Religion Midterm

______________ first translated the bible into English

William Tyndale

Transubstantiation is __________

the belief that in communion the bread and wine become the literal flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.

Dawkins says religion is a ________

virus (it adapts and spreads to survive)

Othering is ___________________

the process by which someone's beliefs or practices make them other than normal

A motif is ___________________

a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.

The genre of the book of St Johns Revelations is ___________

apocalyptic epistle

Exegesis

The process by which you derieve meaning from a scared text

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are ___________________

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy

The final book of the new testament is _____________

The revelation of st john, or the book of revelations

Jesus is the Messiah for _____________

Christians and Muslims

The Hindu Holy Book is known as _______

BVG

Buddhism spread through the ____________________

silk road

Anthropomorphism is the act of ___________

imbuing things with human characteristics

Inerrancy is ____________

The belief that a sacred text is perfect and complete

Martin Luther was _________________

a catholic monk, a church reformer, and did not care for indulgences.

Gustavo Gutiérrez taught ______________

liberation theology

A shibboleth is __________________

a turn of phrase or a word that denotes your foreignness

The 5 point's of Calvinism's TULIP are:

Total depravity - All human beings were born horrible. 

Unconditional election - God chooses to save some people regardless of who they are. 

Limited atonement - When jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, jesus did not save everyone, jesus saved the elect. 
Irresistible grace - If God chooses to call you, you will have no choice but to listen to and follow God's grace. 

Persistence of saints - You will remain holy throughout the rest of your life.

Who were the Synoptic Gospels?

Matthew Mark and Luke had similar writings.

But John was writing some crazy stuff instead.

The first 4 books of the new Testament are _____________

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

A sacrament is _________

an action or word or thought with imbued meaning 

Asceticism is ____________

severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgences, typically for religious reasons. 

Pilgrims/puritans were _____________

ascetic and calvinist

A protestant is _______________

anyone who is not Roman Catholic or Orthodox

The Messiah is _______________

a leader that will make everything right

A paradigm shift is _____________

when the accepted order changes.

The Hebrew Bible is also known as the ________________

Pentateuch / Old Testament / Books of Moses

Historicity is ___________________

The value of how likely it is a story actually happened

Indulgences was ______________

the idea of paying a priest to cover for your sin.

Gentiles are _______________

"unclean" people, and anyone who is not Jewish is considered one

A denomination is _______________

a different way of practicing a religion.

3 examples of christian denominations: Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist

Holy is ____________

something that is set apart

The tenets of liberation theology are:

1. Material poverty is a moral evil.

2. Poverty is not caused by fate or a failure of a person - it is systemic.

3. Poverty leads to early and unjust death

What Marx said about religion: ___________

"Religion is the opiate of the masses"

The genre of the book of Romans is ___________

epistle

The new Testament was written in __________

greek

The difference between a contract and a covenant is that ________________

a covenant can be put back together if broken

A schism is ___________

a split in a religious group based off of theological differences

A taboo is ________________

an action or perspective that is not acceptable to society or a portion of society.

Theodicy is ____________

the question that if god is all powerful and all good, why do bad things happen to good people?