REL 2300 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Judaism, Christianity, God
Document Summary
Soteriology - doctrine of salvation, how to get to heaven -------------- religion. When the church lost control of almost everything else, all they had left was god and salvation. The age of exploration, europeans are coming into contact with ideas out of abrahamic traditions. During colonialism, europeans tried to spread their ideas, which only enforced the state"s religions. All of the different beliefs in india all mesh together to become hinduism. Textual determinism - the scriptures are driving the car, where the person is only riding in it. Babylonian exile ends with king cyrus (the bible refers to him as messiah) Cyrus doesn"t worship bible god, cyrus worships mardu, israelites did not worship cyrus" god. Iran really got behind him because he was a persian king to recognize all of the religions. Hellenization - 332 - 167 bce - process of becoming greek or adopting greek customs. During hellenization the torah gets translated to greek.
