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What are the unalienable rights that all men are endowed with?
Life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Where did the Anglo-American law originated?
England
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The authors of our Declaration represent the thinking of what man?
Sir William Blackstone
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Who influenced the perspective law in England?
juristheologist Saint Thomas Aquinas
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What 4 categories did St. Thomas Aquinas develop his thoery on?
Eternal law, Natural Law, Divine Law, and Human Law
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What was St. Thomas Aquinas "reason"?
That communication is between Man & God. (faith & spirit)
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What are the 4 categories that Sir William Blackstone divided his theory into?
Law of Nature, Law of Scripture, Natural Law, and Human Law
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What was Sir William Blackstone's "reason"?
That communication is between Man & Man. Man finds about God for himself.
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Who's "reason" had the most influence on America?
Sir William Blackstone
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Who said, "that Englad was but the suburbs of Europe and was distined to occuy a much more central position in the future as a bridge between the old world and the New"
John Donne, 1622
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Where was there still a significant # of Roman Catholics during the Protestant dominance?
Maryland
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What was the difference of influence between England & the Colonies?
- England: Anglican (the church of England)
- the Colonies: Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Baptist & Quaker
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What functional advantage did the government experience with a more open, tolerant position?
Jails were emptied, the Improverished were sent, Adventureer's were enlisted
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What is "local autonomy"?
- 1) self control of life/direction of congregation
- 2) minsiter is central voice (preaching/teaching)
- 3) the laity have voting perogatives (controls who will be minister)
- 4) own property out right (not controlled by domination)
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What was the death blow to the idea that a whole community would belong to just 1 church?
Thomas Jeffereson's Bill of Religious Rights, 1786
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Who started the 1st black church in SIlver Bluff, SC?
David George & George Leile, 1775
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What are the English dominations?
Anglicans, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Quakers & Roman Catholics
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What are the Continental Dominations?
Mennoites (minno Simmons), Moravians, German Lutheran & Reformed, Jews, and Dunkers Trinitarian Baptismal formula: Father, Son, Holy Spirit
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What is the latin word for religion?
ligare: a linking back from the human divine
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Define sacred.
A state of deep relationalship with God
spiritual reformation: practice of obedience of religious moral & ethical codes
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Exislentialism states:
- God is "wholly other" and can never be identified with anything finite.
- Jesus Christ was only a man who hid his divinity.
- God & Christ can never be fully known.
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Who were in the the Taino Tribe?
Pre-Hispanic Amerindian's (includes: Haiti, Cuba, DOminican Republic, Puerto Rican, Jamaica, and Bahamas)
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Key points of the Taino Religion:
- -worshipped spiritual beings called "CEMI"
- -oral tradition states that the sun & moon came out of caves
- -and that the ocean came from a flood: father murdered son; put his bones in a gourd; bones turned into fish; gourd broke and all water came puring out into world
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Which illustration of Native Worldview told story about origin of humanity, corn & tobacco?
Penobscot Indian Story: Kloskurbeh, the All Maker (lived on Earth)
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Which illustration of Native Worldview told story of creation?
Osage Story: Sun & Moon progenitors
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Which illustration of Native Worldview told story of people?
Sioux Story: rattlesnakes are cousin
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Which illustration of Native Worldview told story about myth?
Pottawatomie: maiden sings to a fish that turns into a child
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Which illustration of Native Worldview told story about a myth of a girl who married a rattlesnake?
Pomo
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Who was the eternal center figure of the Cherokees?
someone Powerful
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Who was the eternal center figure of the Cheyenne?
The Great Medicine
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Who was the eternal center figure of the Yakima?
"Great Chief Above"
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Who was the eternal center figure of the Hopi?
a Woman
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Who was the eternal center figure of the Apache?
a pregnant maiden from the sun & water who gives birth to the Song of God
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Who was the eternal center figure of the Penobscot?
Kloskurbeh, the All Maker
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What areas of daily life did belief systems influenced?
- - knowing when to hunt & fish
- - rituals that communicate history
- - concepionn & pregnancy
- - "rights of passage"
- - going to war
- - last rites & rituals of death
- - art
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What is Worldview?
a way of explaining the world around you through a concieved set of moral premises that give definition to what you see.
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What was Martin Luther's Key argument for the Reformation?
95 Thesis, "Justification by Faith": supported the notion that a person could achieve a union with God by faith alone instead of deeds that the Catholic Church required
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Johann Tetzel?
- - a Domincian Priest
- - raised money for St. Peter's Basillica by selling "indulgences" ( penance certificates that were purchased before you committed any sin)
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