Search For Meaning Flashcards
Outline the aspect of Myths and Stories
Myths and stories encapsulate (summarise) religious beliefs in an understandable and memorable form.
Outline the aspect of religious belief
Beliefs express and provide fundamental patterns of meaning about the purpose of life and the other ‘big,’ existential questions as well as forming a framework to guide believers towards to the ‘highest’ actions.
Outline Sacred Texts and other religious writings
These are religious writings that hold special (divine) authority within in tradition. They provide meaning and are often used in religious rituals.
Outlines the aspect of rituals
Consciously repeatable, special actions and behaviours performed by the adherents of a tradition that relate to a belief. They are often central to the identity of a religious tradition.
Outline the aspect of symbols
Images or other representations that point beyond themselves to a deeper meaning relating to religious beliefs.
Outline the aspect of social structure
Social structure is how the people within a religious tradition relate to each and wider society. This includes organisation, leadership and particular roles in relation to the tradition and wider society.
Outline the aspect of ethics and codes of behaviour.
Rules and regulations for behaviour (how a person acts) that outline how an adherent of a tradition can act in a moral manner and the values that underline such decision making. They give guidance to the lives of adherent of a religious tradition
Outline the aspect of religious experience and spirituality
The characteristic ways of thinking in the light of religious belief, the thought of adherents as they experience the works and contemplate the ultimate, existential questions.
What is the search for meaning?
How do religious traditions contribute to the search for meaning?
What do these systems of belief encompass?
Across time and cultures, humanity has sought to understand the why and how of existence. In this quest humans have consistently posed big questions of life such as: Where did we come from? Is there someone or something greater than us – an ultimate reality? What is the purpose of our existence? How should we live? Why do we die? Is there anything beyond death? In response to this quest for meaning, religions have developed systems of belief that have offered ways of establishing meaning and purpose – not only for human existence but also for all that exists. Such religious beliefs have also attempted to explain the nature of relationships between humans, between humans and the rest of the natural world, and between humans and ultimate reality.
What are the beliefs of the religious tradition you have studied in regards to ultimate reality?
God is benelovent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, interventionist. God is trinitarian, that is God consists of three god-persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and as such is inherently positively relational.
What are the beliefs of the religious tradition you have studied in regards to the nature and purpose of human life? How are these beliefs expressed through the various aspects?
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What are the beliefs of the religious tradition you have studied in regards to the meaning of life and death? How are these beliefs expressed through the various aspects?
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What are the beliefs of the religious tradition you have studied in regards to the relationship between ultimate reality and humanity? How are these beliefs expressed through the various aspects?
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What are the beliefs of the religious tradition you have studied in regards to the relationship between humans? How are these beliefs expressed through the various aspects?
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What are the beliefs of the religious tradition you have studied in regards to the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world? How are these beliefs expressed through the various aspects?
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