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for many Christians what things are all a part of moral decision making

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  • how church tradition makes sense of the Bible and how they make sense of both
  • the Bible takes its authority from the Church, whose authority determined its size, shape and content
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what approach do Protestants take

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  • scripture, church tradition and reason all important in interpreting moral messages of Jesus in today’s world
  • ## reason needed to make sense of scripture and tradition
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what approach do the Catholics take

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  • Sacred Tradition is a separate stream of moral guidance - the oral tradition that Jesus passed to his followers by word of mouth and by living with them
  • passed down through generations under authority of apostles and pope
  • reason also offers direct access to God’s moral teachings
  • there is one source and one revelation, the two streams and the two streams cannot be in conflict with one another but must be mutually interpreting and connecting
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what order of priority do Catholics and Protestants take

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Catholics put tradition first then the Bible followed by the magisterium and then reason

Protestants put Bible first then some emphasises tradition and then reason

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give a brief overview of those that value love

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  • some Christians se morality centred on agape
  • if love is an ultimate law that informs moral decisions might lead to more flexible approach to morals as with situation ethics
  • but it might inspire a fervent wish for a more and just loving world that does not abandon moral rules
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what is propositional knowledge

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knowing or accepting that something is so - such as when your birthday is or the French word for please

has a truth value - can be true or false or somewhere in between
conveyed through language where statements and claims are made

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what is propositional faith and revelation

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  • acceptance of truths revealed by God as propositions to be accepted
  • God speaks to people in words, passing information to his listeners
  • such truths might be the words of scripture, Creeds, Church doctrines, Confessions or Reformers
  • reveal how God will save them from sin, information about Jesus and moral standards demanded by God and life after death
  • not accessible through reason or experience of the world
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what is non propositional knowledge

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  • knowing how to do something and gain skills through the procedures of experience
  • procedural knowledge
  • knowing how to ride a bike
  • knowledge increases the more you practice them
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what is non propositional faith and revelation

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  • belief or faith in God through personal encounter, gaining knowledge of God through experience of a sense of God’s presence and guidance e.g.
  • some may experience God through nature or by meeting risen Christ in human experience
  • God reveals himself and the person has faith in that self revelation
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how do propositional and non propositional knowledge work together

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  • in everyday life
  • we combine factual knowledge with experience to achieve what we need to do
  • the two different ways of explaining how God reveals truths are not incompatible or mutually exclusive
  • most Christians would say they learn about God through the words of the Bible and see him in nature and their relationships with others
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what is necessary in reading the Bible

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some knowledge of linguistics and history to make sense of the words used and how they may accurately be interpreted to capture their sense

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what is a propositional approach to the Bible

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  • accepts as truth the words of the Bible are messages from God
  • God directly revealed to the reader through words on the page
  • leads some Christians to view the Commandments and Beatitudes as fixed moral principles to be transmitted, the life and work of Jesus as actual events and parables as having fixed meanings
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what is a non propositional approach to the Bible

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  • when God revealed himself in Jesus he didn’t write a book or set of propositions but lived a human life and died a human death
  • more personal and experiential approach to the Bible
  • Many Christians understand the story of Jesus life, death, resurrection as speaking to their life and experiences in life
  • the Bible is a gateway into encountering the living God
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how might one think of the difference between propositional and non propositional approaches to the Bible

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getting to know someone through their CV (prop) `and getting to know someone by having dinner with them (non -prop)

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what is sola scriptura

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  • Bible directly reveals God’s will
  • supreme authority in all matters of doctrine/practice
  • God’s biblical ethical commands should be followed - such as the commandments - Exodus 20:1-17
  • scripture is self-authenticating - any rational reader can see the meaning which presents itself
  • it is its own interpreter - scripture interprets scripture - the meaning is overt and clear
  • bible offers propositional revelation and that revelation includes clear teachings on morality
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why do some Christians say the bible is literal an quote to support

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  • almost as if it was dictated by God to the writers word by word
  • writers are not authors but scribes
  • bible considered to have authority for Christians because it was inspired by God
  • “no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’ own interpretation. Prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” - 2 Peter 1:20-21

“Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me I have put my words in your mouth” - Jeremiah 1:9

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what Christian believe the authority and inspiration of scripture is due to its direct revelation of God through his command of scribes

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evangelical Protestants

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what are advantages of belief that the Bible is inspired directly without mistake from God

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  • helpful for moral matters as it makes the Bible an infallible source of information
  • believers know they can trust/rely on what it says
  • gives the right answer whenever it provides ethical and life guidance
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what is the inerrancy of scripture

