Final Exams Flashcards
(24 cards)
Prophet
- Someone who hears the words of God and speaks them back to everyone else as the sacred scriptures
- Messenger
- one who speaks for God
Allah
Literally means “the God” Not a god, for there is only one.
Shahadah
Islam’s creed or confession of faith “There is no God but God, Mohammad is his prophet”
Islam
- The peace that comes through the submission to God
* from the root words for surrender or submission and peace.
Revelation
- God alone knows all things and some things ( perhaps even the most important) can only be known if God revels them to us.
- disclosure
Mitzvot
Commandments
Shaman
Sage or spiritual chieftan (medicine man/woman) who through rituals can reach altered states of consciousness in order to interact directly with spirits and channel their power
Incarnation
One person, two natures
God the son enters history as a human being in order to reunite us with God
Monotheism
Doctrine that there is only one God
Atonement
At-one-ment
The story or theory about how Christs life, work, death and resurrection unites us with God.
Sacraments
Visible signs of invisible grace
- communion or the Lords supper
- bread and wine symbolizes the body and blood
Animism
The view that all existing things possess a soul or spirit
Exclusivism
One true religion and anyone who does not accept it cannot be saved
Inclusivism
One religion is more true than the others(so that is the best path) but others may be saved as well
Pluralism
No religion is more true than any other. All are effective paths to salvation
Ghaflah
Forgetfulness
Polytheism
More than one God or many Gods
Pantheism
One God with the universe; impersonal
Ex. Brahman, Tao
Naturalism
the doctrine that all religious truth is derived from a study of natural processes and not from revelation.
Many and impersonal
Theosis
Union with God
Imago Dei
Image of God
Messiah
Anointed or the chosen one
Sabbath
Day for prayer or rest
Sin
Transgression of divine law
