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monotheism.
agnosticism.
atheism.
Question 3. 3.(TCO 2) Who was the German theologian who argued in The
Idea of the Holy that religions emerge when people experience that aspect
of reality which is essentially mysterious? (Points : 4)
William James
Rudolf Otto
E.B. Tylor
Rudolf Otto
William James
Wilhelm Schmidt
William James
Wilhelm Schmidt
guru.
ahimsa.
maya.
Question 9. 9.(TCO 10) The most accurate descriptor of Jainism is: (Points :
4)
polytheistic.
monotheistic.
atheistic.
nontheistic.
Question 10. 10.(TCO 8) According to the Buddha, his teachings must be:
(Points : 4)
accepted on faith.
experienced by oneself.
spread by missionaries.
Question 11. 11.(TCO 8) The Buddhist term for sorrow or suffering is:
(Points : 4)
dukkha.
tanha.
anatta.
anichcha.
Question 12. 12.(TCO 8) The Chinese word for "propriety," savoir faire,
"ritual" is: (Points : 4)
Ren (jen).
Wen.
Shu.
Li.
husband-wife.
father-son.
friend-friend.
become nameless.
an ox.
a butterfly.
a Daoist.
Question 16. 16.(TCO 5) All of the following minor religions are offshoots
of a major world religion except: (Points : 4)
Baha'i.
Jainism.
Sikhism.
Taoism.
Question 18. 18.(TCO 6) Someone inspired by God to speak for him was
called a: (Points : 4)
priest.
rabbi.
prophet.
king.
Question 19. 19.(TCO 6) The sacred core of the Hebrew Bible is called the:
(Points : 4)
Torah.
Talmud.
Writings.
Prophets.
Passover.
Purim.
Yom Kippur.
Question 21. 21.(TCO 7) The view that God's imminent divine judgment
and the end of the world is near is: (Points : 4)
messianism.
apocalypticism.
redemption.
schism.
Gospels.
Epistles.
Acts.
Revelations.
date grower.
caravan driver.
camel breeder.
Question 24. 24.(TCO 6) The month of fasting, the ninth month of the
Muslim calendar, is known as: (Points : 4)
Id al-Adha.
Kabah.
Ramadan.
Qur'an.
Question 25. 25.(TCO 12) The Baha'is found a messianic figure in: (Points :
4)
a young Persian aristocrat, Baha'u'llah.
an Ethiopian king.
a Jamaican farmer.
Question 1. 1.(TCO 4) Compare and contrast Carl Gustav Jung's theory about
the origin of religions with William James's theory. How do each of these
psychologists view religion (positively or negatively)? Next, analyze how the
insights of Jung or James might illuminate your religious tradition or the
tradition with which you are the most familiar. How would Jung or James
understand that tradition? Use specific examples to support your answer
(e.g., a specific belief or ritual).
(Points : 50)
2.(TCO 9) Identify and analyze the Three Marks of Reality; in particular,
concept of the no-soul doctrine. How do these differ from the Hindu concept
of reality? Include enough details to support your answer.
(Points : 50)
3.(TCO 3) Explain and evaluate Thomas Aquinas' Cosmological Argument for
the existence of God: The first and plainest is the method that proceeds from
the point of view of motion. It is certain and in accord with experience, that
things on earth undergo change. Now, everything that is moved is moved by
something; nothing, indeed, is changed, except it is changed to something
which it is in potentiality. Moreover, anything moves in accordance with
something actually existing; change itself, is nothing else than to bring forth
something from potentiality into actuality. Now, nothing can be brought from
potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing:
thus heat in action, as fire, makes fire-wood, which is hot in potentiality, to be
hot actually, and through this process, changes itself. The same thing cannot
at the same time be actually and potentially the same thing, but only in
regard to different things. What is actually hot cannot be at the same time
potentially hot, but it is possible for it at the same time to be potentially cold.
It is impossible, then, that anything should be both mover and the thing
moved, in regard to the same thing and in the same way, or that it should
move itself. Everything, therefore, is moved by something else. If, then, that
by which it is moved, is also moved, this must be moved by something still
different, and this, again, by something else. But this process cannot go on to
infinity because there would not be any first mover, nor, because of this fact,
anything else in motion, as the succeeding things would not move except
because of what is moved by the first mover, just as a stick is not moved
except through what is moved from the hand. Therefore it is necessary to go
back to some first mover, which is itself moved by nothing--and this all men
know as God.
Briefly explain and then evaluate this proof for the existence of God.
4.(TCO 11) Identify and analyze three basic patterns in indigeneous religions.
Use examples from African religions to support your answer.
(Points : 50)