Religious Questions TERMS
Seven Dimensions TERMS
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Relgious Questions
Dimensions of Religion
100
the understanding of the nature of the universe
What is cosmology?
100
this experience of the divine or holy presence involves belief and/or trust
What is faith?
100
This religion is prominent in India.
What is Hinduism?
100
Reward, condemnation, and reincarnation are common responses to this religious question.
What is our destiny?
100
A pilgrimage, worship, and holy days are all forms of this dimension of religion.
What is ritual?
200
This type of religion holds a belief in God OR multiple gods.
What is theistic religion?
200
a story that tends to answer questions of origins and serves as a source of sacred truh
What is a myth?
200
This religion has dense populations in specific cities throughout the world, such as Jerusalem, New York, and Chicago.
What is Judaism?
200
Spiritual maturity is closely related with this religious question.
What is spiritual perfection?
200
This dimension includes architecture, sacred places in nature, and sacred symbols and icons.
What is material?
300
transmission of divine will or knowledge to human beings, usually through myths/religious experience
What is revelation?
300
the apostles' creed is an example of this religious dimension term
What is doctrine?
300
parts of northern and southern China practice this religion
What is Buddhism?
300
Organic, non-living, real, illusory... are possible responses to this religious question.
What is the nature of the world?
300
This dimension involves both communities and hierarchies of leadership.
What is social?
400
belief that the divine reality exists in EVERYthing (not one or many gods)
What is pantheism?
400
this deals with how we are to act while living in the world
What is ethics?
400
Which two religions are located mainly in northern Africa, the former U.S.S.R., and the Middle East?
What are Sunni and Shia?
400
Monotheism, polytheism, and pantheism are theistic beliefs relating to this relgious question.
What is ultimate reality?
400
This dimension includes the belief system of the religious, such as a creed.
What is doctrinal?
500
the overcoming of the normal limitations imposed by the human condition
What is transcendence?
500
a unique type of religious experience characterized by communing with the divine through inward contemplation
What is mysticism?
500
Which religion is most common in Russia?
What is Eastern Orthodox?
500
This question often addresses topics such as human origins and suffering.
What is the human condition?
500
This aspect of religion relates to an individual’s encounter with God or the ultimate mystery of life.
What is experiential?
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