Unit 3 Outcome 3 Significant Life Experiences And Religious Beliefs Flashcards
How do significant life experiences and religious beliefs impact each other?
Religious beliefs can be reformulated, abolished, reaffirmed or gained through significant life experiences and religious beliefs influence how a persons outlook on life and the experiences they are presented with.
What is a significant life experience?
A significant life experience is a defining moment in ones life and it changes a persons outlook on the world around them. Eg: loss of a loved one, war, finding love, finding/losing religious belief etc
Who was C.S Lewis and what were some of his significant life experiences?
C.S Lewis was an author that had a brother, mother and a father. At a young age his mother died and this event took a massive Toulon his religious belief. From that point on his religious views were scattered due to events such as war. Destruction of his imagination, death of his wife for the bad. And the meeting of Tolkien and eventually finding his faith and becoming a Anglican.
Describe the Anglican traditions belief in God.
There is only one God. God created the universe and all living things. God is trinitarian. The resurrection of Jesus Gods son. The existence of heaven. Jesus’ death offers forgiveness of sins. Human beings are flawed. God is good.
Discuss the way C.S Lewis’s belief in God impacted his view on life and it’s significant life experiences.
His belief in God was one of disbelief and made his outlook on life poor and saddened, even though he said he believed there was no God however he blamed God for everything that happened in his life and what was wrong with the world. He also had the belief that God is the source of ‘love’ or ‘joy’ and that God provides that ‘joy’ for humans even in times of suffering (obtained from his meeting with Joy and his marriage to her). Though time wavered between the belief in God as good and God as cruel.
Discuss ways that C.S Lewis’s significant life experience caused him to reinterpret/reaffirm his belief in God. *******
Throughout his life C.S Lewis was faced with many hardships that caused him disbelief in God such as participation in the war, death of loved ones and the destruction of his imagination. However with his meeting
