Chapter 8 Flashcards
According to New spirituality, human beings are ultimately what?
Energy fields
According to Postmodernism , religion is what?
A meta narrative, and true for everyone
Marx saw God as an enemy of what ?
Science,materialism,socialism,communism
What does the world “holy” mean ?
Sacred, set apart, consecrated
What is contemporary form of atheism?
Secularism, Marxism
Which philosopher promoted the idea that God is merely a projection of humanity’s own making?
Ludwig Feuerbach
Which prominent atheist had big influence on the American educational system?
John Dewey
The belief in a multitude of deities
Polytheism
The belief in the existence of a God or gods
Theism
The belief that life arrived on earth from outer space
Panspermia
The belief that non-living matter produced living matter through purely natural processes
Spontaneous generation
The political movement that interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ as a call to liberate the poor
Liberation theology
States that complexity and information within DNA molecules reveal evidence for design
Genetic Information theory
According to _________ there is no God but God.
Isaiah 44:6
Many New Spiritualist believe that after death a person’s spirit will be re-embodied through
Reincarnation
Muslims view the Christian doctrine of the ______ as heretical
Trinity
Its rates that the universe was designed for human beings
Anthropoid principle
The essential creed of Islam (the sharada) states, “There is no God but Allah and _____is his prophet “
Muhammad
Study of God
Theology
Belief that everything in the universe is ultimately divine
Pantheism
A general distrust toward religion, claiming to know absolute truth about reality
Theological suspicion
The belief in the existence of 1 God
Monotheism
The belief in one God recognized as 3 separate and distinct person: Father, Son,holy Spirit.
Trinitarian Monotheism