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the Bible has no errors or mistakes

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how do bible believing Christians see other sources of morality guidance

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as suspicious as they could be the product of evil

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what is Richard Mouw’s case for the role of biblical imperatives in a quote

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“if the command to love is the only biblical command which has normative relevance to moral decision making, then much of the substance of Christian ethics can be established without reference to the scripture”

“But if the Bible does offer other commands and considerations which bear on our decision making, then the task will be one of finding correlations between biblical revelation and moral issues at many different points”

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what does Mouv reject

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those who take a situational approach or those who focus on love exclusively

  • just because there is one biblical commandment, a law of love, does not rule the possibility of other biblical commandments on other issues which also matter
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what is Mouv careful to note

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  • not all biblical commandments are about morality today - God told Abraham to leave his home to find the promise land but this was a specific command for him at the time and not one Christians should follow today
  • it would be wrong to see the Bible as a whole long list of commands
  • there is not much in the Bible that is not a command - in the histories and poems for example
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what does Mouv conclude

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“the writer of Ecclesiastes suggests our whole duty consists in obeying God’s commandments he is telling us that we must conform to whatever God requires of us… whether that guidance is transmitted through parables, accounts of divine dealings with nations and individuals or sentences which embody commands”

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how is the approach to life shaped for a Christian who uses sola scriptura

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  • framed by the commandments and teachings like the Sermon on the Mount
  • Decisions about taking life informed by the commandment not to kill and the teachings of Jesus on life e.g.
  • Issues which are not directly mentioned in the Bible such as genetic or business ethics may be approached with references to the virtues implied by the teaching of Jesus
  • Truthfulness, an important quality from Sermon on Mount may be used to inform business ethics
  • different ways to draw on the Bible, different kinds of scripture
  • history or saga though may not be as easy to draw as the direct teachings of Jesus although there might be parallels between the history recorded in the Bible and present issues such as conflicts or questions of good government.
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what is the criticism of sola scriptura about reading the Bible ‘straight’

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  • critics say impossible to read straight without making any interpretation of it
  • we bound to read subjectively in relation to our own experiences and with our own interpretations because we are all human individuals with our own lives and thoughts and contexts
  • we cannot separate ourselves from that
  • to read the Bible and try and understand it literally is a subjective choice as much as any other
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why are there difficulties in sola scriptura with reference to taking a literal view of the Bible been dictated by God

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  • If God dictated every word why does the Bible have different writing styles
  • John’s Gospel is more mystical and theological suggesting different influence, Matthew’s gives allusions to Jewish culture suggesting he expected readers to be Jewish and that he was, but Luke pauses to explain aspects of Judaism as if the reader is unfamiliar with them
  • Mark’s Greek not good like other gospel writers
  • difficult to accept Bible dictated directly by God
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what is the problem with sola scriptura with reference to conflicts in the Bible

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  • Jesus’ teachings in Mathew 5 from Sermon on Mount contradict with earlier teachings in OT
  • if God wrote every word why would he not be consistent
  • rules in OT that Christians do not follow such as in Book of Leviticus that don’t seem to be refer to morality or be applicable to moral issues
  • e.g. Leviticus 19:27 prohibits cutting hair in a certain way that many Christians do they don’t feel constrained by the teaching
  • if the whole Bible is believed to be literally true then explanations are needed to deal with internal contradictions and why many rules in OT are ignored
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what criticism of sola scriptura is given by Savitri Hensman

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  • an activist
  • she criticises the Bible needing no interpretation
  • She speaks of a Christian who read the ‘plain’ meaning of the Bible to inspire him to commit what most people would see as atrocities
  • he sees them as perfectly acceptable and that he is a soldier of Christ
  • demonstrates even when we thinking we read the Bible straight and its plain meaning we are still applying our own interpretations because most other devout Christians would not see this meaning as plain if it allows a horror to be committed
  • illustrates the wariness with which we must approach a literal or bible alone reading of scripture as there is much in the Bible which arguably prevents an incorrect view of a vengeful and merciless god
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discuss in detail the Catholic approach to Christian ethics

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  • believe the Bible grew out of the church
  • the church formed the canon of scripture (bible)
  • this makes Church tradition a living expression of the Good News and a living source of access to God’s revelation
  • the Bible is the principal source of authority (prima scritpura) but is understood through and with the Church traditions and human reason
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what do William Spohn and Richard Hays explain

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that whenever a person reads the Bible they do so influenced by prior traditions and ways of thinking and so reject those who proclaim Bible as sola scriptura and sole source of moral inspiration

