ASPECTS OF. RELIGION The ability to make our world of meaning again and again The ability to make our world of meaning again and again.

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ASPECTS OF

RELIGION The ability to make our world of meaning again and again The ability to make our world of meaning again and again

ASPECTS OF RELIGION 1 THE STORY (MYTHICAL) 1 THE STORY (MYTHICAL)

“You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him. But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death…” (Acts 2:22-24)

ASPECTS OF RELIGION 2 ENACTING (RITUAL) 2 ENACTING (RITUAL)

“And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him…” (Luke 24:30-31)

ASPECTS OF RELIGION 3 THEOLOGIZING (DOCTRINAL) 3 THEOLOGIZING (DOCTRINAL)

“…sacred doctrine is a science because it proceeds from principles established by the light of a higher science, namely the science of God and the blessed. Hence, just as the musician accepts on authority taught him by the mathematician, so sacred science is established on principles revealed by God…” Summa Q1, Art 4, pt. 1

ASPECTS OF RELIGION 4 COMMUNITY (SOCIAL) 4 COMMUNITY (SOCIAL)

“As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink, of one spirit.” (1 Cor 12:12-13)

ASPECTS OF RELIGION 5 LIVING (ETHICAL) 5 LIVING (ETHICAL)

“Whatever you do to the least of your brothers and sisters you do to me!”

ASPECTS OF RELIGION 6 PERSONALIZING (EXPERIENTIAL) 6 PERSONALIZING (EXPERIENTIAL)

“Love is repaid by love alone!” “Let nothing disturb you; nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God alone never changes!”

RELIGION 1. Mythical 2. Ritual 3. Doctrinal 4. Social 5. Ethical 6. Experiential THE ASPECTS OF RELIGION

GOSPEL LITURGY CREED CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER INTEGRITY VIRTUE THE LIVED REALITY OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION Social Justice

RELIGION 1. Mythical 2. Ritual 3. Doctrinal 4. Social 5. Ethical 6. Experiential THE ASPECTS OF RELIGION