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Christian moral principle Flashcards

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What does bible/ scripture mean

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The colelction/ canon of books in the bible which contain the revelation of God

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What is meant by Christian tradition

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The tradition of how Christian life in community works, in worship, practical moral life and prayer, and the teaching and reflection of the church handed down across time

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What is a sacred tradition

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The idea that the revelation of Jesus Christ is communicated in two ways. In addition to scripture, it is communicated through the apostolic and authoritative teaching of the church councils and the pope

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What is Agape Love

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The unconditional love, the only ethical norm in situationism

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what are the things that deontological approach towards what/ who to trust for moral actions

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Bible
Church traditions
sacred traditions
Reason

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What is the situational approach on who/ what we trust for moral actions

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Love

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What is meant by sola scriptura

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That the bible is the only source of moral guidance

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What is morality to some Christians

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about the obedience of God literal word

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What is the protestant church approach to moral guidance

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The bible, church and reason all have a role to play

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What is the Catholic church idea of moral guidance

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Sacred tradition
scripture

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What is Propisitional knowledge

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Knowing or accepting something is so. Eg people know when their birthday is. This has true value and so conveyed through language in which claims are made.

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Propositional faith and revelation means what

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The acceptance of truth revealed by God that cannot be accessed through reason or experience. Instead through scripture, the Creeds or Church doctrines. This includes information on how to be saved from sin, the life of Jesus and life after death

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What is Non-Positional knowledge

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Knowing how to do something or gaining skills through experience (like riding a bike)

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Non-Propositional faith and revelation means what

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That faith of a personal encounter or gaining knowledge of God through experience. God reveals himself (through nature, or by meeting the risen Christ in human experience) and the person has faith in that self revelation

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The bible is a gateway into encountering the living God is a point for proportional or non proportional

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Non-Proportional

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Do Proportional or non proportional believe the commandments are fixed moral principle

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Proportional

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Propotional or non proportional ideas mirror getting to know someone from their CV

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Proportional

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Does proportional or non proportional believe its like getting to know someone by going to dinner with them

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Non proportional

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Many Christians understand the story of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection as speaking to their whole life and their experiences in life: hope, love, denial. Being handed over, being abandoned, fear or death
Proportional or non proportional

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Non Proportional

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Does Proportional or non proportional accepts the truth the words of the bible are messages from God

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Proportional

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for some Christian what is the only source of authority for Christian ethics

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The bible

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What is meant by scripture being self authenticating

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meaning of text is obvious and clear and any rational reader can clearly see the meaning. No need for further interpretation is requited

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“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophets own interpretation on things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, by prophets, through human, spoke from god”
What is the key part of this quote and what does it mean

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“Prophets, through human, spoke from God”
That the bible is Gods word and cant be seen as false

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“The the lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, _______”

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“i have put my words in your mouth”

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What does the writers of the bible also be known as

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Scribes due to it having literal word of God

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evangelical protestant churches believe about the bible if its gods direct words

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That the bible is inspired directly and without mistake (Infallible or inerrant(without error))

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How can the writing style be a crit of “sola scriptura”

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That if God really did direct the bible why does it contain such different writing styles

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What was Richard Mouw belief on sola scriptura

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Rejects a situationalist approach- just because there is one biblical commandment - a law of low - doesn’t rule our other biblical commandments

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What is the conflicts with Jesus and the old testament

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There are conflicts in the bible. Compared Jesus’ sermon on the mount to old testament scripture. If god write every word, wouldn’t it be consistent

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What did Richard Mouw say and how could in be criticised

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“…the writer of Ecclesiastes suggests our whole duty consists in obeying God’s commandments…we must conform to whatever God requires of us, to all that the creator instructs us to do”
It gets criticised because some topics arent covered explicitly and so such interpretation is required

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What does Prima scriptua mean

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That the bible is a principle source of authority but is to understood through Christians traditions and human reason

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What did Hays mean when he said “interpretation of scripture can never occur in a vacuum”

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that the bible must be used within the context of community, experience + reason and not in isolation. We cannot help to bring or own lived experience to how it is applied in our lives

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What did Sphon say in return to Hays

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“Concerned that drawing inferences from a biblical text for life today usually wrenches the text from its unique historical context and ignores contradictory voice with scripture”

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Who is synod and what role does it play

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It means council or assembly concerned to discuss and agree together on issues of teaching, doctrine or administration. Understood in terms of the governing body of a church, a council of the bishops of the church, a diocesan council or the local church group for elders or council members

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what does Anglican tradition have to do with Prima scriptura

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That it is not the only source of understanding. when we make moral decisions Anglicans will use a combination of scripture and church traditions

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How can we see that scripture shows the importance of women

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Jesus revealed himself to Mary after the resurrection so society has became less patriarchal amended practice.

