REL midterm Flashcards
What are the two kinda of judgment
Existential: facts, origin, nature
Spiritual: value, meaning
Pragmatism
Practical what difference does It Make what the outcome is
Medical materialism
Ppl who have extreme religious experience where look at medical conditions and can explain through biology
Religion by James
Feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine
Reality of the unseen
Reacting to something not material.. A thought, presence
Abstract ideas can be more real to us. Plato
Rationalism
All our beliefs ought ultimately to find for themselves articulate grounds
Mysticism
Can enter states of conscious outside the body
Once born healthy mindedness
Natural, systematic- ignore evil
They look on bright side and acknowledge good and bad
Twice born sick souls
Either believe evil is frame of mind or part of our nature. More pessimistic and don’t know what point of life is
Saintliness
Collective name
For the ripe fruits of religion
Qualities of santliness
Asceticism
Strength of soul
Purity
Charity
Neurotheology
Using neural imaging technologies to examine the brains of meditators
CSR
Explains Features of religious experiences, beliefs, and practices by appealing to the functions of evolved human thought processes
Protestantism
Denies universal authority of the pop
State of holiness
The experience of sanctification or second blessing
Possible to live free of voluntary sin through second work of grace
