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Based on the etymology of the word itself, what does the word 'mysticism' mean? A.
Hidden B. Eccentric C. Abnormal D. Radical A. Hidden Which of the following best
characterizes mysticism? A. It is a way of being and living that rejects the world in order
to come close to the divine
A- The style of being and living in search of the mystery of God to be solved like a puzzle.
C- The style of being and living in search for fullness of mystery not to solve as a
problem but to celebrate it
D. It is a form of being and living that wants to dissolve every mystery in order to
proclaim the search for God impossible.
C. It is a form of being and living which seeks the fullness of mystery not to solve it as a
problem but to celebrate it
Mysticism as a new way of seeing - two essential features of this seeing?
A. It is a seeing of the good in the City of Man, and the Universal, or ethical
B. It is a seeing into the evil and sin of others and the evil and sin of the world
C. It is seeing hallucinations and seeing spirits
D. It is seeing what is most real and seeing through illusions about oneself, others and
the world
D. It is a seeing what is most real and seeing through illusions about oneself, other, and
the world
This stage of the 3 fold mystical journey involves reaching beyond one's experience to
enter into
the presence of the living God:
A. Purgation B. Illumination C. Union D. Denial
C. Union
This stage of the 3-fold mystical journey involves a great risk in that the experiences
elicited in this stage can easily become worshipped themselves rather than the God to
which these experiences point:
,A. Purgation B. Illumination C. Union D. Denial
B. Illumination
This stage of the 3-fold mystical journey involves the failure of language to express
theexperience:
A. Purgation B. Illumination C. Union D. Denial
D. Denial
This stage of the 3-fold mystical journey includes a flooding of the mind with the divine
light: A. Purgation B. Illumination C. Union D. Denial
B. illumination
his stage of the 3-fold mystical journey includes a purification from sin and particular
desire, inorder to open one to the Good that is present in all desire : A. Purgation B.
Illumination C. Union D. Denial
A. Purgation
Which of the following represents a turning away from the partial goods of the world
inorder to turn toward the Good that is more deeply within every good thing:A.
Purgation B. Illumination C. Union D. Denial
A. purgation
Which of the following best articulates what is meant by the "new polytheism"?
A. Today, all those different faith traditions give rise to so many new ways of believing in
God; our condition is a new kind of polytheism.
B. Today, there is a marked return of those ancient regimes of polytheism, making them
new.
C. Today, there are several ways to model God - our condition being that of a new kind
of polytheism.
D. Today, we are living in a time of radical pluralism, providing a plurality of meaning
and purposes which function as a new kind of polytheism.
D. today we live in times of radical pluralism. In this, a plurality of meaning and purposes
functions as a new kind of polytheism.
What does it mean to say there is no morality without God?
A. Since God names the transcendent Good, all morality by its nature presupposes this
as the foundation of any subsequent claims.
B. Since God is the highest being, all morality posits the authority of a highest being.
,C. Since God created everything, God created morality and, therefore, there can be no
morality without God.
D. Since God creates but never intervenes, morality replaces God's divine intervention.
A. because God names the transcendent Good, all morality by its nature presupposes
this as the grounding of any subsequent claims.
What, for Kierkegaard is 'purity of heart'?
A. That a person refuse to engage in profane practices that stain one's soul/heart.
B. That a person have a singleness of purpose so as to will one thing.
C. That one see to it that his/her heart be healthy and, as such, free from any impurities.
D. That one refuse to think or act in a lustful manner, remaining chaste
B. That one have a singleness of purpose so as to will one thing
n which centuries did Ignatius Loyola live?
A. 4th-5th
B. 19th-20th
C. 15th-16th
D. 10th-11th
C. 15th-16th
Which of the following is UNtrue about the life of Ignatius Loyola?
A. His family was of minor nobility but participated in the politics of the day
B. His mother influenced him throughout his whole life, inspiring him, as did Augustine,
day after day
C. He became a soldier at 17, and eventually goes on to found the Jesuit order
D. He had an active imagination and was inspired by stories of knights and chivalry
B. his mother influenced him throughout his whole life, inspiring him, like Augustine, day
after day
Which of the following is NOT true of the spiritual methodology of Ignatius?A. He made a
distinction between consolation as the absence of peace or joy while desolation is the
experience of peace and joy when imagining or contemplating future desires.
B. It is a method which grew out of his experience of recovering from a shattered leg
and the books which he read while recovering.
, C. He develops his method after much time in Spain, where he had visions and
eventually exchanges his clothes with a beggar.
D. It was methodology eventually crystallized in his book entitled The Spiritual
Exercises.
C. He develops his method after much time in Spain where he had visions and eventually
exchanges his clothes with a beggar
How does the idea of a single-minded purpose match up with the diversity of goods
available to a person?
A. It stands as necessarily in conflict with that diversity of goods, since the single is the
opposite of the diverse.
B. In no way does it conflict with the diversity of goods, but rather it is called upon to
support this very diversity by ordering it appropriately.
C. It does not relate in the least to show one how to pursue diversity of goods.
D. Representing the only means whereby it can transform the diversity of goods that
distracts us into one uniform good overcoming any sense of diversity.
B. it in no way conflicts with the diversity of good but is necessary to support that
diversity by ordering it appropriately.
Which of the following best captures the Ignatian notion of indifferentia?
A. It encourages believers to remain uncaring about the world in order to avoid being
temptedinto anything evil.
B. The latter tends to shun involvement with others because each time 'I have been
among men, I have returned from them less a man,' as Seneca put it.
C. The former teaches the art of being content with the now, and grateful and open for
the possibility of a 'more' that may, or may not, arrive.
D. It invites one to be literally indifferent to God so that one may know if one really knows
God at all
C. It invites one to be content with what one has, in gratitude, opening oneself to a
'more' which may or may not come
Among all the goods available to one, what is the method Ignatius invites adherents to
use when a decision must be made?
A. A very literalist approach to reading the life of Jesus, sticking closely to the very
words on the page; striving to act directly upon those words in one's practice.