Dominican Spirituality Unit 1 Review

The best possible explanation for NDEs is that some part of us is really ___ and not limited to bodily death.

That which is experienced as the divine

In the _______ Marduk conquers Tiamat in a ferocious battle.

Each of the following is one of the 4 substitutes for God EXCEPT

Which transcendental best represents unity, wholeness, completion, perfection, and draws us in or transports us in a way

All of the following constitute clinical death EXCEPT

Relativism argues that there is no objective or absolute ____

The response to the first pole of the NE is one of

Commonly reported components of NDE patients include all BUT

Reported features of NDEs are not very consistent with one another.

The voluntary subjection of oneself to a god, gods, the God

Part of __ is relating to the part of reality within us that is trans-physical and unexplainable on scientific grounds.

Telos, Gk. means

____ for the first time conceives of one transcendent reality beyond the universe that creates us out of love.

This means man is made in the image of God

According to William James our default setting as children is belief, but with age comes more cynicism or skepticism.

According to a Pew Research pole ___% of the world is religious.

Blind patients from Spitzer's cited NDE studies report having demonstrated sight though blind from birth.

Spirituality across ancient cultures involves all of the following EXCEPT

___ exists in its highest perfection in living in conformity with the teachings of the Divine Being

God has each of the following attributes EXCEPT

Beauty attracts us to the pursuit of ___ and __.

The unity of transcendentals means it is impossible to ___ beauty, goodness, and truth.

The Genesis creation story shows us that we have been designed by God to seek beauty, goodness, and truth.

Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans means:

God creates ______ in the Book of Genesis

The transphysical component of a human being leaves the physical body in a _____

Which is NOT an Abrahamic religion?

Which is NOT one of the three transcendentals?

Those things beyond us for which we have a built-in desire.

Medically, NDEs while clinically dead should be impossible, yet many patients report them.

Children are universally more embracing of religious experience

One alternative to monotheism discussed by Rabbi Sacks is that the universe came into being for no reason.

Fr. Robert Spitzer examined the results of more than __ medical studies of patients who had NDEs.

NDE patients can often accurately describe sights and sounds that happened in the room while they were clinically dead.

The study of who we are as beings created by God, or the study of man and his relation to God

The study of human origins or cultures

The response to the 2nd pole of the NE is one of

The first pole of the numinous experience evokes a sense of ___

God is a transcendent reality

The Ojibwe/Anishinaabe great flood story closely resembles the biblical ___

God transcends the natural/physical world

Transcendere, Lt. means to

The good relates to how well something achieves its ultimate __, or purpose.

The numinous experience is defined as

The divine within us (near)

The divine above us (far/distant)

Stories that explain the origin of the universe and our relationship to the divine

That which is in accord with reality.

The first pole of the numinous experience is marked by all EXCEPT...