Religion and Spirituality - Chapter 1

Fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering key concepts from the notes on the relationship between spirituality, religion, and theology, including definitions, concepts of narrative, and the examples of Tillich and Ignatius Loyola.

The confession 'I am _ but not religious' usually means that people are reflective, perhaps deep and inquiring.

spiritual

Spirituality resides deep down in human behavior at a level shared with basic faith or trust and bears a structure.

narrative

Spirituality is to religion; religion has as its goal to reflect and nurture it.

prior

A working definition of spirituality designates in clear broad terms what the term refers to in this usage without comparing it with many other .

possibilities

Spirituality refers to the style and pattern of a person's or a community's life; it may be consciously deliberated and trained; it may also be .

spontaneous

The aphorism 'we are what we do' implies that translate the depth and agency of the inner self into character and identity.

decisions and actions

The ultimate for which we live should really be an ultimate and not an .

idol

Theology intends critically to and nourish the very spirituality that supports it.

appreciate

Spirituality must be understood in and as history or narrative.

time

Paul Ricoeur notes that human time is a mixture of what passes away and what .

endures

Two kinds of narratives are sacred narratives and narratives.

mundane

Kathryn Tanner describes Pascal's wager in a situation in which religions are represented in urban environments.

pluralistic

Tillich's 'method of correlation' places formulas from the past and present-day experience in conjunction with present-day experience; the process is called .

correlation

Tillich's 'fusion of narratives' is the fusion of the public narrative with the narrative of the .

interpreter

The goal of Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises is to align the goal of one's being and life with reality.

ultimate reality

The basic units of the Exercises are of scenes in Jesus's ministry.

contemplations

In the Exercises, the person enters the gospel stories by imaginatively placing the self within the scenes; this is a of narratives.

correlation

The pluralism of sacred stories is a .

blessing

Religion can represent the of culture only if it supports the spirituality of those who live in that culture.

substance

Spirituality is the of a new world-culture, and in order to survive, explicit religious life must that spirituality.

substance