MIS340-Midterm-Exam

The study of comparative religion can often leave the student with a sense of bewilderment.

Most of the people living in the world today are very aware of the basic beliefs of their own religion.

There are three branches of Christendom.

Central to the Christian faith is the identity of its founder Jesus Christ and it is of monumental importance to have a proper view of who he is.

Matching:

Truth does not require our actions to match our words.

The Holy Spirit is personal and is God, not the third person of the Holy Trinity.

To the atheist, all of existence can be explained naturally rather than supernaturally.

George Hegel developed a system to explain change, called “dialectics.”

Marx rejected Hegel’s total materialism.

Secular Humanism does not challenge Christian philosophies.

The “Humanist Manifesto I” had 12 major themes.

Adolph Hitler and World War II had nothing to do with the optimism of the 1933 “Manifesto.”

Hinduism is one of the oldest and most complex religious Systems.

The Ramayana is 1 of 3 epic tales of India.

Moksha, also known as mukti, is the Hindu term used for the liberation of the soul from the wheel of fortune.

The word karma literally means action and has reference to a person’s actions and consequences thereof.

Match the following:

Salvation for the Hindu can be achieved in one of four ways.

Hinduism says that salvation can be obtained only 1 way, just as Christianity.

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism have much in common.

Match the following:

Early Buddhism was confined largely to India.

Nichiren Buddhism has experienced growth for 50 years, started by a fisherman.

Central to the practice of Zen is zoozen, the method of sitting in meditation.

Satori can be repeated and willed into existence.

Confucius wrote commentaries, called “Five Classics,” on some ancient manuscripts.

One of the Five Classics, “Shih Ching,” is a history of preceding dynasties.

Filial piety can be described as devotion and obedience by the younger members of the family to the elders.

Loyalty and devotion to the family takes a low priority in Chinese life.

Confucius taught an ethical philosophy that became the state religion of China.

Taoism teaches that the less government, the better, and rulers lead with action.

Shinto is the national religion of Korea.

Shinto is one of the oldest of all the world’s religions.

The basic place for worship in Shinto is an altar built into every home.

Zoroaster lived 600 years before the birth of Christ in Babylonia.

Ahura-Mazda has always been the more powerful of the two spirits.

Christianity traces its roots to historic Judaism.

Judaism holds no concept of original sin.

Atonement for sin is achieved by works of righteousness in Christianity.