BIOS 390 Exam 1 Study

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BIOS 390 Exam 1 Study

• What did Anthony DeMello (1931-1987) write?

–Answer "Awareness" talked about spirituality as waking up mindfullness and being intentional

• What did Roger Haight write about spirituality?

–Answer "Spiritual and Religious Ex- ploration for Seekers"

• spirituality is something everyone has
• spirituality is the way people live their lives in relation to the ultimate
• spirituality comes from lived experiences
• Haight said spirituality comes before

–Answer religion and theology (but he thought theology/religion would naturally come from spirituality)

• what are the 3 branches of philosophy and their definitions?

–Answer

• *metaphysics*

= study of the nature of being itself (why are you here?) (above the physical)

• *epistemology* = study of how we know what we know
• *ethics* = girl you know that
• McBrien's definition of belief

–Answer "a formulation of the knowledge we have of God through faith"

• Although "higher power" can be comforting, what is a strict traditional theological critique

of that expression?–Answer It puts God on a scale with other things which implies the God has a location in reality. 1 / 2

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• What is writing is Paley known for?

–Answer the Watchmaker analogy

• What does the watchmaker analogy say?

–Answer That complex things implies a design which implies a designer (support for creationism)

• What is mediation?

–Answer how transcendence becomes known to the world, possibility that God could be understood through "mediator" (ex –Answer nature)

• Why is belief different from faith?

–Answer faith is a personal knowledge of god. faith is needed for belief because belief is all the knowledge of god together (feel free to edit this one guys)

• what are the 3 definitions of evolution?

–Answer

• "descent with modification"
• all organisms came from one single common ancestor
• change over time of heritable traits/characteristics
• what is meant by literal interpretations?

–Answer interpret something as word for word true

• what is meant by transcendent?

–Answer god's place in reality, which isn't a spatial location it is beyond

• what is one key word from Haight's definition of spirituality?

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