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Religious Language
Religious Experience
Areas of Philosophy
Faith and Reason
Arguments for God
100
The belief in a personal God who is creator of the world and with whom we may come into intimate contact.
What is theism?
100
An experience characterized by mystery, awe, bliss, and infinite dependence
What is a numinous experience?
100
The area of philosophy that studies the rules of correct reasoning.
What is logic?
100
The claim that we should accept a belief-system only if we can prove it to be true.
What is strong rationalism?
100
An argument which argues from the definition of "God" that God must exist.
What is the ontological argument?
200
The belief that everything is God and God is everything.
What is pantheism?
200
An awareness of something which exists and which is a cause of the awareness
What is perception?
200
The area of philosophy that studies moral issues and the good life.
What is ethics?
200
The claim that religious beliefs are not subject to rational evaluation.
What is fideism?
200
An argument that infers a First Cause or a First Mover for the universe.
What is a cosmological argument?
300
A God who is outside of and beyond the universe and time
What is transcendent?
300
If something seems to be true, it probably is, unless we have reason to think otherwise.
What is the principle of credulity?
300
The area of philosophy that studies knowledge.
What is epistemology?
300
A philosopher who says that, if a statement cannot be proved true or false, it is meaningless.
What is a logical positivist?
300
An argument which claims that the universe shows evidence of purposeful design
What is a teleological argument?
400
Using words about God with meanings similar to their ordinary usage.
What is analogical?
400
Justified true belief
What is knowledge?
400
The area of philosophy that is concerned with what is real.
What is metaphysics?
400
The argument that believing in God is a good bet, considering the possible outcomes.
What is Pascal's Wager?
400
An imperfect being like me could not have the idea of a perfect being if a perfect being did not exist.
What is Rene Descartes' ontological argument?
500
The belief that all we can say about God is what he is not.
What is apophatic theology?
500
The experience of a union with the divine ground of all existence.
What is mystical experience?
500
The rational study of religious beliefs by scholars committed to those beliefs.
What is theology?
500
Someone who will examine his/her beliefs and those of others for logical consistency and agreement with known facts.
What is a critical rationalist?
500
Existence is not a property of things.
What is Kant's objection to the ontological argument?