Religion 1 and Religion 2 Flashcards
There is a wide diversity of beliefs. This makes religion…
Hard to define.
Religion is approximately equal to ___.
Metaphysics.
Roughly __% of Canadians and Americans are teleologists.
95.
Roughly __% of Canadians and Americans are anti-evolutionists.
50.
“The intention is to ___, rather than to pass judgement, on the phenomena of religion.” -Ninian Smart
Describe.
Who is known as “The Dean” of the modern study of religion?
Ninian Smart.
What is the phenomenological method?
To describe rather than to pass judgement.
Who said that “Evolution is the creation-myth of our age?”
Mary Midgley.
“Evolution is the ___ ___ of our age.” -Mary Midgley
Creation-myth.
What is the professional meaning of myth?
Not that it is a false story, but that it shapes our views of what we ultimately are.
“We as religious people asking spiritual questions have tied to see ___ our senses.” -Ninian Smart
Beyond.
Who said that dysteleological people are also religious?
Ninian Smart.
What are the six dimensions in Smart’s “Six Dimensional Organism?”
- Ritual.
- Mythological.
- Doctrinal.
- Ethical.
- Social.
- Experiential.
Who said that “Religion is the opium of the people?”
Karl Marx. It isn’t William Tremmel, so if you guessed that, you’re wrong.
What did William Tremmel come up with?
Religion is a Crutch or Drug theory.
Who would most likely agree with the statement “religion prepares us for psychological pain?”
William Tremmel.
What is Terror Management Theory?
We are painfully aware of our own mortality, and we manage this painful awareness through our worldview and our practice of it.
“The traditional conception of philosophy, which was dominant throughout history of Western thought was that philosophy can investigate the content of our beliefs, including the ___ ___ ___ of theological beliefs.” -Peterson et al
Truth or falsity.
Who are the “philosophers of religion?”
Peterson et al. Philosophers is plural, that should be a dead giveaway that it’s not Clouser.
According to Peterson et al, what are the 5 features of religion? Identify the most important one.
- Beliefs.
- Actions.
- Emotions.
- Personal & corporate.
- Ultimate reality (most important).
“Logic requires that religious trust can be either well placed or misplaced as can nonreligious trust, since beliefs about the divine are— as all other beliefs— either ___ ___ ___ but not both at once. It follows, therefore, that when two beliefs disagree about what is divine, one or both of them must be (at least partly) false.” -Clouser.
True or false.
Under ___’s definition of religion, some beliefs can be wrong.
Clouser.
What are Clouser’s 2 types of trust?
- Religious.
2. Non-religious.
What are Clouser’s 2 types of trust that can be misplaced?
- Blind faith.
2. Blind unbelief.
“A religious belief is any belief in something or other as divine. ‘Divine’ means having the status of not depending on anything else…All [religions] believe that the divine is whatever is ‘___ ___.’” -Clouser.
Just there.
What are core beliefs and secondary beliefs, according to Clouser?
Core beliefs are statements about the Divine, while secondary beliefs are about how to be in a proper relationship with the Divine.
“Pantheistic traditions insist that what is wrong with people is their attachment to the illusory word as it is encountered in ordinary experience by reason…___ ___, they say, fails to recognize that logical thinking is also part of the everyday world of illusion.” -Clouser
Logical criticism.
A pagan believes that…
The divine is some force within the universe (non-divine).
Someone who believes in nature religions is a ___ ___.
Ritualist pagan.
A pantheist believes that…
Everything is the divine.
What is an idealistic pantheist?
Someone who believes that the physical universe is an illusion.
What is a naturalistic pantheist?
Someone who believes that the physical universe is the only reality.
Give an example of the most famous naturalistic pantheist.
Albert Einstein.
Realism, transcendence, ordinance, Creatio Ex Nihilo, temporality, dependence, sustenance, omnipotence, revelatory, intelligibility, and goodness are…
The 11 features of the Doctrine of Creation.
Realism is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
Creation is not illusion, but is real.
Transcendence is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
The Creator is separate from creation.
Ordinance is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
The Creator created the universe, not as a mistake.
Creatio Ex Nihilo is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
The Creator created the world out of nothing.
Temporality is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
Creation has a beginning and an end.
Dependence is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
Creation is dependent on the Creator.
Sustenance is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
Creation is sustained by the Creator.
Omnipotence is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
The Creator is all powerful.
Revelatory is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
Creation reveals general characteristics of the Creator.
Intelligibility is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
Creation is understandable by humans.
Goodness is a feature of the Doctrine of Creation. What is it?
The Creator made creation good.
The last 11 cards or so were grammatically incorrect. Do I care?
No, absolutely not (just click 5 and you should only see this card once or twice).
“That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is, I say, really your ___.” -Martin Luther
God.
Who said that everyone has a metaphysic, making the statement “nearly everyone is religious” true?
Immanual Kant.
“That the human mind will ever give up metaphysical researches is as little to be expected as that we, to avoid inhaling impure air, should prefer to give up breathing altogether. There will therefore always be ___ in the world.” -Kant.
Metaphysics.
On the midterm, you will get a fill-in-the blank with two missing spots for the diagram on H10. One will be to fill in a missing word, and the other will be to give an example.
Religious beliefs are split into 2 main categories: teleological and dystelological, Teleological is split into 3 categories: divine being, divine universe, and divine force. There are 2 divisions of each of these categories.
What is the two major categories that religious/metaphysical beliefs can be separated into?
Teleological and dysteleological.
Give an example of someone who holds dysteleological beliefs.
Richard Dawkins, or 5% of the Canadian and American population.
Teleological beliefs can be separated into 3 categories: what are they?
Divine being, divine universe, and divine force.
Divine being is a teleological belief that can be separated into 2 categories. What are they?
Theism and deism.
Give examples of theism.
JXI.
Give examples of deism.
Darwin, Kant.
Divine universe is a teleological belief that can be separated into 2 categories. What are they?
Idealist and naturalist.
Give an example of idealist pantheist.
Buddhism.
Give an example of naturalist pantheist.
Einstein.
Divine force is a teleological belief that can be separated into 2 categories. What are they?
Singular and plural (dualism).
Give an example of a singular pagan.
Fate.
Give an example of a plural (dualist) pagan.
Yin and Yang.
What is the most important hermeneutical principle in science and religion?
Accommodation.
What is accommodation in science religion dialogue?
Adapting Spiritual truths to the human level in order to be understood.
What is an example of accommodation?
Jesus using mustard seeds in a parable, and calling them the smallest of all seeds on the earth.
What are the 4 arguments for accommodation?
- Incarnation.
- Parables.
- Personal prayer.
- Pedagogical/teaching.
