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    Cornell Notes For Religious Questions

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    This reading assignment discusses how religion seeks to answer life's most fundamental questions through exploring topics like the human condition, ethics, the afterlife, and the nature of the universe. It outlines five main questions religions grapple with: 1) What is the human condition? 2) What is spiritual perfection? 3) What is our ultimate destiny? 4) What is the nature of the world? 5) What is the ultimate reality and how is it revealed?

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    This reading assignment discusses how religion seeks to answer life's most fundamental questions through exploring topics like the human condition, ethics, the afterlife, and the nature of the universe. It outlines five main questions religions grapple with: 1) What is the human condition? 2) What is spiritual perfection? 3) What is our ultimate destiny? 4) What is the nature of the world? 5) What is the ultimate reality and how is it revealed?

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    Religious Questions (pp. 13-15)

    ethics = a dimension
    Humans are of self-conscious and spiritual
    religionthatWedeals
    ask,with
    and how
    answer, life’s most basic questions
    we are to act while living in
    the world.
    1. What is the human condition?
     Are we more than physical beings? Do we have a soul/spirit? Are
    transcendence = the
    we good, evil or both? Why do we suffer?
    overcoming of the normal
     Often answered with accounts of human origins
    limitations imposed by the
    2. What is spiritual perfection?
    human condition, whether
     What is right and wrong (ethics)?
    temporarily or abidingly.
     Can we transcend the human condition or attain salvation?
    cosmology = the is our destiny?
    3. What
    understanding of the nature
    Where are we going ultimately?
    of the universe. Is there life after death? Heaven, hell?
    4. What is the nature of the world (cosmology)?
    monotheism = the belief in
     Is the universe, real or illusory? sacred or mundane? good or evil?
    only one god.
     How does science relate to religious belief?
    polytheism = theisbelief
    5. What in
    the Ultimate Reality and how is it revealed?
    many gods.  Is there a God or gods?
     Monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, non-theism
    pantheism = the belief that
     Has God (or the gods) been revealed to us? If so, how?
    the divine reality exists in
    everything.

    revelation = the transmission


    of the divine will or
    knowledge to human beings,
    typically through myths or
    some form of religious
    experience.

    Summary: As self-conscious, spiritual beings, humans ask the most basic questions about the meaning of life. These
    are the questions that have given birth to the various religious traditions in human history.

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