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“A shared understanding within the church community about the kind of community it is, where it has come from, what it exists for” was said by who

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Messer

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What are some of the ways that tradition and scripture can be linked

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Church tradition is how the community worship and pray using scripture

Tradition refers to the early church too and this is recorded in the Bible, especially in the Acts of the Apostles

The bible has been interpreted by tradition - church chose which texts were to be part of the bible

Gospel were written at a time when the early church had already formed and some of the works arguably represent the tumultuous and uncertain times they were facing. EG the miracles of the calming of the storm

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How can the early church be a problem

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That tradition precedes the bible as it was the authority if the early church that decided what the bible was

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How does sacred tradition have equal authority as the bible

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Sacred tradition is the revelation of Jesus communicating through the apostolic and authoritative teaching of the church councils and the pope

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What is the magisterium

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The church authority to give authentic interpretation of the word of God, vested uniquely in the pope and the bishop

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What’s the catholic church aim by adding magisterium

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That to provide an unambiguous answer to many moral issues

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Why would we need reason

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sense of experience and respond to it, process and reflect on the bible and tradition to apply the guidance obtained from those sources to the problem

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What is a more modern philosophers believe about reason

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that is objective or neutral however that idea isn’t popular with modern day philosophers

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What quote did Macintyre say about reason

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“Rationally itself, whether theoretical or practical, is a concept with a history: indeed, since there are a diversity of tradition on enquiry, with histories, there are, so it will turn out, rationalities, rather than rationality”

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What quote did hays say about reason

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“reason itself is always culturally influenced… rationality is a contingent aspect of particular symbolic worlds. Consequently, when we ask about the relation between Scripture and ‘reason’ as sources of authority, we are in effect seeking the best way to coordinate the cultural logic of the new testament writing with the cultural logic of out own historical setting”

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What negotiations are required for Christians

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they might need to negotiate or interpret some factors of the difference between the two world became important or prioritised (can be seen with men and women when they changed since st pauls comments)

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How has reason lead to different church traditions

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Reason will lead to different interpretations of the bible and differing church traditions and responses to ethical decision making. (catholic church idea of just war comes through a process of reason and is used to inform the churches position of war to can sometimes be pasified)

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What did Pacifist traditions have to do with the catholic church

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they found among non-conformist denominations (quackers) come from an interpretation of the bible. Quackers look bad for not fighting in wars and not joining the army. This then have further influence their Christian decisions

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How does the catholic church use reason

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provide another source of direct access to revelation, through moral laws implicit in the created world, basis on natural law. The catholic church viewed sacred tradition and reason each access the one source of revelation of taking sense of bible in church traditions

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What does Protestant churches use reason

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Reason operates to make sense of the bible and how it has been interpreted through the practice from the early church to the present

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What is meant by Altruism

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Putting the needs of other before oneself

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What (according to Scholars) was Jesus only command and how is reason apart of it

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Love and humans are to use their reason to apply the command, rather than following a list

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“One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him “of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “the most important one”, answered Jesus, “is this: ‘hear, O Israel: the lord our god, the lord is one. Love the lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these”

What part of this quote shows love

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“love your neighbour as yourself.’ there is no commandment greater than these”

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“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the most high, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked”
Which part of this quote from the old testament shows love

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“Love your enemies”

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“love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight In evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. love never fails .But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away”

Where is love shown

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“Love never fails”

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“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love”

Shorten the quote down

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“But the greatest of these is love”

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What quote shows the correlation between God and Love

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“God is love”

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Reinhold Niebuhr supported the Prophetic Christianity but what did they believe

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Insists on the ideal of the relevance of love to the moral experience of mankind. Ultimate law of life is love. It is the basis of all moral standards

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Opposing Prophetic Christianity is Orthodox Christianity but what did they believe

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One of two contrasting types of religion.
One denies the relevance of love on ordinary moral matters. The other reduces moral behaviour to conformity to tradition

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In Paul Tillich what are the three ethical norms and rules we should follow

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Love
Wisdom
justice

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In Paul Tillich what is love

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The most important out the three ethical norms/ rules

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In Paul Tillich what role does wisdom play

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Its what helps guide love

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In Paul Tillich what is Justice

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The backbone of love

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What did Tillich think of Agape love

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That it should include all dimensions of love and love is the continuous desire to break through the isolation which is connected to every person

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Tillich is critical of Christian moral decisions making and how they follow fixed moral rules but what does Tillich call this

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Moral Puritanism

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