RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sola Scriptura, Western Religions, Abrahamic Religions
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Term paper topic on blackboard: what to cover for critical response. 3 major points that writer makes to support his or her. Not using the best sources, not enough sources. You are aware of other materials that would change the conclusion. Different approaches to the study of religion: what do we mean when talking about religion. Many different ways to come at this topic: concluded last class with us trying to put together our understanding of different approaches to evolve common definition for religion. 7 different dimensions nimian smart: worldviews, experiential dimension, mythic dimension. Religions pass these stories from generation to generation: doctrinal dimension. Hold certain articles of faith and belief: ethical dimension, ritual, social. No contention about whether there is a god or not. Called so because all identify their ancestry from abraham, the patriarch. Belief in god greater being (theism) Product of time belief in idea of only one god.
