RELS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Meister Eckhart, Shikantaza, Religious Experience

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 205
• Professor: Craig ginn

Document Summary

Rels 205 religion and the good life module 4 study questions from readings. Pg 155: when baha"u"llah founded the relatively new religion of bah"i in 19th century. Persia, it was for him a dramatic enough experience that he became a new prophet, leading to new scriptures and a new faith. This call is all the more dramatic because it happened in the context of islam, where it was immediately seen as heresy: all revelation from allah, according to islam, ends with muhammad thus. Baha"u"llah, they reasonably concluded, could not succeed in being merely a continuation of revelation: in this way baha"i becomes a new religion. Pg 170-171: christians like muslims and jews, believe in a god that is ultimately non- corporeal and incapable of being depicted, and like the other abrahamic religions, Pg 176: christianity, judaism, and sikhism, guru nanak - emerged in india in the context of spiritual poets of hinduism and.