Christian moral principles

Question 1

whats heteronomy

Answer 1

moral authority that comes from combination of church, bible and reason
-typically catholic view

Question 2

whats theonomy

Answer 2

moral authority that comes from god

Question 3

how do we access theonomy

Answer 3

we access through gods revelation in bible
-often involves suggesting church has less authority than the bible
-protestant view

Question 4

whats autonomy

Answer 4

individual people have to figure out whats wrong and right for themselves

Question 5

apostolic succession

Answer 5

basis on which catholic church claims to be authoratative source of christian moral principles

Question 6

what do catholic believe about the beginning of apostolic succession

Answer 6

-christ began apostolic tradition where he commanded his disciples to make disciples of all nations
-created social institution with a mission

Question 7

how did Jesus give apostles authority

Answer 7

he said whoever hears you hears me and whoever rejects you rejects me

Question 8

what did Jesus command Peter to do

Answer 8

watch over his people

Question 9

how does Jesus give church authority to create its own teachings

Answer 9

-teachings disciples would give on service of mission from what they learned from Christs words
-Catechism interprets this as Christ telling then to preach what they had learned from Jesus

Question 10

apostolic succession

Answer 10

apostles left bishops as successors to their own positions of teaching authority

Question 11

church tradition

Answer 11

traditions of how Christian life in communities works, in worship and moral life as reflection of church tradition handed down over time

Question 12

sacred tradition

Answer 12

-idea that revelation of Jesus Christ communicated in 2 ways
-in addition to scripture, through apostolic and authority of Church councils and Pope

Question 13

sacred tradition and Church teachings

Answer 13

Church transmits its own moral teachings through tradition
-sacred tradition created by apostles and their successors

Question 14

what links sacred tradition and sacred

Answer 14

-same source god
-scripture word of god in writing by power of Holy spirit
-tradition transmits word of that that Christ and Holy spirit have entrusted to apostles which transmits to their successors so they can preach it

Question 15

Magisterium on apostolic succession

Answer 15

-both scripture and Church viewed with same sentiment and devotion
-claim apostolic succession means it alone can interpret word of god and its servant of word of god
-teach only what has been handed on to it

Question 16

second vatican councils document Dei verbum on sacred scripture

Answer 16

-sacred scripture if word of god as it was written under inspiration of divine spirit and takes word of god entrusted by Christ and Holy spirit to apostles
-successors can preserve and explain it

Question 17

Dei verbum on the bible

Answer 17

-bible written by humans but inspired by God via Holy spirit and without error and contains truth which god wanted put into sacred writings

Question 18

catholic church corrupt sale of indulgences against having right to make own teachings

Answer 18

-protestants suggest church is corrupt dont act with HS
-sale of indulgences where church accepts money in return for forgiveness

Question 19

Luther criticism of sale of indulgences

Answer 19

-fabricated by goblins
-what is this new piety of god and the pope that for money they allow a man who is impious to buy out purgatory the pious soul of a friend of god
-invention of purgatory for sales
-church abuses power and makes false doctrines for money

Question 20

catholics response to Luther

Answer 20

-church would sin because made up of humans
-Christ knew this yet wanted them to be source of moral authority
-cant use human flaws as evidence Jesus didnt want humans to have this role

Question 21

ethical principles CC follows

Answer 21

natural theology
-natural law ethics
-views that humans can use god given reason to figure our ethical precepts

Question 22

why to Luther Calvin and Barth reject natural theology

Answer 22

claim human reason was corrupted by the fall and not able to be a source for Christian moral principles

Question 23

aquinas believe of human reason

Answer 23

human reason could never know or understand god
-proponent of natural theology through reason which could support faith in god

Question 24

what can human reason gain knowledge of

Answer 24

-gods existence through design and Cos arguments
-gods natural moral law through ability of reason to know synderesis and PP
-gods nature by analogy, analogy of attribution and proportion

Question 25

why does aquinas accept design and Cos argument but reject ontological

Answer 25

-reason could never provide absolute proof of god, makes revelation and faith useless
-design and cos only inductive evidence for god and support faith in god

Question 26

karl barth argument against aquinas natural law

Answer 26

overreliance on reason
-it humans able to know gods morality through own efforts- revelation useless
-finite has no capacity for infinite
-whatever human discover through reason not divine so like idolatry
-only faith in gods revelation in bible valid

Question 27

Tillich defence of Aquinas

Answer 27

-to deny our conscience can discover is claiming gap between potentuality and actuality
-having awareness of gap is to have conscience of fallen state
-contradictory to deny natural law
-going back in direction of right

Question 28

sola scriptura

Answer 28

form of theonomy
-bible alone source of christian moral principles not church

Question 29

sola scriptura and Luther

Answer 29

-return to bible method for placing god at centre of religion and ethics again

Question 30

priesthood of all believers doctrine by Luther

Answer 30

all people have status of priest
-aim to counteract catholic view that priests have special spiritual status acting as mediator between people and god

Question 31

1 Timothy 2:5

Answer 31

Jesus only mediator between God and humanity

Question 32

John 14: 26-27 for Bible authority

Answer 32

HS whom father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you

Question 33

what does bible say about divine inspiration of written bible

Answer 33

bible says Ru- ah - gods breath breathed into authors of bible directly inspiring them

Question 34

sola scriptura is not in the bible argument

Answer 34

quotes suggest bible should be source of christian moral principles but dont claim its only source nor speak against other sources
-self contradictory to believe all religious knowledge should come from sola scriptura when itself cannot be derived from scripture