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Chapter 1Response
vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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the Belief that if there is a divine being it is impossible for humans to known it | agnosticism |
the intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limit of reason | mysticism |
believing in a single god | monotheistic |
a symbolic story based on a symbol | myth |
perspective that says ultimate reality exists | faith |
spiritual reality without a personal deity | non theistic |
present in the world | immanent |
religions based on one's relationship with a divine being | theistic |
sacred accounts of the creation of the world | cosmogony |
a repeated, patterned religious act | rituals |
physical embodiment of the divine | incarnations |
there is no deity | atheism |
perspective that says humans invented religion | materialistic |
a system of belief declared to be true by a religion | dogma |
believing in many deities | polytheistic |
insistence on the adherence to the historical form of a religion | fundamentalist |
perspective that says religion is useful | punctuational |
adhere to the historical form of a religion | orthodox |