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Founder of
Christianity
Jesus- Joshua (hebrew) meaning savior "Christ"- meaninganointedone or mesiah Jesus and the 12 disciples began as a cult and developed into a sect Crucified by Rome TERM 2
Founder of Buddhism
DEFINITION 2 Prince Siddhartha Gautama of Sakyas (the Budha) "Budh" meaning awake Died by eating bad, dry boars meat (thankful because he can enter nervana) TERM 3
Four Passing Sites
DEFINITION 3 Old Man Sick Man Dead Man Monk TERM 4
Four Noble Truths
DEFINITION 4 Life is suffering The cause of suffering is desire To end suffering, avoid desires To avoid desires follow the 8 fold path TERM 5
The 8 fold path
DEFINITION 5 Right View Right Intention Right Speech Right Action Right Livelihood Right Effort Right Mindfulness Right Concentration
- Middle way between path of desire and path of renunciation
Three Jewels of the Budha (refuges)
Refuge in the Buddha Refuge in the Dharma (teachings) Refuge in the Sangha (community of monks) TERM 7
3 Marks of Existence
DEFINITION 7 Impermanence-anica Existence in suffering (dukkha) No soul or atman *No sense of fixed identity, nothing lasts. TERM 8
Mahayana
DEFINITION 8 Great Raft TERM 9
Theravada
DEFINITION 9 Little Raft TERM 10
Nervana
DEFINITION 10 To cool by blowing.Release of greed, hatred, and delusion.Buddha says it isunimaginable.
Five Fundamental Relationahips
Children look up to their parents Wife looks up to husband Younger sibling looks up to older sibling Younger friend looks up to older fried Subject looks up to ruler *All must be worthy to look up to TERM 17
Founder of Judaism
DEFINITION 17 Archaic (no founder) TERM 18
Four Types of Hebrew Literature
DEFINITION 18 Pentateuch/Torah- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,Deuteronomy Historical Books-Joshua through Esther Poetry & Wisdom-Job, Psalms, Song of Songs Prophetic writings TERM 19
Four threads of authorship in the Torah
DEFINITION 19 J= Jahwist E= Elohist D= Deuteronnomist P= Priestly TERM 20
613 Commandments
DEFINITION 20 Jewish-365 prohibitions (1 per day)-248 positive (1 for each limb of the human body)
Four Gospels in order
Matthew 70 C.E.Mark 65 C.E.Luke 70 C.E.John 90 C.E. TERM 22
Five Modes of Truth
DEFINITION 22 Conventional- common knowledge Correspondence- proposition correctly refers to reality Coherence- relationship between facts, ideas, experiences and beliefs Contextual- Appear to be true depending on context Alethia- revelation, a light comes on TERM 23
Five Pillars of Islam
DEFINITION 23 Shahadah- Unity of God/ Confessions of faith Prayer/Salat- 5x day, washing before Charity/Alms- 2 1/2% of everything Fasting/Ramadan- Birth of Qur'an, sundown meal Pilgrimidge/Hadj to Mecca TERM 24
3 Main branches of
Christianity
DEFINITION 24 Roman CatholicEastern OrthodoxProtestant TERM 25
Founder of Islam
DEFINITION 25 Mohammed, meaning "highly praised" Born in 570 C.E. in Mecca
Jewish Tetragrammaton
YHWHI am who I am becoming. TERM 32
Smith's two parts of the Comparative Study of
Religion
DEFINITION 32 History of religion/religions Comparing of other truths TERM 33
Founder of Hinduism
DEFINITION 33 No founder (archaic)
