------------------------------------------------- WORLD RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS – MI 412 – Spring 2013 MI 412-1‚ 2 Office: Sweeting 138 Dr. Liz Lightbody Appointments: Sign up on bulletin Phone: 4421 board outside of my office Elizabeth.lightbody@moody.edu I. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is a study of selected world religious systems for the perspective of the participants. An examination of beliefs‚ practices‚ and worldview‚ which lead to a particular religious expression‚ will be
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‘Religious experience can be used as evidence for the existence of God’ A religious experience is an encounter with God when you experience transcendent reality and it you cannot will it to happen. A direct religious experience refers to events where God reveals him/herself directly to the person having the experience. The experience is not chose or willed by the person; the person experiences or observes God in some way. An indirect religious experience refers to experiences‚ thoughts or feelings
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“The verification principle offers no real challenge to religious belief.” Discuss [35] The verification principle is a significant concept used by many philosophers in order to determine whether a religious statement is meaningful or not. This was highly influenced by logical positivism: group of 20th century philosophers called the Vienna circle and was then further developed by British philosopher A.J Ayer. Religious language refer to statements such as ‘God exists’ and ‘God loves me’. Whilst
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Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 a. Summary of Law: The Framers of the Constitution realized the importance of the freedom of religion. Therefore‚ the right to express religion freely became one of the unalienable rights that are listed under the 1st Amendment. All laws passed by Congress are not supposed to be restrictive to the practices of any religion‚ but sometimes‚ laws that were meant to be “neutral” restrict religious practices just as much as laws that were meant to work against
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determine the potential response of each of the religious groups in your community. Use the attached links to research the basic moral and ethical principles believed by each group. Then determine how you believe each group will react to the issue based on what you find. Provide a brief justification for your answer. After completing the matrix‚ write a 300- to 500-word summary of the significant similarities and differences among the different religious groups. |SCHOOL ISSUES
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from religious experience. A religious experience is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. Refer to cases where a person encounters God in a direct way. Otto said the central element of direct was an ‘apprehension of the wholly other’‚ called the numinous. This means the world that is beyond the physical observable universe in which we live. They are experiences of the wholly other; completely outside our possible knowledge and experience. The ways religious experiences
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Explain what is meant by the term ‘a religious experience’. (45 marks) In 1969 Alister Hardy set up the Religious Experience Research Unit (RERU) with the aim of examining the extent and nature of the religious experiences of people in the UK. The experiences recorded were quite different from other types of experiences that people had. According to Alister Hardy the religious experience ‘… usually induces in the person concerned a conviction that the everyday world is not the whole of reality;
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Religious Freedom Restoration Act In this paper I will describe the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. This Act was used to contradict the decision of the court case of Employment Division v. Smith‚ which allowed the government to forbid any religious act without giving a reason. The RFRA brought back the requirement that the government provide an adequate reason to forbid any religious act. The government once again had to show that the act was of compelling interest against the state. In
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Religious freedom has been a staple of the American doctrine since the Bill of Rights. Since then‚ religious freedom has been challenged repeatedly. From the Supreme Court’s rulings that have shaped religious freedoms‚ Congress’ enactment of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)‚ the religious accommodations that have been challenged after the legalization of same-sex marriage‚ and the religious obstacles that Muslims face. Religious freedom has been and continues to be a center point in American
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The Argument from Religious Experience The argument from religious experience is the argument that personal religious experiences can prove God’s existence to those that have them. One can only perceive that which exists‚ and so God must exist because there are those that have experienced him. While religious experiences themselves can only constitute direct evidence of God’s existence for those fortunate enough to have them‚ the fact that there are many people who testify to having had such experiences
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