Theology III

Question 1

Secularism

Sigmund Freud

Religion x4

Answer 1

Wish fulfilment
Thou shalt not question
Great services for human civilisation
Taming of the asocial instincts

Question 2

Secularism

Richard Dawkins

Best quotes

Answer 2

Faith is the great excuse to evade the need to think

Question 3

Secularism

Dawkins

Causes of religious belief (or such) x3

Answer 3

Psychological predispositions
Things for which there is no evidence
Infantile

Question 4

Secularism

Dawkins

The purpose of the universe

Answer 4

What is the colour of jealousy?

Question 5

Secularism

Dawkins

Atheism leading to immorality

Answer 5

Not the smallest evidence

Question 6

Secularism

Dawkins

Education

Answer 6

Hell-bent on ruing the scientific education of countless thousands of… young lives

Question 7

Secularism

McGrath

Criticism of Dawkins x4

Answer 7

Inept
[Not] evidence based scholarship
Aggressively peddled by athistic fundamentalism
Work of propaganda

Question 8

Secularism

McGrath

God of the Gaps + Rationality

Answer 8

Foolish move + increasingly abandoned
Inner consistency of belief in God

Question 9

Secularism

McGrath

Dawkins’ point on indoctrination hidden by

Answer 9

Noise of hyped-up rhetoric

Question 10

Secularism

Benedict XIV

x2

Answer 10

Atheist extremists [Hitler + Stalin]
Spiritual and human resources

Question 11

Liberation Theology

Matthew 5:5

Preferential option for the poor

Answer 11

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth

Question 12

Liberation Theology

Matthew 20:16

Reversal

Answer 12

The first shall be last and the last shall be first

Question 13

Liberation Theology

Leonardo Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology

Use of Marx/second act praxis x2

Answer 13

Marx as an instrument
Hermeneutic of our times

Question 14

Liberation Theology

Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

Praxis

Answer 14

Philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it

Question 15

Liberation Theology

José Ognacio González Faus, Systematic Theology

Structural Sin

Answer 15

When humans sin, they create structures of sin, which in their turn, make human beings sin

Question 16

Liberation Theology

Jose Miranda

Christianity is communist x2

Answer 16

For a Christian to claim to be anticommunist… without doubt constitutes the greatest scandal of our century
Notion of communism is in the New testament, right down to the letter

Question 17

Liberation Theology

John 18:36

Against a realised eschatology

Answer 17

My kingdom is not of this world

Question 18

Liberation Theology

Cardinal Ratzinger, Instruction

LT’s use of Marx

Answer 18

Critically unborrowed
Practical negation

Question 19

Liberation Theology

JP2, Reconciliatio et Penetentia

Rejects structural sin

Answer 19

Sin… is always a personal act

Question 20

Gender and Theology

Luke 10:38-42

Equality model

Answer 20

Story of Mary and Martha

Question 21

Gender and Theology

Ephesians 5:21-33

Hierachy model?

Answer 21

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ
Head

Question 22

Gender and Theology

Galatians 3:28

Equality model

Answer 22

There is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ

Question 23

Gender and Theology

1 Peter 3:7

Hierarchy model

Answer 23

The weaker sex

Question 24

Gender and Theology

Mulieris Dignitatem

Motherhood

Answer 24

Precisely the woman’s ‘part’

Question 25

# Gender and Theology RRR, Sexism and God-Talk | Jesus

Answer 25

Unwarranted idea Necessary ontological connection Maleness of Jesus' historical perosn and the maleness of the Logos

Question 26

# Gender and Theology RRR, Sexism and God-Talk | Jesus' maleness

Answer 26

No ultimate significance

Question 27

# Gender and Theology Mary Daly | God/Mary

Answer 27

If God is male then male is God Total rape victim

Question 28

# Gender and Theology Letty Russell | Mary Daly

Answer 28

Critique ad rem becomes a critique ad personam

Question 29

# Gender and Society Betty Friedan | Book and concept - 2nd wave feminism

Answer 29

The Feminine Mystique

Question 30

# Gender and Society Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex | 3x

Answer 30

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman It is civilisation as a whole that produces this creature The eternal feminine

Question 31

# Gender and Society Michel Foucault | Purpose of sex and controlling sexual practices

Answer 31

Ars erotica Scientia sexualis

Question 32

# Gender and Society Genesis 3:20 | Motherhood

Answer 32

Mother of all living

Question 33

# Gender and Society Mulieris Dignitatem | Encroaching upon men's role

Answer 33

Contrary to their own feminine 'originality'