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| What is the apostolic paradigm? |
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- We have life from God the Father
- We have death in the Son
-We have resurrection by the Spirit |
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| What are 2 themes of the apostolic paradigm? |
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-"Life, Death, Resurrection" -- Story of Jesus
- "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" |
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| The creeds of the church create? |
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| Doctrine of the Holy Spirit |
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| Doctrine of the End Times |
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| Doctrines of Election and Mission |
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- Justification
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- Sarametology |
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| Christianity from Consistent Sources of Christian Tradition |
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| Type of Christianity that draws from Constantiniasm (Civil Religion) and Folk Religion ( the kind of beliefs that carry on from generation to generation) and superstitions |
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| Christianity based on utility and pragmatism |
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| Therapeutic Moralistic Deism |
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| Draws from competing priorities and stimuli |
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| Draws from immigration and globalization and American Ingenuity |
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| Draws from the enlightenment especially 19th and 20th century "Master's of Suspicion" |
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| Said that belief in God destroys human freedom |
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| Says that in order to cope and maintain stability we construct a "new parent" beyond our sense who can't be destroyed. |
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| Says we did this (created religion) to hand over our wills to something else and now all we have left is will. |
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| Says that God is a coping mechanism that keeps us from driving our own vehicles. |
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| Says that belief in God sanctions exploitation the weak; Feudalism and capitalism are systems that allow for rules to have power over their followers. |
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| Says that belief in God constructs a super-personal, or impersonal projection w/ vestigial survival value. Says that God began by us projecting God out of nothing but abstractions; quarks of human intelligence. |
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| Says that belief in God reinforces mere private, personal 'taste' or group identity. |
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| We no God most profoundly in the place where we see him least there.... ________ ____________ |
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| God is not naturally accessible to us; thus epistemic humility |
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| Knowledge of God is a gift from God; thus "special Revelation" |
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| Knowledge of God is to be mediated, thus evangelism and reception |
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| God is other; thus via negative-- "the way of negation" |
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| God is known through what God does; thus via positiva |
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| God is personal; thus I thou knowledge |
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| What God does is deliver, justify, reconcile, include, heal, refine, mature, thus wisdom |
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| God is the living life giver. |
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| Heresies always compromise what three truths? |
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That Jesus is:
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-Fully Divine
- One Person |
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| What distinguishes us humans from other creatures? |
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| What three major areas offer evidence as to how we are different than other creatures? |
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Personal Faculties
Social Faculties
Official Faculties |
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| What are the 4 personal faculties that make us different than animals? |
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- We have souls
- Our human appearance
- Powers of reasoning or speaking
- Our ability to contemplate God and Self |
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| What is the one social faculty that makes us different? |
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| - Gendered families (tribes, tongues, and nations) rather than alternative animal social structures. |
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| What official faculties make us different than animals? |
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- Our vocation: cultivation of creation as God's earthly representatives
- Israel's covenant fellowship w/ God, cosmic authority, and holy likeness |
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| What are surface indicators of Jesus' divinity? |
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| What are deeper indicators of Jesus' divinity? |
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| Narrative roles and acts of Jesus |
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| What is an example of a surface indicator of Jesus' Divinity? |
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| John 1:1, in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God |
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| What are the deepest indicators of Jesus' divinity? |
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| Pervasive worship practices (liturgies) reflecting the church's relationship w/ Jesus |
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| What are some examples of deeper indicators of jesus' divinity? |
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- Jesus' role in creation
- His sovereignty over creation in calming the storm, walking on water, and feeding miracles
- Forgiving and Judging in healing the paralytic and judging in the sheep and goats
- Finally, his central role in salvation |
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| What are some examples of the deepest indicators of Jesus' divinity? |
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| - Councils of Nicea 325, Constantinople 381 in which both humanity and divinity are affirmed. |
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| Why are there so few mentions of Jesus Divinity in scripture? |
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| This is the case b/c of the conviction that Jesus is Lord did not need to be defended b/c people knew by Jesus' action and words that God in the flesh is who he was claiming to be! |
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| Jesus is a prophet/ Islam |
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| Jesus is divine only based on his moral standing/ Mormonism |
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| JC is competing between two natures and mary only mothered his human nature |
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| 2 natures before one after |
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| In Jesus human body he had a divine mind and soul |
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| Jesus mediates between man and God |
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| Spirit proceeds from the Father |
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| God as 1 source w/ 3 roles (Water, Ice, and Steam) |
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| Modalistic/ Monarchianism |
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| Spirit proceeds from the Father and Son |
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| Jesus inherits divinity like Maximus |
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| Dynamic Monarchianism and Arianism |
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| God's unity would merely be the moral unity of 3 individuals (Illustration: Egg) |
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| Universe has many causes and powers |
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| All is God (or there is none); the universe is absolute and self realizing |
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| God forms a pre-existing universe (and must respect its limit) |
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| Platonism and Process Theology |
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| As "first cause", God only causes inferior, mediating creators; the world is essentially evil |
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| Specificities are arbitrary, owing entirely to governing scientific or moral rules and principles |
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| Renaissance/ Ciceronian natural law |
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| Beings are manipulated and unfree (rather than God being w/ them) |
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| Like a watchmaker, God maintains no continuing active relationship w/ his creation |
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| God is known through what he does! |
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| God caused the universe from nothing |
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| Creatio Segunda or Creatio Mediata |
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| creating the universe in specifi ways |
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| Creatio Prima or Creatio Immediata |
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| creation of a "helper" or man/ providence or continued creation |
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