SOC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Image Of God, Ten Lost Tribes, In Justice
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Wisdom traditions: applies to all religions (hinduism, taoism, confucianism, and buddhism). Importance of god in human life, responsibility of human beings. Emphasize the importance of human being for their own spiritual liberation; cosmic order in which all things belong. Doesn"t speak to you directly but through prophet. Prophecy: literal definition (cid:281)to speak for(cid:282); join idea that god is spoken to through others; Revelation: 3 core assumption: there is god, there are certain people for whom god will speak, there is definite message that god has for human kind. Yhwh (yahweh): literally means (cid:281)i am who i am(cid:282) or i will be who i will be. This is answer god gives to moses (exodus). Jewish way of naming god; god is transcendent or beyond human: personal being 2. In god: human being are confronted by the fact of their limitation, don"t have utter freedom like god.
