MCC World Civ chapter 4

concept of the divine as found in Judaism

• understands God as demanding social justice

• in the way nature underlies everything

• a view of heaven as a state of collective consciousness

• idea that energy creates divine reality

Buddhism & Christianity have this in common

• both started as effort to reform the religion they had come from

• neither were active missionary religions

• both ultimately died out

• both denied salvation to outsiders

ideology includes concept of a supernatural dimension

• Judaism

• Greek rationalism

• Legalism

• Mahayana Buddhism

cosmic struggle between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu is central to

• Zorastrianism

• Buddhism

• Judaism

• Hinduism

Christian emphasis on human side of Jesus' nature

• Nestorian

• Eastern Orthodox

• Nicean

• Roman Catholic

similarities of Hinduism and Buddhism

• offers hope for release from reincarnation

• monothesistic

• rejects authority of Brahmins

• rejects concept of karma

Disagreement over the teachings of the Buddha led to

• a religious hierarchy

• clear distinction between right and wrong

• creation of different sects and meditation

• a standardization of Buddhism

element of Hinduism rejected by Buddhism

• overcoming demands of ego

• concept of ordinary life being an illusion

• authority of the Brahins

• practice of meditation and prayer

system of harsh rewards and punishments as way of governing a population

• Confucianism

• Legalism

• Buddhism

• Daoism

Hindu text

• Daodejing

• Analects

• Lessons for Women

• Bhagavad Gita