  • you cannot examine scripture without reference to the Church communities and traditions in which it functions
  • the focus should not be on what individual scholars make of a text when trying to decide what to do
  • it is wrong to start with the question how should I use this text but rather how do we as Christians, part of a living community and tradition interpret this text
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what did Hays say

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“no matter how seriously the church take the authority of the Bible, sola scriptura is both conceptually and practically untenable because the interpretation of Scripture can never occur in a vaccum”

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what did Spohn say

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“they are concerned that drawing inferences from a biblical text for life today usually wrenches the text from its unique historical context and ignores the contradictory voices within scripture”

  • doesn’t reject the bible but rejects the idea that you can read it straight without putting it into context so that it can be interpreted properly
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what does Allen Verhey say

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Biblical ethics does not provide an autonomous and timeless and coherent set of rules it provides an account of the work and will and way of one God and evokes the creative and faithful response of those who would be God’s people

Biblical ethics is unyieldingly diverse. the bible contains many books and more tradition each addressed once to a particular community in a specific cultural and social context facing concrete questions of moral conduct and character

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what is the Christian Church’s concept of Synod

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  • council or assembly convened to discuss and agree together on issues of teaching, doctrine or administration
  • sort of governing body of a church
  • key in all the types of Synod notions is a sense of decision making and discernment together
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what is the Anglican conception of Church tradition

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  • refers to both early and current practices and beliefs of the first Christians and the current Church
  • prima scriptura - Bible first but not only source
  • tradition is an interpretation of scripture that should be listened to and practiced
  • some non conformist protestant Churches such as Methodist Church refer to tradition as the connection between current and first Christian community
  • key idea here is that these influences are combined when decisions are made about moral questions
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how does Hays define Church Tradition

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  • as time honoured practices of worship, service and critical rejection
  • the life of prayer and worship, the organisation of Church, the common preaching and teachings of that Church all make up tradition
  • tradition should not be thought of as a fixed thing but a healthy debate as the living church has sought throughout ages to make sense of the times and situations it experiences
  • tradition not sperate from scripture
  • the link can be understood in different ways
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how can the link between the Bible and Church Tradition be understood

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  • Church tradition is how the community of the Church worships and prays using scripture
  • the Bible starts tradition because it records the life of the first Christians in the NT letters and acts of the apostles
  • the bible gives an account of how early Christians began to discuss what the teachings and works of Jesus meant to them in their lives
  • the bible has already been interpreted by tradition - the church chose what texts where to be part of the Bible and some texts were excluded because they were judged unreliable
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why do some argue that the interpretation of the works and life of Jesus by the first Christians was affected

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  • the gospels were written at a time when the early church had formed so some argue that it was affected by the difficult times they were living through
  • e.g. some NT scholars think references to the destruction of the temple and the miracle of calming the storm reflect the tumultuous experience of uncertainty and danger that the early Church experiences which they read into the words and actions of Jesus
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why in the Catholic tradition does Church tradition precede the Bible

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  • the canon of sacred scripture, its content and its authority was determined by the Church
  • process from the first disciples and Hebrew scriptures, early writings of the followers of Jesus and early Church councils
  • It was the authority of the Church that decided what the Bible was and therefore tradition precedes the Bible
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what is the Catholic conception of Sacred Tradition and how is this different from the Anglian Church

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  • Sacred tradition is an equal means of coming to know the revelation of Jesus alongside the Bible because it is the oral tradition handed down by Jesus to his disciples then through apostolic succession
  • thus sacred tradition has equal authority to the Bible because the Church teaches it comes from Jesus
  • Tradition is how the Holy Spirit makes the risen Lord present
  • whereas again Anglican sees them as equally important but Bible first
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vatican quote about tradition, scripture and reason all been needed together

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Scared tradition, Sacred scripture and the teaching authority of the Church in accord with god’s most wise design are so linked and joined together that one cannot stand without the others and that all together and each in its own way contribute effectively to the salvation of souls.

