Exam 3: God

Religions such as Christianity,Islam,Buddhism,Zoroastrianism,and Confucianism all trace themselves back to a single person who is their founder.

The Christian conception of the incarnation of God as human,and the idea of a Holy Spirit that infuses us all,both assume

One thing that all religions do seem to have in common is the general sensibility that we call spirituality,the feeling that we are part of something much greater than ourselves.

Suppose that Anne believes in God,but like Voltaire,she has a deist conception of God.What then does Anne believe about God?

What does Marx mean when he says "religion is the opium of the people?"

One of the things that makes rituals and traditions of primary,and not merely,secondary importance to religious practitioners is

Theodicies are any attempt at showing that the existence of God is compatible with the existence of evil.

Hegel paints a dynamic and complex picture of God,in which we humans are essentially

When Freud calls religion an illusion he means is that it

Regarding religious tolerance,we seem to have two options: Either

The fact that religion is usually thought to be a matter of belief and not a kind of knowledge that can be proven means that religious arguments have limits.

Beginning with Sigmund Freud,psychiatrists have defined irrationality only as believing what cannot reasonably be believed.

The appearance of the Virgen de Guadalupe to a poor Indian named Juan Diego at the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City,is an example of

Immanuel Kant challenges the ontological argument's second premise which states that

What,precisely,is the problem of evil? Give two examples of events (real or fictional)that might raise this problem for religious believers.One should involve nonmoral evil,and the other should involve moral evil. Be careful to explain how these two kinds of evil are different. Draw on three of the theodicies,or solutions to the problem of evil,developed in this chapter,and show how they address this problem. How does each solution meet,or fail to meet,the challenge of explaining both kinds of evil? Which of these theodicies is the most convincing,and which is the least convincing,and why?

How does the religious perspective of pantheism make the question "Do you believe in God?" confusing?

The Egyptian philosopher Akhnaton and American philosopher Charles Hartshorne both believed that God was constantly self-creating.

If,as process philosophy says,God is constantly creating himself and the universe as well,then this means that

According to the story of the Book of Job,

To say that mystical experiences are "ineffable" is to say that