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Jesus Christ - person and substance in greek

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Hypostasis and Ousia

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Example of harm of conversion

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John Chau, North Sentinel Island

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Pluralist who says that exclusivism is as bad as white supremacy

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Paul Knitter

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Propositional Logic guy and book

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Gary Slater, Scriptural Reasoning and the ethics of public discourse

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Former terrorist who says that reading is what converted him

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Maajid Nawaz, Radical. Established the Quiliam foundation

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William Lane Craig on secular society

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Christianity is ‘de-legitimated and marginalised’ if not allowed

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Who criticises contemporary society’s views on Christianity

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Paul Eddy

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What is the Catholic position on missionary activity

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‘Primar service of the Church’

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Who refuses to convert Jewish people?

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Giles Fraser. Due to the anti-semitic history

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Statistics on Christians in 2011 vs 2019

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59% vs 51% (Linda Woodhead’s research)

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Who emphasises importance of keeping religious texts in their own language

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Tom Hare - ‘retain their sacred character’

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What is the concept of wanting to be part of the Church?

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Votum Ecclesia

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What does Hans Urs Von Balthasar believe?

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Christianity should not be ‘watered down’ in the face of multiculturalism

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What is D’Costa’s cricitism of exclusivism and pluralism?

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Exclusivism - guilty of Christomonism
Pluralism - it is another form of exclusivism,

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What is Lumen Gentium

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Document which states that other religions have partial truth

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Luther’s critique of inclusivism

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People can only do good actions through their faith. Like fire and warmth, good actions only come through faith in God

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Who supports Hick’s pluralism against Sinkinson’s idea of revelation

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Avery Dulles - internal event, giving ‘new awareness’.

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Who argues against Swinburne in issues of the ‘why’ of physics

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Mark Tegmark

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What does Sam Harris say?

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Christianity does have a lot of fundamentalists - 1/4 believe that Christ will return in their lifetime.
Atheism has no content so cannot cause violence
Atheistic societies are the healthiest etc

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How does Dawkins describe Yahweh

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‘Bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser’

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What does Stanley Hauerwas argue?

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Church protects against totalitarianism by providing morals etc.

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What proof does Augustine give of Akrasia

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‘Only picked them so that I could steal’

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What does Romans 1:20 say, and how does Barth counter it? Which other scholar can you bring in?

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Supports Natural Theology - the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Barth says that it argues against natural theology because 5 verses later it talks about how humans commit idolatry. Grenz and Olson.

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What analogy is used by Calvin

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Mirror and Theatre.

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What does Gregory Palomas argue?
Essence-energies distinction. Interact with God's energies, not himself. E.g. we interact with sunlight, not the sun
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Who believes that Hell is a spiritual state, the result of conscience, a symbol of alienation and literal
Origen, Gregory of Nysa, Tillich, Dante (and Calvin).
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Beliefs on Purgatory
Foretaste of Heaven and Hell - Ambrose Probationary school - Origen Redemption of whole creation - Gregory of Nyssa Literal place where purged - Dante
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What is Calvin's term for God's hidden will
Voluntas abscondia
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What is Calvin's view of election/predestination
Double predestination. Must act morally because the elect must become more aware of their sinful state and the reprobate must not give an excuse to be punished in Hell
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Barth on election and atonement
Jesus is both subject and object of election - Christ dies on behalf of people, but also reveals his friendliness to humanity in doing so. Distinction between 'calling' and 'status' - everyone has the same status as being elected but people realise the calling differently.
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What is Barth's term for the atonement
Substitutionary theory of the atonement - in the hands of God but not a doctrine of terror
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Origen on Hell
Spiritual state. Each sinner kindles his own fire, interior anguish. Not eternal - he believed in universlalism
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Greek word for universalism
Apokatastasis
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Justification for Sensus Divinitatis
Universal consent argument - Calvin and Cicero. Considering so many people believe in the divine it must be true. Appreciation of asthetics Conscience
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Aquinas on Faith
Unformed faith - finding intellectual reasons for God's existence Formed faith - assenting to intellectual reasons as true.
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What is Tolstoy's moral system called?
The Gospel of Jesus Christ
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What is Brandon's book called?
Jesus and the Zealots
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Who counters Aslan and Brandon
Bammel and Moule, Jesus and the Politics of the day
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Who ultimately rejects Jesus as Political Liberator
David R. Catchpole, the Trial of Jesus
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Give some Bible verses which show Jesus as a spiritual reformer
Mark 5 vs Leviticus 15, healing a woman who was considered unclean due to vaginal bleeding Luke 10 vs Leviticus 19, parable of the good samaritan
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What is the word for substance
Homoousios
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What is the Chalcedonian definition of Jesus
Truly God and Truly Man
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What is God bearer word?
Theotokos
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What is the Catholic Church's view on miracles, vs a Low Christological one?
'Bear witness that Jesus is the Son of God' Give spiritual insight - e.g. calming of the storm is a symbol of order over chaos
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What does Bart Erhman say?
Only in John's gospel Jesus claims to be divine, even though in Mark's gospel Mark thinks he is divine but there is no self-identification
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What does Reimarus say about miracles
Jesus only did them to those of faith, not those who were 'learned' or 'sensible'. Also the text was written in Greek so no Palestinian Jews could understand it and refute it
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How does C.S. Lewis agree with 'Religionless Christianity'
Screwtape Letters
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What does Harriet Taylor argue?
Enfranchisement of Women - first wave, rights to vote, social equality etc
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What does Kathy Rudy argue?
Sex and the Church - Conservative.
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Who refutes McLanahan's findings?
Jessie Bernard
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What does Mulieris Dignitatem say about men caring for children?
Not psychologically predisposed to parenthood
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Who reinterprets the idea of Mary?
Ivone Gebara - she's a single mother and dealing with her failure.
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What is the word used in Ephesians 5 for head?
Kephale - source of life. Emphasis is on relationship, not authority?
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Who argues that motherhood can be good if freely chosen?
Mary O'Brien
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When is God described like a woman?
Isaiah 42:14 - described like a woman in labour
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Who describes God like a woman
Julian of Norwich
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What does Daly call Christian morality
Phallic morality
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Which passages of the Bible show its misogyny
Deuteronomy 21, Numbers 31
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What is the 'Background' described as
Dionysian
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What does Janet Soskice commit?
Modalism
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What does Barth's exclusivism commit?
Christomonism (D'Costa)
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How does RRR interpret bible?
Golden Thread, Diachronic Exegesis
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Who does RRR reference?
Montanists
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Problem with RRR's Golden thread?
'Canon within a canon' (though RRR says they do this anyway)
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What does Paolo Freire argue for
Conscientisation, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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What are the 3 mediations?
Socio-analytic, hermeneutic, practical
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What does Juan Luis Segundo argue for
Hermeneutic of Suspicion (The Liberation of Theology)
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Who says that if you give food you are a saint but if you ask why they have no food you are a communist?
Dom Helder Camerara
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What does Kee argue?
Secularisation leads to alienation as well. Historical Materialism is an ideology - Marx allows ideologies. You can also have Christianity in 'spiritual socialism' if you act more on Marx now

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