Dialogue with Religion Flashcards
The word religo originally meant ____ or ____. It was derived from the word ____, which means to tie back, to tie tight
obligation, bond ; religare
It is the belief in and reverence for a supernatural power recognized as the creator and governor of the universe
Religion
It is the spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognizes the existence of a superhuman power or powers.
Religion
Who said this?
“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
Immanuel Kant
Who said this?
“Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.”
Harriet Martineau
Who said this?
“Religion is that which grows out of, and gives expression to, experience of the holy in its various aspects.”
Rudolph Otto
Who said this?
“A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden – beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church all those who adhere to them.”
Emile Durkheim
Who said this?
“Religion is comparable to childhood neurosis.”
Sigmund Freud
Who said this?
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature… a protest against real suffering… it is the opium of the people… the illusory sun which revolves around man for as long as he does not evolve around himself.”
Karl Marx
Who said this?
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of life.”
Paul Tillich
Who said this?
“The essence of religion consists in the feeling of absolute dependence.”
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Who said this?
“Religion is a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of people struggle with the ultimate problem of human life.”
John Milton Yinger
Religion is the ____ of a culture.
heart
One of religion’s functions is to address issues of ____.
meaning
True or False
The arbitrariness of suffering causes people to want an explanation; the world should make sense, it should have some ultimate meaning.
True
True or False
Religion exists even in the contemporary times
True
____ moves people from one place to another that results to plurality of beliefs, religions and worldviews.
Migration
What function of religion is this?
It is the explanation of the natural and social world.
General
What function of religion is this?
A set of normative rules on how people should behave which enhance solidarity and social order through belief in a shared set of values
Moral
What function of religion is this?
This gives believers a sense of security and control thus reducing anxiety about current and future events.
Psychological
What function of religion is this?
It helps individuals become better adapted to the environment
Ecological
According to Fr. Edgar Javier, ____ is the norm and necessary manner of every form of Christian mission, because Christian mission is participation in the mission of God.
Dialogue
Who said this?
“Dialogue is the norm and necessary manner of every form of Christian mission, because Christian mission is participation in the mission of God.”
Fr. Edgar Javier
____ can become for us an experience of God’s Kingdom.
Dialogue
It refers to efforts of different Christian Churches to develop closer relationships and develop better understandings of their shared faith.
Ecumenism
It is the establishment or restoration of full communion of faith and sacramental life between Christians of different Communions.
____ dialogue
Ecumenical dialogue
It refers to the means of co-operation with those people of Non-Christian religions specifically with the members of the “Abrahamic faiths” (Jewish and Muslim traditions)
Interfaith Dialogue
It refers to the means of co-operation with those people of Non-Christian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism etc.
Interreligious Dialogue
____ and ____, though not on the same level, are both authentic elements of the Church’s evangelizing mission
Interreligious dialogue and proclamation
True or False
Interreligious dialogue and proclamation are legitimate and necessary
True
Interreligious dialogue and proclamation are intimately related, but not ____
interchangeable
____ is the birthplace of the major religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism
Asia
It is a philosophical perspective in the world that emphasizes diversity rather than homogeneity, multiplicity rather than unity, difference rather than sameness.
Religious pluralism
This means that there is no one religion or no one way of attaining salvation
Religious Pluralism
This means that everyone has their own way of salvation.
Religious Relativism
Jesus’ Encounter with the “Other”
The Apostles are to witness for Christ from Jerusalem, Samaria until the ends of the earth
Acts 1:8
Jesus’ Encounter with the “Other”
The Good Samaritan’s act differs from that of the priest and the levite
Lk. 10:29-37
Jesus’ Encounter with the “Other”
A Samaritan returned and gave thanks from the ten lepers who were healed
Lk. 17:11-19
Jesus’ Encounter with the “Other”
He admired the faith of the centurion and commended the faith of a Canaanite woman
Mt 8:10 ; Mt. 15: 28
(Acts 17:22-23), In ____ speech to the Athens, he announces the Unknown God whom they worship without knowing and in the following verses he states that God is near to every people and are called God’s offspring
who spoke to the Athens?
St Paul
It is first of all a search for and recognition of the presence and activities of the Holy Spirit to be evangelized, and in this humble and attentive process of listening, thus, the evangerlizers become ____ and the evangalized become ____
evangelized; evangelizers
According to religious plurality, it is the all positive and constructive interreligious relations with individuals and communities of other faiths which are directed at mutual understanding and enrichment
includes both witness & exploration of respective religious convictions
dialogue
True or False
Divine Providence denies the helps necessary for salvation to those who, without blame on their part, have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God.
False
There are those who, living and dying in this world without God, are exposed to final ____
despair
What Form of Dialogue is this?
People strive to live their life in harmony and peace with their neighbors of other faith sharing with each other as friends their joys and sorrows, hopes and dreams.
Dialogue of life
What Form of Dialogue is this?
When people of different faiths work together to act and collaborate for integral development and liberation of people
Dialogue of action
What Form of Dialogue is this?
Those who are specialists deepen each other’s religious heritages, and appreciate each other’s religious values
Dialogue of theological exchange
What Form of Dialogue is this?
Persons rooted in their own religious traditions, share their spiritual riches such as prayer and contemplation, faith and ways of searching for God
Dialogue of religious experience
