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MyReligion Lab Ch1
Key Terms
Question | Answer |
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absolutist | Believing in one's received traditions 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 symboles to convey abstract ideas. |
atheism | Belief that there is no deity. |
awakening | Full awareness of invisible Reality. |
charisma | Magnetic attraction, a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders. |
comparative religion | A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions |
Creationism | Belief that all life was created by God. |
dogma | Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions. |
enlightenment | Wisdom that is though tot 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 perceived as the historical form of one's religion. |
gnosis | Intuitive knowledge of spiritual values |
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 that seem to be beyond chance or evolutionary process. |
liberal | Taking a flexible, nondogmatic approach |
metaphysics | Philosophy based on theories of subtle realities that transcend the physical world. |
monotheism | Belief that there is only one true deity. |
mysticism | The intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limits of reason. |
myth | A symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual theory. |