Spiritual fulfillment is:

A higher state of spiritual maturity

A statement that seems to contradict common sense, but is perhaps true

Most religions teach that the ultimate reality is revealed to humans through:

Sacred stories and various types of religious experiences

The transmission of the divine will or knowledge to human beings

The understanding of the nature of the universe

Holds a belief in god or in multiple gods

The capacity of seeing things from another’s perspective

The overcoming of the limitations imposed by the human condition

How do religions usual present their view of the basic nature of the human condition?

They use accounts of human origins

A nontheistic religion:

Holds that a belief in divine beings is not relevant

A visible sign used to represent an invisible reality

Mystery in religion is defined as:

What we cannot ultimately understand but we can learn more about it

Why will the relevance of religion in our da-to-day lives continue to increase?

People will interact with people fromdifferent religious traditions

Scholar Ninian Smart suggests that all religious traditions:

Manifest seven dimensions that are complementary

A nonhistorical story that is the source of sacred truth

Spiritual transformation is:

A vital objective of most religions

In theistic religions God is experience as:

A holy presence who is other and is both frightening and fascinating

A formal worship practice, often based on the reenactment of a myth

What does it mean that religion begins with a mystery?

The answers to questions about our existence are at the roots of religions

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What is ethical?
Human condition
Ultimately reality
Nature of the world
Destiny
2
Answer the question: How are we to act while living in the world?
Ethical
Experiential
Mythic
Doctrinal
3
Spiritual fulfillment is:
A higher state of spiritual maturity
Attained in all religions in the same way
Closely related to some form of salvation in all religions
4
What is a paradox?
A statement that does not have any relation with an objective reality
A statement that seems to contradict common sense, but is perhaps true
A statement that can never be understood
5
Most religions teach that the ultimate reality is revealed to humans through:
Material objects and various types of religious hierarchies
Sacred stories and various types of religious experiences
Ethical imperatives and various types of religious rituals
6
Revelation is:
The transmission of the divine will or knowledge to human beings
A religious experience characterized by union with the divine
A story that tends to answer questions of origins source of sacred truth
7
What is cosmology?
The understanding of the nature of human nature
The understanding of the nature of the universe
The understanding of the nature of nature
8
Accepting a set of beliefs or teachings about the life’s deepest mysteries.
Theology
Ethics
Religion
9
The community of believers.
Material
Social
Experiential
Ritual
10
What do religions typically prescribe as a basic requirement for the journey spiritual fulfillment?
They prescribe an ethical life
They prescribe special rituals
They prescribe pilgrimages or holy journeys
11
A theistic religion:
Holds that a belief in divine beings is not relevant
Does not hold a belief in a divine being
Holds a belief in god or in multiple gods
12
Empathy is:
The capacity of feeling sorry for someone else
Feeling indifferent of lacking emotions for others
The capacity of seeing things from another’s perspective
13
Often reenact a myth or sacred story.
Material
Ritual
Experiential
Social
14
Why do we suffer?
Destiny
Human condition
Nature of the world
Ultimately reality
15
What is our essential nature?
Human condition
Destiny
Nature of the world
Ultimately reality
16
Are we endowed with a deeper spiritual essence, some form of soul?
Nature of the world
Ultimately reality
Destiny
Human condition
17
The celebration of a Baptism.
Experiential
Ritual
Social
Material
18
Transcendence is:
The overcoming of the limitations imposed by the human condition
The term used to express a higher power activity in the world
The answer to the religious questions, why do we suffer?
19
The apostles experience of the risen Jesus.
Experiential
Ritual
Social
Material
20
What does it mean that we are spiritual?
We are self-contained beings
We are like any other members of the animal kingdom.
We are self-conscious beings
21
Creeds and teaching that commonly originated in lived religious experiences.
Mythic
Doctrinal
Ethical
Experiential
22
How do religions usual present their view of the basic nature of the human condition?
They use formal worship practices
They use accounts of human origins
They use scientific discoveries
23
The sacred architecture of cathedral, temples and mosques.
Experiential
Social
Material
Ritual
24
A nontheistic religion:
Holds that a belief in divine beings is not relevant
holds a belief that god or gods is in evething
Holds a belief in god or in multiple gods
25
What is a symbol?
A visible sign used to represent an invisible reality
A visible sign used to representing a material reality
A visible sign used to communicate one meaning
26
Where are we going ultimately?
Nature of the world
Ultimately reality
Human condition
Destiny
27
How do we transcend the human condition?
Nature of the world
Human condition
Destiny
Ultimately reality
28
Mystery in religion is defined as:
A problem that that needs to be solved as we learn more and more about it
What we cannot ultimately understand but we can learn more about it
The overcoming of ignorance through the collection of data and evidences
29
The experience of the divine, sometimes involving intellectual belief and sometimes involving personal trust is called:
Faith
Ethics
Ritual
30
A polytheistic religion holds the belief:
In only one God
In many gods and goddesses
That God exists in everything
31
The story of Adam and Eve.
Doctrinal
Mythic
Experiential
Ethical
32
The Buddha experience of Enlightment.
Social
Ritual
Experiential
Material
33
The pope, the bishops, priests, and deacons.
Social
Material
Experiential
Ritual
34
The Ten Commandments
Experiential
Material
Ethical
Social
35
Sacred entities whether natural or of human construction.
Experiential
Material
Ritual
Social
36
Why will the relevance of religion in our da-to-day lives continue to increase?
People will develop new and more meaningful religions for young people
People will become more religious and peaceful
People will interact with people fromdifferent religious traditions
37
Is the world a help or an hindrance to the religious quest?
Human condition
Destiny
Ultimately reality
Nature of the world
38
A monotheistic religion holds the belief:
That God exists in everything
In only one God
In many gods and goddesses
39
Accounts of the creation of the world.
Experiential
Ethical
Doctrinal
Mythic
40
Scholar Ninian Smart suggests that all religious traditions:
Provide answers to all the existential questions
Have received a revelation from a supreme reality
Manifest seven dimensions that are complementary
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Typically includes a hierarchy of leadership.
Ritual
Material
Social
Experiential
42
A myth is:
A historical story that is the source of sacred truth
A made-up story that does not have any objective reality
A nonhistorical story that is the source of sacred truth
43
Spiritual transformation is:
The result of a higher state of spiritual maturity
A way to gain more energy to individuals
A vital objective of most religions
44
Where did the world come from?
Human condition
Nature of the world
Ultimately reality
Destiny
45
In theistic religions God is experience as:
A holy presence who is other and is both frightening and fascinating
The object of a vision encounter in a out of body experience
A divine reality with whom the individual becomes one through contemplation
46
Is the world real or some kind of cosmic illusion?
Destiny
Nature of the world
Human condition
Ultimately reality
47
A ritual is:
An informal worship practice, often based on the reenactment of a myth
A formal worship practice, often based on the reenactment of a myth
A spontaneous worship practice, often based on the reenactment of a myth
48
The rosary beads.
Material
Experiential
Social
Ritual
49
What is the nature of God?
Destiny
Human condition
Ultimately reality
Nature of the world
50
What does it mean that religion begins with a mystery?
Life is a mystery to be solved by explaining it
We will never understand what religion is
The answers to questions about our existence are at the roots of religions

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