Chapter 5 Creation and Human Personhood Flashcards
What Creation by God’s Word means
- author of creation is Triune
- Source of creative act if loving freedom - no necessity
- The world is created by Gods free speech
Providence
the continuing action by which God maintains in existence all that is & works to accomplish his will in the world
Naturalism
is the belief that the only time God works is in creation (miracles) & that things maintain themselves in existence & act by their own powers
Consursus
“Going together” The simultaneity of divine and human agency in specific actions and events.
Hypersupernaturalism
all things are achived by God through Ex Nihilo
Creaturely Freedom
is not absolute, but God’s is.
Common Grace
Common grace comes by providence whereas saving grace is miraculous. Mt 5:45
- Fountain of living generosity for all man
- He works all thing for our good and salvation
- Hidden and revealed will
To be Human?
We cannot know man apart from reference to God.
Anthropological Monism
In this view there is no distinction between soul & body
Us as his Image bearers
We represent God on earth as his Governors of Creation
Our image is our relationship to God, we need reason and conscience
Theology of the Body
We love as the body-soul unite
Our Office
Prophet, Priest and King
As prophet, man explains God & proclaims his excellence; as priest, he consecrates all that is created to God as a holy offering; as king, he guides & governs all things in justice & rectitude.
Imago dei
The image of God is not something in us that is semi-divine but something between us and God that constitutes a covenantal relationship.
Modified Monism
the psychosomatic (soul-body) unity of human beings.
