something that is the supreme, final, and fundamental power in all reality
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Theistic View
the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation
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Monistic View
The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
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Ineffability
concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words
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Noetic Quality
Noetic Quality - Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge. They are states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discurssive intellect.
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Transience
the state or fact of lasting only for a short time; transitoriness.
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Passivity
acceptance of what happens, without active response or resistance.
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Conversion
A change in which one adopts a new religion, faith, or belief.
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Prayer
a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or another deity.
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Meditation
the action or practice of meditating.
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Mysticism
belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender.
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Numinous
having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.
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Propositional Revelation
in which God communicates his divine message to a human being e.g. Moses recieving ten commandments or Muhammad recieving the Qur'an
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Non- Propositional Revelation
in which, through religious experience, a person comes to a moment of 'realisation' of divine truth, for instance when the Buddha gained enlightenment
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation
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Theistic View
Card 3
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The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
Back
Card 4
Front
concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words
Back
Card 5
Front
Noetic Quality - Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge. They are states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discurssive intellect.
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