Exam 2

Question 1

theodicy

Answer 1

explanation of presence and purpose of evil

Question 2

omniscience

Answer 2

all knowing

Question 3

omnipotence

Answer 3

all powerful

Question 4

omnibenevolence

Answer 4

all good

Question 5

what happened in the story of Job?

Answer 5

text from the Tanak.
Job is
there are two versions of the story

Question 6

theodicy in earlier story of Job

Answer 6

all written in poetry
he loses everything in the beginning of the story
in the end God said why are you questioning me (no real reason for suffering)

Question 7

theodicy in later story of Job

Answer 7

redacted version(its been changed)
God and Satan meet and agree to test Job by making him suffer, but he gets everything back in the end
the theodicy is that suffering is a test and if you pass you'll be blessed

Question 8

traditional christian theodicy

Answer 8

developed by Augustine of Hippo
creation-fall-redemtpion
-god created the world perfectly
-fall of man(origin of suffering) is from Adam and eve
-redemption starts with Jesus and when you get saved and god will make the world perfect again in the future

Question 9

John hick

Answer 9

3 PROBLEMS W CHRISTIAN THEODICY

1. scientific- if suffering began with people, then it can’t be older than people
2. moral - god punishes the innocent
3. logic- arises out of nothing/creates itself or is created by god but if god created perfect beings then how can they mess up?t

Question 10

irenaean theodicy

Answer 10

developed by Irenaus (Vale of Soul Making)

• two stages of creation - evolution and solution to scientific problem
• people are still in the process of creation

Question 11

Siddhartha Gautama

Answer 11

not conceived by sex(when mom was fasting)
he was a prince
he was destined to be the “turner of the wheel”
-political power or spiritual power and his dad wanted him to be a great king so never let him outside the palace and made sure he never suffered

Question 12

4 sights of the Buddha

Answer 12

1. aging
2. sickness
3. death
4. ascetic(neglect needs or pleasures for religious life)

Question 13

4 noble truths

Answer 13

1. life is suffering
2. suffering is from desire
3. suffering will cease if desire ceases
4. desire ceased through eightfold path

Question 14

impermanence

Answer 14

no atman

Question 15

nirvana

Answer 15

liberation comes from forgetting the self

Question 16

Theravada

Answer 16

“Way of the Elders”

• 125 million followers
• most conservative
• arhat- extinguish desires and leave society
• read Pali Canon (oldest buddhist texts)

Question 17

Mahayana

Answer 17

185 million followers

-flexible orthodoxy

Question 18

tibetan buddhism

Answer 18

20 million followers
mantra-chant
mandala-religious art
mudra- hand gestures to enhance meditation
Dalai Lamad

Question 19

Kisagotami

Answer 19

her son died ad had to find a mustard seed on land where no one had died to Bring him back
she couldn’t find any
theodicy-suffering comes from desire, even good things
nothing is permanent

Question 20

just war

Answer 20

formulated by Augustine

Question 21

jus ad bellum

Answer 21

reason to go to war

Question 22

jus in bellum

Answer 22

just conduct once at war

Question 23

editors of First Things

Answer 23

think Christians should go to war and defend their neighbors against enemy attack

Question 24

Walter wink

Answer 24

believes nonviolence works
just war is an excuse
Jesus on nonviolence and nonresistance(turn the other cheek)

Question 25

sura 2

Answer 25

its okay to fight if you’re defending your faith
only fight with equal force
when persecution stops, you stop

Question 26

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Answer 26

led muslims in nonviolent protests against British

Question 27

Ghandi

Answer 27

nonviolence resistance

fearlessness

Question 28

Satyagraha

Answer 28

holding to truth/insistence on truth

strength from truth not physical force

Question 29

Cosmic War

Answer 29

absolute dichotomy - us vs them good vs evil
enemy must be destroyed
ongoing war/self fulfilling prophecy
symbolic war

Question 30

Grand Scenario

Answer 30

war that’s happening right now is small piece of war for fate of universe

Question 31

Mark Juergensmeyer

Answer 31

sociology professor

talks about cosmic war

Question 32

Sojourner Truth

Answer 32

born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree
escaped in 1826, freed in 1827
changed name in 1843
her speech “aren’t I a woman?”

Question 33

Frederick Douglass

Answer 33

born into slavery in Maryland
escaped 1838
AME preacher
talked about how the church is guilty of hypocrisy

Question 34

Stephen Eliott

Answer 34

episcopal bishop of Georgia
became bishop over all of episcopal church
god is on the side of the oppressed

Question 35

Stephen Elliott’s 3 arguments for slavery

Answer 35

1. historical- imposed upon us
2. missionary- rescued poor savages and made Christians out of them
3. Hamm theory- slaves make our food and take care of our babies if it was so bad we’d be dead

Question 36

MLK

Answer 36

born in ATL
graduated from Morehouse
influenced by Ghandi and Walter Rauschenbusch

Question 37

Dolores Williams

Answer 37

Womanist theology

Question 38

James Cone

Answer 38

black liberation theology
God is black and Christianity is black
black experience as a source of religious truth

Question 39

Elie Wiesel

Answer 39

born in Hungary
Holocaust survivor
wrote the novel Night

Question 40

Elie Wiesel theology and theodicy

Answer 40

humans must act on God’s behalf

If God could’ve stopped the Holocaust he would’ve

Question 41

dharma yuddha

Answer 41

means righteous war in Hinduism
war shouldn't be for selfish gain
equals fight equals
officially declare war
noncombatant immunity

Question 42

Bhagavad Gita

Answer 42

song of God(Krishna)
-Kauravas vs Pandevas
P=good
K=bad
Arjuna is the Pandeva prince and Krishna is his charioteer
Arjuna has to fight his family and Krishna tells him that the body doesn’t matter (atman) and so Arjuna said if the body doesn’t matter why go to war and Krishna said to do your dharma and have non attachment to the results of your action