Corporeal st. Bernadette
Imaginary minds eye and dreams
Intellectual revelations and lessons

43
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What did Rudolph Otto propose

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Numen and numinous/ presence of something greater than yourself

44
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What did Aquinas say miracles were

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Those things done by divine power apart from the order usually followed by things,

45
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What types of miracles did Aquinas propose

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Nature can do
Nature can not do
Things than god did without nature

46
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What times of RE ARE THERE

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Mysterium tremendum- overwhelming fear and awe of the unknown
Mysterium fascinaans- feelings of love and mercy

47
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What did Hume say miracles were

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A transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity.

48
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What types of RE were there according to Caroline frank davis

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1 interpretive
2quasi-sensory
3revelutionary
4regenerative
5numinious 
6mystical

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