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Experimental
- Religious Experiences
- - moses with burning bush
- - miracles
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Mythic
- not false, or irrational or completely true
- - creation
- - Adam & Eve
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Doctrinal
- creeds, doctrines, or teachings
- - Apostles' Creed
- - Beatitudes
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Ethical
- Teachings that answer questions
- - 10 Commandments
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Transcendence
The overcoming of the normal limitations imposed by the human condition, whether temporarily or abidingly
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Mysticism
A category of religious experiences characterized by communing or united with the divine through in ward contemplation
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Ethics
A dimension of religion that deals with how we are to act while living in the world
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Revelation
The transmission of the divine will or knowledge to human beings, typically through myths or some form of religious experience
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Ritual
- Worship carried out through some formal practice
- - Baptism
- - Palm Sunday
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Social
- Communities
- - youth group
- - mass
- - parish
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Material
- - Statue of the Virign Mary
- - Cross
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Faith
Experience of the divine or holy presence, sometimes involving intellectual belief and sometimes emphasizing personal trust
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Cosmology
The understanding of the nature of the universe
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Empathy
The capacity for seeing things from another's perspective, and an important methodological approach for studying religions
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Myth
A story (often record in scripture) that tends to answer quesitons of origins and serves as a source of sacred truth
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Pantheism
The belief that the divine really exists in everything
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Ritual
Formal worship practice, often based on the re-enactment of a myth
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Monotheism
belief in one god
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Polythesium
Belief in many gods
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Spiritual Perfections
The complete fulfillment of spiritual potential
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