A universal subject for all religious thought Flashcards
religions typically have something to say about?
all of them
not only is the natural world the universal environment for all of the religions, but for the most part all religions have something to say what the _.
physical world means
many religions offer _.
cosmogony
stories about where they came from
cosmogony
where the “cosmo” came from, how the universe came to be in the order
cosmogony
where do people come
anthropogony
religious worlds having different cosmogonies and some of them include where people are coming into existence and some don’t-it depends, usually comes later
anthropogony
where God or gods come from
theogony
it depends on the context of the religious worlds
theogony
negative, paradoxical
theogony
God or gods didn’t come from anywhere, they’ve always been
theogony
Resist doing theogony
some buddhist traditions
if the world came to exist, it is beyond our ability to understand the creation story on how to get people to stop worrying and thinking about it
theogony