Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
1. Discuss examples to illustrate how the divine names offer insight into the spiritual pathways of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity?
2. Choose one of the three great teachers of religious spirituality that the readings focused on a) Muhammad’s life, b) Moses’ life or c) Jesus Christ. From your reading about this teacher of religious spirituality discuss two ways you see that this teacher continues to serve as an example for an experience of religious spirituality today.
3. Identify and discuss three positive values that people of all persuasions can derive from the study of the spiritual pathways of the Abrahamic religious faiths.
4. Explain why the Incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus Christ so important for Christians and Christian spirituality?
5. Rolheiser discusses several “consequences of the Incarnation” for spirituality in chapter 5. Identify and discuss one of these “consequences” that carries the most meaning for you now.
Religion and Its Elements
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1. Discuss examples to illustrate how the divine names offer insight into the spiritual pathways of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity? Divine names in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity play a significant role in the spirituality of their subjects. They offer personal transformation for individuals by disregarding evil and keeping up with the faith. For example, Jews speak of Torah as a path to righteousness, Christians use hodos as a pathway to the purity of the heart, while Muslims submit to God’s ways and will through the proclamation of shariah, deemed the straight path (St Laurent, 2000). The announcement of such divine words depicts human fulfillment by which they have to live by and amplify their morality and righteousness and devotion and compassion to their religion. 2. Choose one of the three great teachers of religious spirituality that the readings focused on a) Muhammad’s life, b) Moses’ life or c) Jesus Christ. From your reading about this teacher of religious spirituality discuss two ways you see that this teacher continues to serve as an example for an experience of religious spirituality today. The narratives of Jesus Christ in the New Testament demonstrate how Jesus’ way of leading a spiritual life impacts the followers in the contemporary era. The gospel books of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John elaborate on how Jesus catches the attention of his followers and provides them with an invitation to spirituality as a pathway to power, presence of God, and closeness (Ferguson, 2010). His life in the physical world acts as an invitation to spirituality since he led a sinless and faith-based way of living, which amounts to desired values that match the will of God. The other way is that Jesus’s life acts as a challenge to his modern-day followers, which acts as the expected life of faith and adherence to commandments that they should lead. 3. Identify and discuss three positive values that people of all persuasions can derive from the study of the spiritual pathways of the Abrahamic religious faiths Abrahamic faiths confer several positive values to all followers of religion since they tend to match the desired way of living. The first critical value is faith, which functi...