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(2) Death and Afterlife Flashcards

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Definition: disembodied existence

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Existing without a physical body

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Definition: resurrection

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Living on after death in a glorified physical form in a new realm

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Definition: beatific vision

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A face to face encounter with God

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Definition: purgatory

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A place where people go temporary after death to be cleansed from sin in order to confront God

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Definition: Election (theologically)

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Predestination, chosen by God to go to heaven or hell

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Definition: Limited election

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The view that God chooses a small number of people to go to heaven

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Definition: Original Sin

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A state of wrongdoing that is innate in people from the fall of man in genesis

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Definition: unlimited election

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The view that all people are called to salvation but only a few will be saved

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Definition: universalism

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The view that all people will be saved

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Definition: Parable

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A story to highlight a moral message

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Definition: particular judgement

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Judgements for each person at the point of death

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Definition: parousia

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Used in Christianity to refer to the Second Coming of Christ

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Christian teaching about the afterlife- physical body

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  • life after death will take physical resurrection, with a renewed spiritual body
  • Seen in Jesus’ resurrection
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How Christian teaching on the physical body when resurrection rejects Plato

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  • Plato idea that soul and body part of disembodied existence
  • body dies but soul moves on
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Quote in Genesis about Abraham’s resurrection

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“He was gathered to his people”

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How could Jesus’ resurrection not demonstrate that your body continues in the afterlife

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  • May be a metaphor for how his image (physical body continues to live in our memory
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Problem with Jesus’ ascension

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  • we here it was a resurrected body or a spiritual form

- people didn’t recognise Jesus after he rose

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Is the belief in a physical resurrection central to Christian doctrine?

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Yes

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What is a common feature in Jesus’ resurrection accounts

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  • white light from clothes, gleaming
  • Jesus’ reaction of hope when people were worried about where his body had gone
  • resurrection early morning
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Why do the resurrection accounts differ?

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  • writer subjective
  • own writing styles and personalities
  • different audiences at different times
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What was Dante’s view of Hell (13th C)

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  • Dante’s inferno
  • 9 levels of hell that got worst as u go down
  • lower u go down is for the more sin you committed
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Central Christian beliefs about the afterlife

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  1. Some form of physical resurrection, glorified version
  2. Still be the individuals we were, we will not merge with God
  3. Life after death is a gift from God, not a natural process
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Aquinas on the afterlife

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  • believed that human beings had rational souls which set them apart from other life forms
  • reason leads us to be closer to God
  • true happiness can only come with knowing God in the afterlife where we experience the beatific vision
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What is heaven + quote

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  • a place where the faithful go
  • no sin as people are purified
  • “fathers house has many rooms”
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Bernard Williams view on heaven

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  • no progression

- no pleasure and potential to be boring

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What is purgatory?

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  • Temp state where your sins will be cleansed
  • Catholic belief
  • only can go to heaven
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Controversial view on purgatory

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  • indulgences

- people could “buy” place to heaven

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Karl Rahner view on purgatory

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  • state of self imposed pain during your lifetime?
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What is hell?

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  • permanent separation away from God for eternity
  • eternal pain
  • below physical world
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Potential problems with idea of hell

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  • form of social and religious control?
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Julian of Norwich view of hell

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  • saw it as empty

- God is all forgiving and everyone gets there in the end

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How do Christian teachings on the afterlife affect moral behaviour?

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  • attempt to influence us to do good
  • if you accept Jesus and go to Church people may use it to say it is ‘enough’
  • all loving God may mean hell is empty so our actions do not matter
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Kant argument against the Christian teaching affect upon moral behaviour

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We should do good because we know it is the right thing to do (not for any other reason)

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What other influences effect our moral behaviour outside the church?

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Conscience

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Different approaches on the afterlife

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  • physical places, eg. Heaven with angels and hell with fire
  • spiritual resurrection away from our body
  • purgatory used to repent
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Problems with idea of perfection in an afterlife if we have knowledge of our life on earth

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  • we would be able to remember all the negative events and would lead to sadness
  • against perfect happy state
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Different ideas about election

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  • election that some go to heave

- everyone goes to heaven due to omni benevolent God

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Augustine’s view on election

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  • chosen when we ask for and accept God’s grace

- we need God to go to heaven

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John Calvin’s (16th C) view on the afterlife

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  • some punishes by God
  • God has full control
  • Predestination
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Problem with Calvin view on the afterlife

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  • no room for free will

- we can act as we want

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Barth (19th to 20th C) view of the afterlife

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  • unlimited election but have to be good

- Jesus’ redemption key to saving us from our sins

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Hick (20th-21st C) view on the afterlife

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  • God save everyone no matter what
  • universalist, everyone religion accesses God in a certain way
  • we grow closer to God in heaven
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Pope Benedict XVI (20th-21st C)

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  • Hick’s approach disregards Jesus and his death is pointless
  • Jesus’s death didn’t necessarily save everybody, was not a cosmic even
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What does the parable of the sheep and the goats tell us about the afterlife?

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  • disparity between heaven and hell
  • people who go to heaven are those who “fed the hungry”, “helped the sick”
  • moral actions act as reward
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What does Luke:19-31 teach about the afterlife?

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  • material objects don’t contribute, your ‘goodness’ is defined by how you help others or keep faith
  • eternal punishment or reward
  • rich man seeing Lazarus and Abraham and reflects and feels guilt as people had the tools (scripture) to be good
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Does God’s judgement take place immediately after death or at the end of time?

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  • Irenaeus believer in final judgement
  • People wait in happiness or pain until final judgement
  • judged at death (parable rich man and Lazarus)
  • Jesus said to criminal “truest I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise”
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Are heaven and hell eternal?

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  • Aquinas view on timeless as God is
  • no beginning or end removes sense of repetition
  • question wether loving God would punish eternally
48
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Is heaven the perfection of creation?

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  • revelation “a new heaven and a new earth” which suggests living similar to before the fall
  • literal approach suggest second coming, ‘Parousia’
  • missionary act to transform
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Is Purgatory a state everybody goes too?

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  • Protestant segue Christ’s redemption was a victory over sin
  • Rise of Martin Luther who rejected indulgences
  • Catholic view that it is necessary purification

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