REL 156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Philosophical Theology, Womanism, Opiate
12 Sep 2016
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Accompanied by a deeper idea of recognition that human being is fundamentally. Due to types of suffering in the world: disease, poverty, brutality, exploitation, and oppression. Terror about themselves and their capacity for evil and destruction. Christianity is legion (mark 5:9: that is, christianity cannot be defined in any one way, because it is many things at once. Continues to reinvent itself: this has much to do with its many traditions. Christianity originates in a culturally diverse environment: the roman world. Five major groups within the complex or constellation christianity. Heterodox groups or movements related to the first three: heterodox people who have the wrong teachings (heresy) Intellectual and social movements related to, but not entirely defined by or restricted to the three institutional traditions above. History of religions: religions is sui generis, something distinctive, something with its own integrity and merits.
