WHEATON COLLEGE
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Religion 102 (01)                                                                                      
Introduction to World Religion                                                                          Fall, 1997

The Religious Response Study Guide


I.  Key Terms:

 religion
 immanent
 orthodox
 transpersonal
 transcendent
 fundamentalists
 reason/intuition
 theistic
 liberals
 mystical experience
 agnosticism
 heretics
 mysterium tremendum
 nontheistic
 mystics
 
 
 

II.  Focus Questions:

 1.  What is the religious response?
 

 2.  In addition to reason and intuition, what other ways of supporting the reality of the   religious response can you suggest?
 

 3.  What problems arise when women and "feminine" qualities are suppressed in a religion?
 

 4.  If a religion is known to have a dark side, does that mean that the religion is false?