Download Study Guide for Apocalypticism - Introduction to Western Religions | RELS 2101 and more Study notes World Religions in PDF only on Docsity! Study Guide for Apocalypticism from Section 3 1. Apocalypticism is defined as religious protest literature. What is it protesting? 2. What is the historical event to which Revelation is responding? 3. Explain how apocalypticism re-works the trio of equations. 4. Revelation is a text that belongs to: a. the Torah b. the New Testament c. the Old Testament d. the Apocrypha e. the Quran 5. Explain how apocalyptic literature draws on the theme of combat (from creation myths) to provide an answer to suffering. 6. Evaluate the pros and cons of using the theme of supernatural combat to devise an āanswerā for suffering. 7. Explain the difference between those Israelites who were waiting for a Son of God to come as Messiah, and those Israelites who were waiting for a Son of Man. 8. The text of Revelation is trying to get the early Christians to rebel against Rome in order to put the right king on the throne. T/F? Apocalypticism begins with Christianity. T/F? 9. What belief leads Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to pose suffering as a problem? 10. In the text of Job, God and chaos are: a. separated b. unrelated c. intertwined. 11. In Revelation, God and chaos are: a. separated b. unrelated c. intertwined. 12. Explain the difference between the figure translated as Satan in the book of Job and the figure of Satan in the book of Revelation. Study Guide for Modernity ā Section 4 1. Define and locate on the time line: the Reformation(s), modernity, and Latour. 2. Both modernity and the creation narratives of the Ancient Near East shared the same agenda: to create order out of chaos. T or F? Both modernity and the 3 Western religions we have studied try to secure the natural order and the social order by appealing to the religious order. T or F? Both modernity and the 3 Western religions we have studied think that the natural order and the social order are one and the same, follow the same rules and principles. T or F? 3. In the period immediately preceding Modernity, religion became a source of social disorder. Explain why. 4. While indulgences (and church corruption) were Lutherās catalyst, I argued that the underlying issue was a different understanding of sin, confession, and justification before God. What was Lutherās spiritual dilemma? How did he solve it? 5. Explain the idea of sola scriptura. Why did it lead to disorder? 6. Name the technological invention on which the Protestant Reformation depended. 7. Explain what Hobbes thinks is original to humanity? 8. Compare and contrast Hobbesā attitude toward the natural or created world with Augustineās attitude. 9. Explain how Hobbes uses reason to create social/political order. 10. If āLeviathanā is the biblical name of the chaos monster, why does Beal think Hobbes use it as the name for āorderā?
