Dominican Spirituality Unit 1 Review- Spring 2021

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

Commonly reported components of NDE patients include all BUT

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

Which Greek philosopher wrote De Anima, On the Soul?

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

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

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

Spirituality across ancient cultures involves all of the following EXCEPT

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

Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans means:

Who or what made a thing? God is the __ of all the universe according to Aquinas' 2nd Proof.

The numinous experience is defined as

This means man is made in the image of God

Who developed the 5 proofs for God's existence?

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

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

Transcendere, Lt. means to

That which is experienced as the divine

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

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

What something is made out of (the matter)

Man resembles God through each attribute EXCEPT

Telos, Gk. means

The divine above us (far/distant)

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

All of the following constitute clinical death EXCEPT

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

God is a transcendent reality

The element of an object or being that is definable (its essence).

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

The numinous experience is defined as

Lectio Divina developed out of the monastic tradition of praying with Scripture.

The divine within us (near)

God creates ______ in the Book of Genesis

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.

God transcends the natural/physical world

The study of human origins or cultures

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

The material cause of a chair is for people to sit in it.

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

Children are universally more embracing of religious experience

In the Bible God creates out of love, whereas in the Enuma Elish creation comes forth out of __

The Genesis creation story tells us we are designed by God and are made in his image and likeness.

The study of the "end goal" or "final purpose" of things

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

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

Meditatio in Lectio Divina means to...

In the _______ Marduk conquers Tiamat in a ferocious battle.

The formal cause of something is the final purpose for which something is made.

Which is NOT one of the steps of Lectio Divina?