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how is the process of handing down referred to in the NT

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so then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter
2 Tessalonians 2:15

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how is the Catholic Sacred Tradition summarised in the Catechism of the Catholic Church

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  • summarises many of the decrees and declarations of the Church councils on various moral issues such as abortion and euthanasia, nuclear weapons and worker’s rights etc framed around biblical reference such as the commandments
  • the catechism is a summary of how a Church integrates tradition and scripture together through a process of reasoning
  • the Catholic Church draws on Natural Law for that reason
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what is the impact of the Catholic Church having a strong sense of the magisterium (teaching authority of the Church)

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  • this authority allows clear decisions on moral teaching across a range of areas
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why is the Catholic’s use of the Catechism of the Catholic Church effective

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it resolves to provide an unambiguous answer to many moral problems Christians face today also suggesting a way of thinking about difficult moral dilemmas.
it still recognises the importance of individual conscience in moral decision making is not simply obedience to authority but should include conscientious action and prayer

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what does the Sacred Tradition approach reflect

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  • the approach reflects importance of Sacred Tradition as a binding authority and source of guidance in moral life
  • Sacred Tradition of the Church connects the Christian community today with that of the early Church and with the authority of the first Apostles and Jesus
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what do some denominations of the Church think about scripture and its authority

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  • some Church denominations do not express binding official teachings that must be followed but provide teachings as guidance for the individual to reflect on and use to make an informed choice
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what is the order of the Anglican and Catholic church

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Anglican - scripture, tradition, reason

Catholic - tradition, scripture, magisterium and reason

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discuss the importance and role of reason in moral decision making

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  • any decision making requires it
  • needed to make sense of experience/respond to it
  • needed to process/reflect on the Bible/tradition/apply guidance obtained from those sources to the problem
  • enlightenment philosophers thought reason was objective or neutral but in the later 20th century many rejected this idea
  • rather than being objective, rules and principle used for reasoning are just as influenced by our contemporary culture as anything else
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what did MacIntyre think about reason

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“rationality itself whether theoretical or practical is a concept with a history… since there are a diversity of traditions… it will turn out rationalities rather than rationality”

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how did Hays agree with what MacIntyre said about reason

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“reason…is always culturally influenced”

“when we ask about the relation between scripture and reason as sources of authority we are in effect seeking the best ways to coordinate the cultural logic of the NT writings with the cultural logic of our own historical setting”

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what do Christians need to negotiate between

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the world of the NT and their particular world in the present to make moral decisions

  • it might be that in this negotiation or interpretation some factors of the difference between the two worlds become important or prioritised
  • e.g. modern views about role of men and women different from ideas about women made by St Paul
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what can reason produce

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different interpretations of the Bible and result in differing Church traditions and different responses to ethical decision making because it is not actually objective and just like our reading of the Bible takes into account our historical and cultural experiences

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give an example of how reason can produce different interpretations of the bible

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WAR

  • Catholic Church’s idea of a ‘just’ war comes through a process of reason
  • yet non-conformist denominations like the Quakers take up pacifism. they were persecuted in the past for not fighting in the army, the experience further influenced their Church tradition
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how, when confronted with a moral question, do Christians draw on the Bible, Church Tradition and reason

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  • might turn to the teachings or rules of their Church on that issue using catechism or other scripture
  • many churches provide information about their own teachings on issues
  • some stress the importance in following the rules of the Church and these deliberations
  • other churches encourage members to reach their own conclusions perhaps through prayer or reason
  • may be a question of how best to interpret the Bible and whether the language and time the Bible was written in can help us make sense of things now
  • sometimes a Church will call a council
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what are the differences between Catholic and Protestant views of how Bible, Church and reason work in moral questions

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  • for Catholics, relying on Sacred Tradition is matter of trust in Church’s authority - Church teachings on moral questions are to be trusted as much as if they were written in the Bible and should be obeyed - but not unthinkingly, conscience plays a part
  • protestants which recognise tradition, it is a way of interpreting Bible, may change with time as practice and meaning seen in light of present - but moral authority overall always rests with the Bible
  • for Catholics reason another source of direct access to revelation through the moral laws implicit in the created world - basis for natural law - bible, sacred tradition and reason each access the one source of revelation in different ways
  • protestants - reason process of making sense of Bible/church tradition - operates to make sense of how it has been interpreted through practices of early Church to present
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why are protestants concerned about the catholic sacred tradition

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  • tradition as equal to the Bible is problematic
  • concern comes from reformation when some became critical of Church practices which reformers thought were in conflict with the Bible
  • some Christian communities today are sceptical about tradition
  • non conformist protestant churches see the traditions of Catholicism and Anglicanism as something apart from the rule of God
  • perhaps the process of following traditions is a distraction from the moral commands found in the Bible
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Jesus’ attitude to tradition

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  • traditions sometimes criticised by Jesus
  • often traditions of Jewish elder which Jesus contrasted with commands of God
  • e.g. Jesus condemned tradition/teaching of the Pharisees as their traditions represent the rules of men rather than the commandment of God
  • there are (+) referenced to tradition in terms of traditions handed over by Paul for others to follow which he has received from the Lord
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concerns about the exclusion of women’s perspectives

