Exam 2 Flashcards
(97 cards)
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What is the first grammar rule of creation?
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“Creation” does NOT primarily describe a thing but a relation.
*Creation implies a creator.
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What is the pantheist view?
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God is all things, a divinized world.
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What is the problem with the pantheist view?
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If true, God could not be the creator of all things. All things would be God, not from God.
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What is the panENtheist view?
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God is in and through all things.
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What is the problem with the panENtheist view?
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If true, God needs creation to be God. God is NOT separate from creation.
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What is the theist view?
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God is creator, but not sustainer.
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What is the problem with the theist view?
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God has no relationship with his creation
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What is transcendence?
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An affirmation about God that states that a Creator creates creatures and that the Creator is purposefully in control (lordship).
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What is relation?
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The belief that the creator is not a cosmology (world picture) or separate from the world, but a relation and in relation with the world.
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What is the second grammar rule of creation?
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“Creation” is not just a relation but a distinction.
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What is ontological distinction?
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The belief that God IS Being, while humans HAVE being. This means that our being participates in God’s Being.
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What is ontology?
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The study of existence and essence.
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What are the the 2 parts of Creation’s identity?
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- The Creator’s Identity.
- Theology’s Logic.
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What is the Creator’s Identity described as?
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Free, transcendent, generous, welcoming.
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What is Theology’s Logic described as?
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Divine simplicity and God does as God is.
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What analogy was Julian of Norwich given by God to describe Creation?
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A hazelnut.
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What is the third grammar rule of creation?
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Creation also names non-human creation.
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What are the names of all creatures in scripture?
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- All creatures are part of “good” creation.
- All give glory to The Creator.
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What are the names of the whole of creation in scripture?
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- Mysteriously entangled (drama of sin and redemption).
- Faithfully included (hope of coming kingdom).
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What is the fourth grammar rule of creation?
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Good Creation grammar requires some vocabulary.
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What are the vocabulary under the fourth grammar rule of creation?
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- Dependent.
- Active (God is working in the world).
- Contingent.
- Transcendent (God is above the world).
- Necessary.
- Fallen(Abuse of good things).
- Good (God creates in goodness).
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What is the goal of systematic theology?
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Wholeness and coherence.
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What is the trap of systematic theology?
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Trying to build a system and find the deepest experience of lived reality.
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What do we claim about revelation in God?
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God has been made known to us by God and God is mysterious.
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What do we claim about Trinity?
1. God is three and God is one.
2. God is great and good.
3. God is transcendent and active.
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What do we claim about Creation?
Creation is good but also fallen.
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What do Revelation, Trinity, and Creation lead us to believe about God?
1. The one God who is maker of heaven and earth, who is both perfectly great and perfectly good.
2. God is in charge and guides nature and history.
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What is the problem with God being perfectly great and good, but also guiding nature and history?
Natural disasters, famine, genocide, financial crises, and other terrible things under the watch of a good God.
Also, God is good, God creates in goodness, and what God creates is good.
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What is providence?
The claim about God's power and goodness as he continually works in/cares for the world.
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Why do we start by discussing providence and not evil?
We are learning to speak theologically by disciplining our speech.
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What are sin and death considered to be?
Corruptions of the world, meaning we must learn what is good, normal, and Godly, so we can identify what is evil/abnormal.
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What does most Christian theology agree on pertaining to providence?
1. God is sovereign.
2. What happens in history and nature happen with God's permission.
3. God's permission is always purposeful.
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What is evil?
Lack of order or justice.
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How do we speak theologically about evil?
To "be" is to be good ---> Evil as descent from existence.
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What does privatio boni mean?
Privation of the good.
*Lack, absence, and distortion.
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Who promoted privatio boni?
Augustine.
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What is evil seen as?
A parasite that intrudes upon and feeds on good, but has no identity of its own.
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What is The Manichean Temptation?
That good and evil are opposite and independent of one another. Evil can be defeated and gotten rid of.
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What is the thought surrounding how good and evil are not equals?
If evil is a fallen good, then evil is dependent upon good. For evil to exist, good must also exist.
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Do we have to worry about the ending?
No.
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What are the two categories of evil?
1. Moral.
2. Natural.
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What falls in the category of moral evil?
1. Evil done by persons.
2. Done in the opposite of someone's nature/demeanor.
ex: A kindly old man killing someone using a croquet mallet.
3. Intention and action are involved.
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What falls in the category of natural evil?
1. Sickness, Death, and Disaster. Things that seem unfair when they happen.
2. Not a part of original creation.
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What is Traditional Response 1 to evil?
The incomprehensibility of God.
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Who was considered to be an example of Traditional Response 1 in Scripture?
Job (as said by John Calvin).
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What does not work with Scripture for Traditional Response 1?
1. Job is being challenged/is seen as challenged. Abraham (Bargaining with God).
2. Is Job a prohibition or an encouragement to challenge and question God?
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What is the challenge to Traditional Response 1?
Unchallenged acceptance of evil.
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What is Traditional Response 2 to evil?
Adversity as evidence of divine punishment.
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What is divine punishment as it pertains to chastisement and punishment?
Punishment of the wicked and chastisement of the people of God (teach them a lesson).
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What works with Traditional Response 2?
Deuteronomic Tradition (Laws and punishment) + Wisdom Tradition (Follow this, good things happen).
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What challenges the Traditional Response 2?
