Exam 1

Question 1

Book X- Memory

Answer 1

Christianity is a faith that remembers, Augustine is a part of the remembering.

Question 2

Why is memory important for Augustine?

Answer 2

Memory is powerful, almost real. Memory is involved in forgiveness: can we forgive, and can we forget?

Question 3

What is that Augustine loves when he loves God?

Answer 3

Augustine remembers his love for God, but is aware that God is changeless, eternal, beyond memory

Question 4

What does he say about memory?

Answer 4

Ch 17. Memories we ‘find’. Wants to discover why he longs for God (who is beyond memory). Therefore God is beautiful, god intervenes.

Question 5

Incarnation

Answer 5

the Word made flesh

Question 6

Transcendence

Answer 6

God’s absolute difference from the world

Question 7

Immanence

Answer 7

God’s presence in and through the world

Question 8

Crucifixion

Answer 8

The death of Christ reveals that man was God, paradoxical element. God’s love is sacred because he gave his own life, and is doubting: “Why have you forsaken me?”

Question 9

Gnosticism

Answer 9

Followers believed to have had secret knowledge (about what Jesus told the Apostles). Predestination, dualism, rejected incarnation
Marcion: edit other Gospels and writings

Question 10

Rule of faith

Answer 10

Handed down from the Apostles through time. Linked through history to Christ

Irenaeus believed this

Question 11

Kenosis

Answer 11

self emptying, in order to be powerful, you must let go of everything

Question 12

Freedom for Christians

Answer 12

Important for Christians because it is their belief that they will go to heaven when they die, and there is life after death

Question 13

Creation

Answer 13

God as the creator, God created with the word
Science vs. God
Two creation accounts right next to each other, not necessarily scientific accounts of the creation of people

Question 14

Myth

Answer 14

The Bible includes a lot of myth, but is about truth. Gives way for teaching fundamental ideas of Christianity and to a conquer a fear of not knowing

Question 15

Conversion

Answer 15

Using old ideas to describe something new. God becomes one of us in flesh. To explain this, Christians have to rethink who God is, and the world around them to account for what has happened
Christians go about to try and understand their faith and the world around them
Paul’s description of Christ in the Kenotic Hymn
Augustine’s Conversion

Question 16

Communion

Answer 16

Reception of Christ in Eucharist. Shared faith of all Christians, ‘we believe’ TOGETHER (Augustine believes confessing in private is not legitimate

Question 17

God and Time

Answer 17

God is eternal, time is always changing, eternity and time oppose one another which makes it difficult to accept God ‘entering’ or being ‘present’ in the world.
Augustine:
‘mediator’ Christ, who is God: God enters time
God is fully present everywhere, but not contained by the world. We can know the eternal God because he has met us in time (the burning bush)

Question 18

Logos

Answer 18

Prologue of the Gospel of John: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
logos means- word, idea, reason

Question 19

“Dawn Over St. Petersberg”, Fyodor Vasilyev

Answer 19

refers to “God’s Grandeur”

How the ugly trodden world that we often ignore is always being made new like the dawn

Question 20

“The Holy Trinity”, El Greco

Answer 20

“God’s Grandeur”

to understand the winged dove and hovering imagery from the poem, the Holy Ghost is bent over the world, brooding with warm breast, the dove is the Holy Spirit. Always refers back to Genesis, when God’s spirit hovers over the waters as He creates the world.

Question 21

“The Blind Model”, Charles Goldie

Answer 21

refers to “The Leaden Echo, the Golden Echo”
vulnerability and the beauty paradoxically in the way that beauty is able to face what is ugly; to see it without fear, the painting is beautiful even though the man’s eyes are marked

Question 22

“Harbingers of the Resurrection”, Nikolas Ge

Answer 22

refers to “The Caged Skylark”
carrier or someone who brings in something, refers to the end of the poem when Hopkins talks about our bones being risen (our own resurrection), and all of Christian life carries the resurrection forward with it

Question 23

Concupiscence

Answer 23

Augustine’s idea of wrongly- ordered love; disproportionate/ ugly love (you love something more than it is worth)
opposite of concupiscence is rightly- ordered love; loving God first helps us love everything rightly

Question 24

Faith and history

Answer 24

1. Christ is still present and among us (the ‘past’ is still present)
2. Christianity is a faith that remembers; the resurrection actually occurred in history, historical handing on of it through Christianity is another way they are linked to the past

Question 25

Infinity and Finitude

Answer 25

God's freedom is infinite; God's presence is infinite, meanwhile we are finite and not present everywhere Beauty helps us to understand these problems

Question 26

Epiphany

Answer 26

manifestation of something

Question 27

Theophany

Answer 27

manifestation of God, theos Christ himself is an example of theophany, along with the burning bush

Question 28

Paradox

Answer 28

coincidence of opposites infinity, finitude eternity, time beauty is also paradoxical

Question 29

Platonism

Answer 29

Augustine is a Platonist (which is why he is worried about the locality of God). rightly- ordered love (harmonious) is beautiful beauty from symmetry (harmony), proportion

Question 30

Impassibility

Answer 30

God does not change; God does not have emotions; God does not suffer important for Augustine because it means that his love is unchanging to passeo is to change, an emotion is to experience a change

Question 31

Resurrection

Answer 31

Christ (who is God) defeats death; he rises again sign of his divinity Christians participate in his resurrection: they are brought into new life, and they bring this new life into the world

Question 32

Redemption

Answer 32

salvation, healing, restoration of the whole world through the resurrection

Question 33

Beauty

Answer 33

``` new/ surprising/ immense frail, able to die, vulnerable paradox mysterious God as beautiful; most beautiful, differently beautiful than us ```

Question 34

Prayer

Answer 34

1. Giving of the whole self to God | 2. Augustine sees us as creatures of prayer, creatures meant for prayer, and meant to give our whole selves to God

Question 35

Creation, Genesis

Answer 35

Passages: Genesis 1:26, created in our likeness and image Genesis 1:4, Light is good Genesis 1:16, male, paternity all- powerful, speaks into existence, artistic: creation is beautiful

Question 36

Burning Bush, Exodus

Answer 36

tangible, burning bush: still powerful more of a divide, the holy ground. Moses hiding his face (something to be feared in God) God defies the laws of creation

Question 37

Prologue, Gospel of John

Answer 37

1. The most important verse: The word God are the same- the Word is God. 2. characteristics: • God is mysterious, • God is welcoming: if they receive the Word/ light, they are children of God. • God as creator: everything was created through the Word. • The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, clarifies that Jesus is God, and he also really became one of us • incarnation- "en-fleshing"- technical term for God becoming a man • Human: he became flesh • The light- truth ("see clearly"); darkness is an absence, and light always drives it away (even though it can't drive light away) 3. Comparison/ contrast to what we read last week • God created with the Word- God speaks, and things come to be

Question 38

Kenotic Hymn, Philippians

Answer 38

Kenosis: Christ emptied himself taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the linkeness of men (2:6-7)

Question 39

Augustine, Book I

Answer 39

God is within Augustine, and all of his creations. God is present in prayer, in A's soul FULLY PRESENT EVERYWHERE

Question 40

Book I cont.

Answer 40

Classical education, almost baptized, but wasn't. concupiscence communion lent

Question 41

Augustine Book VIII, Conversion

Answer 41

2 wills (carnal and spiritual) spirit vs. flesh delighted in vain, hesitant to change, force of habit (power of habits, sets of decisions that become second nature to us) wants God to act, call him forth; feels profound guilt. Change as cleansing the heart (his heart's truest love and desire is God); he is confident that God is good