Chapter 11 Pluralsim And Theology Notes Flashcards
Liberalsim
An ideology which develops its laws based on the princiople that humans flourish when given maximum freedoms and minimum control by governments
Plural society
A society which tolerates many different beliefs and lifestyles
Religious pluralism
The varieties of beliefs and practices within a particular religion, as well as varieties of different religions and their beliefs and parctices
Epistemology
The study of knowledge
Soteriology
The study of salvation or liberalism according to christian teaching and the different ways in which humans achieve this
Phenomenology
Phenomenological existence refers to the experience of things as we encounter them and the structures of conciousness
Theology of religious
Primarily concerned with christianity’s theological, philosophical and practical relationship with non-christian religions
Gavin D’Costa
A roman catholic
Argues that the necessary and sufficient conditions for salvation depend on ‘controlling beliefs’
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher and atheist
‘I think all great religions of the world - Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and communism - both untrue and harmful. It is evidence as a matter of logic that, since they disagree, not more than one of them can be true’
Theological exclusivism
The view that only Christianity fully offers the means of salvation
Restrictive access exclusivism
The view that salvation is only possible by directly hearing the Gospel and accepting baptism into the church
Universal access exclusivism
The view that God will the redemption of everyone
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, ‘ i am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father accept through me’
Acts 4:12
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved
2 corinthians 5:18
All this from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself.
Middle knowledge
The knowledge which God has of all possible events in the world as performed by free agents. It is so called because natural knowledge and free knowledge
Sola Christus
The belief that God’s grace is possible only through Christ
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus
The belief that salvation is not possible outside the Church as the Chruch is the continuing mediator of Christs presence on earth
Fides ex auditu
The belief that true faith is only possible through hearing the Gospel as witnessed in the bible and preached by the church