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| study of salvation, what jesus role is in salvation |
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| study of christos (greek); & messiah (hebrew) meaning anoited one |
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| emphasizes divinity of jesus |
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| emphasizes humanity of Jesus |
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| Don't have many facts about when/where he was born |
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| Who is and was Jesus (for Christians - he continues to live) |
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| Difficult to know what Earthly Jesus said and did? |
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| Sources we have don't attempt to be unattached, but written many decades after Jesus lived and wrote in light of resurrection |
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| How many books are in New Testament? |
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| Which book is the earliest of NT? |
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| Paul's Letter to the Thessalonians |
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| Which Gospel is believed to be the earliest? |
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| how can we explain the similarities and differences among Mark, Matthew, Luke & John's Gospels |
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| End of time, what we see it to be |
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| Hebrew word, meaning anoited one |
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| priests & elders, closely connected with temple and only believe in Torah, rejecting life after death |
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| Jesus most closely connected with, Judeism traces back here |
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| Not mentioned in the New Testament, but known from archeology. Lived secluded life, Sons of Light, apocalyptic and had ritual washings |
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| Believed in military and political overthrow of Romans, violence & daggerholders |
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| Story with a deeper moral message |
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| Kingdom of God/Reign of Heaven |
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| God breaking history in a new way |
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| Jesus never accepts himself as the Messiah |
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| Jesus ate with the 'unclean' |
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| Jesus has more healer stories than any other |
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| physical sign of divine reality, and an instrument of explicitly making God present |
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| Difficulty to say what happened at ressurection |
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| hybrid, not a ghost - ate with disciples, not a corpse - could walk through walls |
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| women were there to see empty tomb but women had been devalued with opinions and it was embarrassing to believe them |
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| contradictions where they occur, not self evident that it was Jesus - required a 2nd look |
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| Marks Theological Portrait of Jesus |
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| Mark wrote for the community undergoing suffering. Theme of gospel was to portray Jesus suffering. |
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| Key issues for one's theology given crusification? |
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| Did Jesus have to die on the cross? If it was necessary - then for whom? Himself or the community? Humans needed to see his love for world? |
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| God IS Jesus, need to say explicitly through Church |
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| Does not have to be explicit, those who are trying to live a good life as well |
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| Shows us way to live, measure other religions as well as maintaining uniqueness of Jesus |
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| Many saviors (ex: Gandhi, MLK) God's Saving Grace |
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| Jesus represents God *normative mediator |
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| Jesus is the story of God *normative |
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| Jesus is the judgment of God, the critical voice *liberation theologians |
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| when we say Jesus is God, we claim an identity and a real symbol |
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| Only those who explicitly believe in Jesus |
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| Includes others outside of church |
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| 1962-65 St Peters, John gathered to ask involvement in political social and economic life |
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| Latin American bishops, church involved in politics caused turmoil |
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| Liberation theologian, 1971 - believed we should focus on poor and marginal |
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| 1979 - asked how poor would be affected by said policy |
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| unnoticed, built in the system |
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| correct living, emphasis on liberation theology |
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| starting point was concrete - a social or political issue that conversed with the non-person, those treated less human. It used tools such as sociology, economics, and systematic evil within institute. It analyzed conflict, with its mode active and challenging world and engagement |
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| Started at an abstract idea to the non-believer. Used classist tools and analyzed harmony and power, but said we come to know something passively and went to justify the way things are |
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| criticisms of liberation theology |
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| reduces faith to politics, uncritical use of marx, creates a separate church, encourages violence, faulty analysis of economics |
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| one sex is seen as superior |
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| language thinking gives privelege to males |
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| human centered, all humanity priveleged |
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| how society is structured giving advantage to males |
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| how much is gender a social issue |
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| form of a feminist, taking account race & gender |
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| vatican document, raises concerns about role of other religions |
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| formative in interreligious dialogue |
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| our religion has the truth, others are wrong |
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| we need to work at fostering geniune conversation among other religions |
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| there is not one true religion, one can be just as good as other |
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| 1986 pope paul 11 met here with other major religious leaders of world |
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| carry on dialogue with others, interested in others to enhance own beliefs |
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| emphasizes that we can not really know who God is |
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| claiming authority to himself, but credibility was weak because Jesus did not have a person he studied under |
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