Chapter 5 Flashcards
Metanarrative
A single, over arching interpretation, or a grand story of reality
Historical context
A story of historical events
Ummah
A collective community of Muslims around the world
Literally text
The genre, structure, and grammar of text
Historical text
The time, place, culture, and audience of text
Theological text
Theological purpose of a text
Recapitulation
A story telling technology which an overview of a story is given before the story is laid out in specific detail
Atheism
The belief that God doesn’t exist
Polytheism
The belief of multiple deities
Naturalism
The belief that everything can be explain of terms of natural causes
Pantheism
The belief in the universe is divined
Panenthism
The belief that God is in everything
Astrology
The belief that astronomical events effect human events
Agnosticism
The belief that knowledge of God is ultimately inaccessible and unknowable
Nihilism
The view that the word and human existence are without mean, purpose, truth, or value