Ch.5 Flashcards
The signal overarching interpretation or grand story of relality
Meta narrative
Story of historical events
Historical narrative
Arabic word for nation, the collective community of Muslims around the world
Ummah
6 acts in bible
Act 1- God creates His Kingdom: Gen 1&2
Act 2- Rebellion in God’s Kingdom: Genesis
Act 3- Promise of restoration: historical books
Act 4- Kingdom Restored:Gospels
Act 5- Kingdom Displayed: Acts
Act 6- Consumation of God’s Kingdom: Revelation
The genre, structure, and grammar of a text
Literary Context
The time, place, culture, and audience of a text
Historical Context
A story telling technique in which an overview of a story is given before the story is laid out in specific detail
Rectulpitulation
6 biblical take always from Creation story
- Creation account showcases God’s glory
- Creation account confronts paganism
- Creation account establishes humans as the climax of creation, man
- Creation account gives meaning to the human race
- Creation account gives meaning to sexuality
The belief that everything can be explained in terms of natural causes
Naturalism
The belief that everything is divine
Pantheism
The belief astronomical events line up with human events
Astrology
The belief that knowledge of God is ultimately inexcessible and unknowable
Agnosticism
The view that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, truth, or value
Nihilism
Means shape and resemblance
Tselem
Means likeness in shape or bodily resemblance
Demooth