TESP 71

Question 1

Borgeault mystical path

Answer 1

shifting perspective on life because you drop from ordinary awareness to spiritual awareness.

Question 2

3 stages of Borgeault

Answer 2

ordinary, spiritual (internal compass fixed towards God), divine (innermost level)

Question 3

role of centering prayer

Answer 3

reconnection with our inner life. inner awakening, waiting to be reoriented back to God

Question 4

cloud of unknowing

Answer 4

no post it notes, nakedness, very apophatic

Question 5

how does God reveal God to beargeault?

Answer 5

on Gods time, human has been putting in the work to see

Question 6

does augustine have a negative or positive view on the body

Answer 6

negative,we cannot love as God loves due to original sin

Question 7

does union with God mean that we can only do God’s will?

Answer 7

love and do what you will –> you are more likley to do gods will because you have gods love flowing through you

Question 8

how is augustine’s path healing?

Answer 8

finding god inside while also ascending beyond oneself. transcended with love which transformed suffering

Question 9

PD’s negative view of God

Answer 9

divine super essence, darkness of the Godhead, deepest mode of knowing God is in the dark

Question 10

PD’s positive view of God

Answer 10

God’s love is so powerful it can loosen post it notes, god is perfection

Question 11

intellect vs love PD

Answer 11

love is above intellect and reason.

Question 12

how and why is language and darkness and not knowing PDs ultimate explanation of how to achieve union with god

Answer 12

god is above everything. we have to escape our mind by leaving intellect behind and reach to god

Question 13

how might getting beyond concepts be healing?

Answer 13

going beyond concepts results in pure serenity

Question 14

greco roman belief

Answer 14

promise of immortality in the next world to receive suffering from this one

Question 15

origen beliefs

Answer 15

live as if you were dead, elitism, body is an obstacle, ride yourself of passions

Question 16

clement of alexandria

Answer 16

feminine attributes of god, mystical knowledge of god is given by god to those who have prepared themselves

Question 17

st anthony the great

Answer 17

desert mothers and fathers, braiding a rope is the answer, suffering leads to contact with diety

Question 18

plato beliefs

Answer 18

body is the sole reason to suffer, prison of the mind, live as though you were dead

Question 19

gnostics beliefs

Answer 19

hates the body and human nature in an effort to blame an outside source

Question 20

philo beliefs

Answer 20

only the pure can hear God in scripture, finding deity in the sacred book, elitism

Question 21

paul beliefs

Answer 21

questioned if everyone is contacting god, what will happen if people get different messages?, he made his experiences the primary ones

Question 22

Donatism

Answer 22

if the priest who gives the sacraments sins, the sacrament never happened, holy spirit creates the bonds of sacrament not humans

Question 23

Pelagianism

Answer 23

people can be perfect without God, people can be connected with God on their own