REL 130- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL 130
• Professor: altman

Document Summary

Rel class 9/7/17: the enlightenment history of religion. The reformation: religious diversity in europe for first time. How does natural religion relate to revelation: supernatural action or claim, the bible/ a vision/ prophecy, revelation is superior to natural religion, natural religion is the core essentials of religion, revelation supplement, natural religion will replace revelation. The oldest is the purest a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ost (cid:862)(cid:374)atural religio(cid:374)(cid:863) Jean boden (1530-1596: said moses had the first religion (judaism) Judgement for good and evil in the afterlife. Reaso(cid:374) leads o(cid:374)e to (cid:862)(cid:374)atural religio(cid:374)(cid:863: the deists, use your god-given reason to understand god, re(cid:448)elatio(cid:374) is(cid:374)"t i(cid:374) the bi(cid:271)le/kora(cid:374)/et(cid:272) , (cid:271)ut i(cid:374) the (cid:374)atural (cid:449)orld, natural religion must be reasonable. Patrie: country/ homeland/fatherland (patriotic) (cid:862)what is a nation? (cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)88(cid:1006)(cid:895, nations are new, where did they come from, unity, forgetting (apple pie came from england makes it american)