Themes for the final Flashcards
1
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The Dhammapada
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- mara (earthly attachment)
- yama (death) –> stuck in a cycle
- nirvana
- watchfulness
- the mind (resisting its fickle nature)
2
Q
The Therigatha
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- freedom is renunciation of sensory pleasure
- the body chains you
- women’s spiritual experience
3
Q
Genesis
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- obedience to God
- sacrifice
- divine and secular promises
4
Q
Book of Joshua
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- territoriality
- claiming possession for divinity
- violence
- religious conversion
- god’s chosen people (israel and judah)
5
Q
Book of Isaiah
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- social critique of what has become of israel and judah
- prophecy (predicts downfall of israel)
- god is telling me you all need to fix yourselves
6
Q
Ecclesiastes
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- futility
- inevitability of death
- enjoy simple pleasures
- right time for everything
- cyclical time (everything has already happened)
7
Q
Book of Esther
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- pride
- persecution of the jews
- feminine agency
8
Q
Gospel of John
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- rupture with judaism
- christianity seen as a religion opposed to the law
- jesus as the human and the divine
- john’s faith (does not need any evidence to believe in jesus)
9
Q
Romans
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- christ is an event
- faith in god is more important than “works”
- orthodoxy vs orthopraxy
- righteousness comes from god
- universal god
10
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The Confessions
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- immateriality of god (god is existence)
- evil is the absence of god
- pure evil is nothingness