1. Teachings of Jesus (divine punishment is not always tied to sin).
2. Blaming the victims and ignoring the perpetrators.
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What is Traditional Response 3 to evil?
Divine pedagogy (art of teaching).
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What is the explanation for how God makes use of suffering?
1. To turn us to God.
2. Reminders about where to cast our gaze.
*AUGUSTINE.
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Where in scripture is Traditional Response 3 found?
Romans 8 (I do not count my suffering due to future glory).
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What is the challenge to Traditional Response 3?
Suffering willingly assumed v. conditions that need changing.
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What is anthropology?
The study of people. Assumed to be described in a value neutral way.
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What is cultural anthropology?
The study of a certain group of people, often one that is not well understood by society.
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What is theological anthropology?
The study of human life within God's Creation. "...humanity both as God intends it to be and as it actually is.
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Why is theological anthropology important?
To answer both the what (what are people) and the what for (what are people for?).
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What is under option 2 for where does our knowledge about humanity comes from?
1. Who, How, and Where (No idea what we are doing).
2. Revelation Christ brings (Became human once Christ appears).
3. Knowledge as revelation.
4. Niebuhr: enigma to ourselves.
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What is under option 1 for where does our knowledge about humanity comes from?
1. Cartesian turn (Made knowledge individual).
2. Theology's proper object (Human).
3. Elevation of human reason (Trustworthy).
4. Confidence of science (Pure knowledge of the world).
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What is tension 1 of characterizing people?
Humans are both animal and spiritual (psychosomatic).
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What falls under the animal side of being human?
1. Bodily life.
2. Joined with a temporal life.
3. Creaturely.
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What is bodily life?
Possessing a nature with its limits and possibilities.
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What are the limits of bodily life?
Food dependency, lifespan, finite, limited vision, limited hearing, etc.
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What is under joined with a temporal life?
Dust of the Earth: Adam (dust person) or adamah (earth person).
Human life was given with the rest of animal and non-animal life.
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What is the description of creaturely?
Finite, limited, physical.
A gift, not a curse or degradation.
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What falls under the spiritual side of being human?
1. The soul.
2. The spirit.
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What is the description of the soul?
The soul is body and spirt in one: the personal identity of each human being. Not otherworldly, but bodily; not wholly spirit, but how we commune with God in our bodily form.
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What is the spirit described as being?
Not greater than the body.
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What are the two unhelpful alternatives to Tension 1?
1. Denial of body (The Gnostic Temptation).
2. Humanism (The Autonomous Temptation).
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What is denial of body (The Gnostic Temptation)?
Denial of the importance of fleshly existence through dualism of body and spirit (denial of body) and emphasis on escape from the body (body does not matter).
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What is the dualism of body and spirit called?
Hierarchal dualism.
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What is humanism (The Autonomous Temptation)?
Humanity as the measure of human capacity and the measurement of people in terms of material production or potentials (What you have and what you do).
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What is Tension 2 of characterizing people?
Imago Dei.
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What are the two subheadings under imago dei?
1. In the image (Static).
2. To the likeness (Dynamic).
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What are the two parts of in the image?
1. A kind of image.
2. Ontological.
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What is under a kind of image?
1. Christ as image.
2. Natural image (Jesus) v. images "by imitation" (Humans).
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What is ontological?
State of being.
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What are the two parts of to the likeness?
1. New creation.
2. A moral trajectory.
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What is under new creation?
New possibility through sin + healing.
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What is under moral trajectory?
Made in the image, yet not perfected in the image.
*CHRISTOLOGICAL
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What are the three ways we describe the image of God?
1. Substantial.
2. Functional.
3. Relational.
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What is the substantial description?
Humans share something more with God than animals do.
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What is the functional description?
God gave humans a role: Dominion over the Earth.
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What is the relational description?
We are in relation with God and others.
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Who discussed Imago dei and Freedom?
Bonhoeffer.
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What did Bonhoeffer believe Imago dei did for us?
1. It reveals our human nature (Nature, identity, and freedom revealed to us fully in Incarnation/Jesus appearing).
2. It gives meaning to our existence: to exist is to exist in Christ. Resurrection is key to what it means to be human.
3. Being human is something we are given and taught.
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How does Imago dei name our freedom?
1. God is free + we are made in the image of God= We have freedom. Freedom FOR God, which is given to us and happens to us.
*God was free for us in creating us.
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What does The Gospel say about freedom?
We are free through Jesus Christ, who was bound and then was freed.
*We are most free when attached to Christ.
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How does Christ help us understand Bonhoeffer's point of view?
God's freedom is freedom FOR us, which lets us understand freedom as being free for.
*Freedom is between persons but constituted by God's relationship.
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Why freedom and not reason?
Reason misses the wholeness of being human (spiritual and social) and is too individualistic.
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What does sicut deus mean?
Away from God or cut from God (a fraction of God).
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Why is freedom from others a negative thing?
It is a rejection of freedom because you are thinking that you do not need others. Also, a rejection of creatureliness.
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What does freedom from others lead to?
Competition instead of relation.
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What three things are you alienated from in freedom from others?
1. God.
2. Your true self.
3. Others.
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How did Bonhoeffer reinterpret Irenaeus's perspective?
Imago Dei was given by God to us as a gift. Following sicut deus leads to a rejection of the relation to God as creator and rejection of imago dei.