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  • feminist Ruether is critical of the power of Church tradition and its starting point, scripture
  • argues both tradition and bible shaped almost exclusively by male experiences of life which means the universality and authority of tradition can be questioned because it excludes women’s experiences
  • current tradition and interpretation of the Bible is one sided partial and incomplete
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concerns about reason being set against faith

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  • reason sometimes viewed suspiciously by Christians as an attempt to create some distance from the sources of Bible/tradition
  • can be liked to the rise of reason in the Enlightenment as science developed systems of thought separate from any biblical basis
  • Christians who rely on the Bible alone are sceptical of such sources
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why for many Christians is NT principle of agape an essential guidance

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  • love is at the root of all Jesus’ teachings and actions
  • NT littered with prominent quotes about love
  • these emphasise its challenge, unconditional, self-sacrificial nature and its moral supremacy
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give some quotes about love

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Love the lord your god with all your heart , soul, mind and strength. love your neighbour as you love yourself there is no commandment greater than these - mark 12:28-31

love your enemies then your reward will be great - Luke 6;35

love never fails - Corinthians 1

whoever does not know love does not know God because God is love - 1 John 4:8

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what does Rudolf Bultman believe

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  • for human reason to decide how to apply love rather than follow list of rules
  • challenge of Christian moral behaviour is to move beyond laws and judgements to forgiveness based on love
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what does Reinhold Niebuhr believe

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  • orthodox christianity tended to become one of two contrasting types of religion, one that denies the relevance of love in ordinary moral matters, and another which tries to reduce moral behaviour to conformity of tradition and the common sense of generations
  • prophetic tradition in Christianity insists on the relevance of the ideal of love to the moral experience of mankind on every conceivable level - ultimate law of life is love - the basis of all moral standards
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what three ethical norms did Tillich suggest

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  • love
  • wisdom
  • justice

most important is love which he saw as being guided by wisdom and having justice as its backbone

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what is Tillich critical of

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the kind of Christian moral decision making which follows fixed rules

  • calls it moral Puritanism
  • which promotes principles which identify the Christian message with prohibition of things
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what type of moral principle is agape

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  • a person centred moral principle binding us to the other person and their particular situation
  • love needs to act in the immediate, concrete moral situation facing the person not a hypothetical situation
  • Tillich sees each particular situation as having its own voice which cries out to us and which we can hear if we are driven by love
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what problem did Tillich identify for people trying to respond to the voice they can hear by been driven by love

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“there is something between love and the situation and these are the laws of religions, nations and society. they are embodied in the traditional law which we read and learn. how can we judge them”

  • Tillich sees traditional laws as the wisdom of the past, including the commands of the Bible
  • But he does not think they were meant to operate as abstract technical forces telling us what to do in every situation
  • would be against situation centred love principle
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what does Tillich believe

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  • nobody should feel compelled religiously and morally to follow laws unconditionally
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what criticism does Tillich recognise with regards to commandments

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  • that it can be difficult to know when/how to bend/break a commandment for love but he sees that difficulty as being a part of moral life
  • a moral action is an action in which we actualize ourselves as person within person to person encounters
  • love is guided by the wisdom of the past
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what does Tillich give ultimate authority to

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the individual Christian’s own deliberation of what to do according to the particular situation they face not just what previous rules suggest

Tillich is not saying the rules have no bearing at all but that they must always be interpreted through love in accordance with the particular people involved and the moral dilemma been faced.

balanced loving principles with the wisdom of other moral rules

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what approach does Pope Francis take

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  • not changed Catholic moral teaching, but altered approach taken when applying moral teaching to different situations
  • in the Joy of Love writes about different crisis’ faced in the Bible
  • on the moral difficulties families face he says its unhelpful to impose rules by sheer authority
  • he has advocated a more compassionate approach questioning attempts to control people using rules
  • thinks the Bible contains both wisdom about rules of family life and is also realistic in stories of difficulty
  • advocates moral guidance grounded in love recognising the rules of the Christian tradition but also the challenged of modern life/relationships
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how does Pope Francis criticise the Church

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  • critiques the way the Church has often simply demanded obedience to doctrine and has failed to encourage openness to grace and that this traditional rule based approach has not always provided sufficient support to families facing real life issues
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pope Francis quote about love

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love inspires a sincere esteem for every human being and the recognition of his or her own right to happiness

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