Belief that if there is anything beyond this life it is impossible for humans to know it.
What is Agnosticism?
100
Strictly standing by received traditions.
What is Orthodox
100
Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.
What is Dogma?
100
A symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual history.
What is a myth?
100
Insistence on what is perceived as the historical form of one’s religion.
What is Fundamentalism?
200
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.
What is Intelligent Design?
200
Full awareness of invisible Reality.
What is Awakening?
200
Physical embodiment of the divine.
What is Incarnation?
200
Repeated, patterned religious act.
What is a ritual?
200
Belief that one’s own tradition is the only true religion and that others are invalid.
What is Exclusivism?
300
Belief that only the material world exists and that the supernatural is only imagined by humans.
What is Scientific Materialism?
300
Present in the visible world.
What is Immanent?
300
Magnetic attraction, a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders
What is charisma?
300
Belief that there is only one deity.
What is monotheism?
300
Belief that all life was created by God.
What is Creationism?
400
Belief that there is no deity
What is Atheism?
400
Believing in one’s received traditions as completely and exclusively true.
What is Absolutist?
400
A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions.
What is comparative religion?
400
Editing and organization of a religion’s scriptures.
What is redaction?
400
Taking a flexible, nondogmatic approach.
What is liberal?
500
Belief in a deity or deities
What is Theism?
500
Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
What is Enlightenment?
500
Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.
What is allegory?
500
The realm of the extraordinary, beyond everyday perceptions, the supernatural, holy.