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A worldview is made up of

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life orienting presuppositions that one holds about the make-up of reality

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Worldviews are mostly a one way street; i.e, belief shapes actions but action doesn’t shape belief

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False

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The disruptive state one experiences when encountering information inconsistent with one’s beliefs

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Cognitive Dissonance

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Knowledge constructed through inference is

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reasoning

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Knowledge gained through experience,using senses

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sense perception/empiricism

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Knowledge independent of the senses,axioms of logic is

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rational insight

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Worldviews are often

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inconsistent and universal

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The role and value of a worldview is that it is

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explanative, evaluative, integrative, formative

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The process of seeking out information/evidence that reinforces one’s beliefs is

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Confirmation bias

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When God is said to exist beyond or independently of the universe

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transcendent

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When God dwells in the universe and/or is said to be personally knowable, God is called

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immanent

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Worldviews are primarily formed at the

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pre-theoretical level

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Stories impact our worldviews at a formational level because

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imitation via stories are intrinsic to human development and meaning-making

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Young people’s worldviews are by far influenced by

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parents

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The development theory of personality that gives priority that gives priority to the role of connection with others is called

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attachment theory

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The three kinds of insecure attachment are

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ambivalent-anxious,avoidant and disorganized

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It is often difficult to see just how formative symbols and practices are until they are

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explicitly challenged

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A number of factors that are entirely out of our control shape our worldview

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true

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The 5 factors that shape a worldview, symbols, practices, critical relationships, and experiences

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True

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Per the lecture, “ personality” is a purely biological, predetermined fact

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false

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Symbols that shape our worldview include which of the following

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events,images,artifacts,words/
phrases

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An extended example we used as a powerful cultural practice in the United States was

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The Pledge of Allegiance

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The word “primal” in “primal religions” means

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foundational

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Primal religions tend to be entirely unscientific, since they don’t use any kind of empiricism

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False

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Using one’s own culture exclusively to validate and value civilizations are called

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ethnocentric

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Many primal cultures believe in a high God

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true

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Characteristics of primal religious worldviews would include

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maintenance of cosmic balance, the cosmos is living/animated with the supernatural, the cosmos fluid

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Upsetting the cosmic balance by behaviors that violate the codes of respect for ancestors, etc is called

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Taboo

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Persons infused with spiritual powers to mediate rituals and negotiate with spirits is a

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Shaman

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The founder of Hinduism is Hindi, who lived about 3,500 years ago

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false

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Most Hindus do not devote large amount of their lives to studying the sacred Hindu text

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True

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Hinduism is best described as

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a henotheistic religion

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The nature of “ Brahman” the one supreme being is

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immanent,holy,ordinary, transcendent

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In Hinduism the “inner” part or the “soul” of humans is called

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atman

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The principle of non duality in Hinduism is called

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advaita

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In Hinduism, humanity, ignorance of advaita is the root of evil and leads to an “illusion’ called

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maya

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In Hindu belief, the difference between humans and God is a

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matter of degree

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To escape maya and the endless cycle of birth,death, and rebirth, a person could seek

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the path of devotion, the path of duty, the path of knowledge

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Regarding epistemology, Hinduism highly values

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intuition

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Hinduism tends to be more egalitarian than establishtarian

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false

41
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The most Orthodox and earliest form of Buddhism is

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Theravada

42
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The three marks of existence in Buddhism include all but

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attachment to the world is good

43
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In Buddhism the 5 Skhandas are things to which we cling for our identity and which give rise to suffering

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True

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The root of suffering in Buddhism is our

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anger, ignorance and greed

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The four noble truths in Buddhism include all except the truth that

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suffering has no end

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In Buddhism, one transcends suffering through

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right conduct, right thought, right mindfulness, right speech

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Islam considers itself to be

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in continually with previous prophets in the Jewish and Christian traditions; the final definitive message of God

48
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Muslims trace their lineage back to

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Abraham

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In Islam, Allah/ God is

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one, incomparable to anything, and has no son/ associates

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Muslims believe that the Qur’an

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was revealed to the prophet Muhammed is preserved from corruption by God and contains God’s final message to humankind

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The Five Pillars of Islam include;

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prayer, alms-giving, pilgrimage (Hajj)

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Al- Fatihah is the last chapter of the Qu’ran and summary of the Muslim faith

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False (it’s the first chapter)

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The most important of the five pillars/articles of Islam include

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testimony of faith

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Rabbi Tamar said that the essence of Judaism is

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living in harmony with human beings and living in harmony with God

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Rabbi Tamar emphasized that Judaism is more of a religion of

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actions and beliefs

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For Judaism, the “written Torah’ is primarily a reference to the

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24 books of the Hebrew Bible

57
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The “oral Torah” is now codified in the

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Talmud

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Reform Judaism tends to

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significantly adapt Judaism to the modern/secular world

59
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Conservative Judaism seeks to

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adapt Judaism to the modern world, but also retain obedience to Torah

60
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Tikkun Olam means

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the repair of the world

61
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The phenomenon whereby historically separate cultures increasingly overlap with each other

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Globalization

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Pluralists argue that all religions are

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historically and culturally conditioned, share a common destination, share a common core expressed in a distinct way

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Most famous influential pluralist

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John Hick

64
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Two key convictions of exclusivists

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fides ex auditu(faith comes from hearing) and solus christus (Christ Alone)

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Inclusivists claim that

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salvation is available outside the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is the normative revelation of God, and salvation always comes from Jesus Christ

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English protestant inclusivists is

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C.S Lewis

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Critics would say that pluralism is

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morally problematic, intellectually problematic, implicitly imperialistic

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Exclusivists would say that their position is

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consistent with the Bible’s teaching about God, doesn’t supplant God with human opinion, reckons with human corruptions/sinfulness

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Critics claim that exclusivists overlook

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what the Bible says about Judgment, what the Bible says about who truly God, Jesus Christ’s redemption of all things, the theological implications of their position

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