SOPHOMORES

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FRESH: Study Guide 10/23

Gentlemen: This is a brief overview of what we covered in class. Please review your notes for the information.
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- Five Stages of Buddha’s Life as outlined in class (not in text book)
o Siddhartha Gautama
• Son of a Chief
ß The “Enlightened one” – at what point in his life?
ß Passes through 1st two stages of life
ß Recognizes what of Gautama

o Age 29: What happens to Buddha? What does he do?
ß Abandons Yoga and extreme asceticism (Stage II)
ß Leaves wife and child (Stage III)
ß Where does he then go?

- 313 Million Buddhists in today’s world; 558,000 in North America

- Creation of Buddhism:
o When does this happen?
o How does this happen?
o Reaction in world of India/China?

- What is the text’s way to describe Buddhism?

- What is the primary concern of Buddhism?

- 4 Noble Truths
o All things in the world entail sorrow or suffering
o The cause of suffering is desire, the craving of the pleasures of life
o The end of suffering will come only when the craving for pleasure is ended; one must let go of one’s desires
o The end of craving will come if a person follows the Eightfold Path
ß What are all the elements of the Eightfold Path?

- Way of Buddha?
o What are the differences of Hinduism and Buddhism?
o Rejection of Hinduism – What are the elements?

- Views Points on Eightfold Path
o Theravada
o Mahayana

- Buddhist Monks
o How were they created?
o Why were they created?
o What was Buddha regarded as? (ie: his persona)
o Where are the majority of the monks today?
o What is their primary focus or duties?

- Kinds of Buddhism
o Many different offshoots
o Theravada
o Mahayana
o Tantric
o Zen

- Buddhist Scriptures (Short section found in text book)

SOPHOMORE: Study guide for 10/23

New Testament: Mark’s Gospel
- Identity of Author
o Hypotheses of who or what Mark is/was
o Idea of Mark as author (the idea is clear, what is it)

- How was Mark written? What are the components? What is the geography?

- Key Themes:
o Prelude

- Jesus’ Baptism & Testing (in the dessert)

- Mark 1:14 – 8:30
o Who is Jesus?

- Healing Miracles
o Know some of the following examples:
ß Leper (1:40)
ß Man with a withered hand (3:1)
ß The bleeding woman
ß Deaf man
ß Blind man
ß Peter’s mother-in-law

- Exorcisms
o Man in the Synagogue (1:21)
o Raging possessed man in the Gentile territory of Gedara (5:1)

- Nature Miracles
o Calming the storm (4:35)
o Walking on water (6:45)
o Feeding of the 4,000 (8:1) and the 5,000

- Raising people from the dead?
o Jairus’ Daughter

- What is the miracle form found within Mark’s gospel?

- What do each of the above ‘types’ of miracles represent? (Jesus vs. life)
o What is Mark trying to teach us by way of the explaining the miracle stories?

- Son of Man
o What is meant by this term?
o Who is Jesus? How does Jesus fit into this role? Who is the Son of Man?
o Where do you and I sit in relation to this term?

- Scriptural background of the Son of Man (2 quotes named in the text & in my notes)
o Mark 13:26
o Daniel 7:13

- Transfiguration

- The Human Jesus
o Mark: vivid portrait of the man of Jesus
o Mark 10:21

- Jesus: The Messiah
o Not accepted in the original “thought of what the Messiah was supposed to be”
o What was the ideal Messiah? Who did he/she share the same bloodline with?
o Mark 8:27-30: Jesus’ asks disciples who he is…

- The Paschal Mystery
o Passion, Death, & Resurrection of Jesus
o Mark 1-13: What is this considered by some scholars?

- The Final Hours of Jesus
o Different elements

FRESH / SOPH: Extra Credit

Gentlemen,

As promised, below is an extra credit opportunity. You are to do only ONE of the options below:

1. Attend mass this week. Create your own homily based on the readings from the Sunday Mass. In addition, you are to also critique the homily of your pastor (priest). The summary should be no more than ONE page long! Please double space the paper (if you need to shrink the size, do so - to keep it under one page).
- Indicate the day you attend (Saturday or Sunday) and the parish you attended.

2. Attend the BLCC's (Black and Latino Culture Club) showing of the move "Romero" on Friday afternoon. In a one page submission, write your observation of the movie. Constructively critique the film and the character (this does not mean that your critique is to be negative).

3. Watch the Discovery Channel special: "Discovery: Atlas - Australia" which airs on Sunday, 10/22/06, at 9:00 PM. In a one page submission, write your observation of the show. Focus, primarily, on the religious elements that are mentioned within the show (the Aborigines and other religions, etc.).
- http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/atlas/atlas.html?clik=netmain_feat1

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- ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE IN CLASS ON MONDAY. I WILL NOT ACCEPT EXTRA CREDIT AFTER THIS TIME!!

- NO MORE THAN ONE PAGE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED!

- The extra credit will be 5% points added to the test on Monday, 10/23/06.

SOPHOMORES: Limbo

Gentlemen:

As we went over in class, the issue of Limbo in the Roman Catholic Church has been officially 'dealt with' this week. If you're interested in reading about Limbo and the Church's opinion, you may look at the following Inquirer article from Thursday.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/religion/15680906.htm

Enjoy the long weekend,

Mr. McGravey

SOPHOMORE: Study Guide 10/4

** Please note the test will cover pages 74-82 AND pages 89-97 AND 102-111. The parable information on pgs. 100-101 was covered on the previous test. **

1. Recognize the Infancy Narratives of Jesus: Differences between Matthew and Luke

2. Recogize those who act in opposition / difference from Jesus: Pharisees, Saducees, Zealots, & Essenses

3. Know the miracle "types" - and examples from Mark's Gospel so far.

4. Know Jesus' teaching regarding the Kingdom of God / Reign of God.

5. Know Jesus' obedience to his father's will: Transfiguration

6. What is the Epiphany?

7. Know the questions that we went over in class yesterday.
- Responses can be found at the following address for download: www.stjoesreligion.wordpress.com

8. Know Mark Chapters 1-7

9. Know the information regarding Herod from the in-class video.

FRESHMEN: Study Guide for 10/4

**Please note that the test will cover pages 123-133.

1. Know the vocabulary indicated on the pages above.

2. Know what the "Hindu Concept of Self" is -- Atman, how it relates to Brahman?
- What is it?
- How is it defined?
- Describe its elements.
- Is it re-incarnated? Is the personality of a person re-incarnated?

3. Moksha

4. Law of Karma: Be able to explain this to me. What is it? How does it work? How does it affect your Atman?

5. The Hindu Ways to union with the Ultimate Reality: The 4 Different Types of Yoga.
- Through Thought

- Through Love
** What are the 4 types of relationship with the Brahman in this Yoga?

- Through Work

- Through Psychological Experiment / Examination

- Be able to describe the different types listed above.

6. The 4 Life Stages: Be able to explain them to me. Give me as much detail as you can about the four different stages.

7. Be able to recognize what the "life-cycle" rituals are.

8. Be able to talk about Sacred Cows, Morality, & Scripture (Smirti, Shruti) -- also Vedas, Brahmanas, & Bhagavad Gita. --> Be able to define those.

9. Also, recognize the information from the video (about Veranasi -- Ganges, Sheeva, Ganga, Holy City/City of Light, etc.