RELG 204 Lecture 7: Judaism1.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Patricia Kirkpatrick

Document Summary

Judaism, christianity and islam: the school of athens, academy full of members talking and discussing, plato and a young man aristotle in the middle of the painting, plato is teaching aristotle to look beyond the empirical reality of the world they live in, truth, reality and the essence of things is universal, universalism leads to one truth if i am right, you are wrong . Genesis 11:1 9: lord confuses language of the builders of babel and scatters them around the earth, god does not attempt universal unity until the end of days , there will be a different people. Judaism and monotheism: particularist monotheism, believes in one god, but not one religion or one truth, god of abraham is god of all mankind, outside of judaism, there is salvation, the pious of the nations have a share in the world to come, biblical monotheism.