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Religious Responses
Key terms from chapter one of Fisher's "Living Religions".
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absolutist | Believing in one's own religion as completely and exclusively true. |
| agnosticism | Belief that if there is anything beyond this life, it is impossible for humans to know it. |
| allegory | Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas. |
| atheism | Belief that there is no deity. |
| awakening | Full awareness of an invisible reality. |
| charisma | Magnetic attraction, a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders. |
| comparitive religion | A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions. |
| Creationism | Belief that all life was created by God. |
| Darwinism | Belief that life evolved by biological processes such as natural selection. |
| dogma | Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions. |
| enlightenment | Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality. |
| exclusivism | Belief that one's own tradition is the only true religion and that others are invalid. |
| fundamentalism | Insistence on what is percieved as the historical form of one's religion. |
| gnosis | Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities. |
| heretic | One whose assertions about religion are considered false by his or her religious institution. |
| immanent | Present in the visible world. |
| incarnation | Physical embodiment of the divine. |
| intelligent design | Theory that scientific discoveries prove the existence of an all-encompassing Designer, since they reveal complexities beyond chance or evolutionary process. |
| liberal | Taking a flexible, non-dogmatic approach. |
| metaphysics | Philosophy based on theories of subtle realities that transcend the physical world. |
| monotheism | Belief that there is only one deity. |
| mysticism | The intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limits of reason. |
| myth | A symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual history. |
| orthodox | Strictly standing by recieved traditions. |
| phenomenology | Study of religious practices to comprehend their meaning for their practitioners. |
| polytheism | Belief that there are many deities. |
| profane | Worldly, secular, as opposed to sacred. |
| realisation | Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality. |
| redaction | Editing and organisation of a religion's scriptures. |
| religion | A particular response to dimensions of life considered sacred, as shaped by institutionalised traditions. |
| ritual | Repeated, patterned religious act. |
| sacred | The realm of the extraordinary, beyond everyday perceptions, the supernatural, holy. |
| scientific materialism | Belief that only the material world exists and that the supernatural is only imagined by humans. |
| spirituality | Any personal response to dimensions of life that are considered sacred. |
| symbol | Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept. |
| theism | Belief in a deity or deities. |
| transcendent | Spiritual reality that exists apart from the material universe. |
| universalism | Acceptance that truth may be found in all religions. |
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