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DCT - Quotes Flashcards

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Knowledge of God - Aquinas

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“Conscience and morality are god-given and naturally occuring.”

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Knowledge of God - C.S Lewis

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“Conscience reveals to us a moral law whose source cannot be found in the natural world, thus pointing to a supernatural law-giver.”

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Knowledge of God - Kiergkegaard

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“Leap of Faith”

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Knowledge of God - James (Bible)

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“Faith without action is dead.”

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Knowledge of God - Barth

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“There are no points of contact with God.”

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Knowledge of God - Brunner

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“There are points of contact, in creation and conscience.”

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Knowledge of God - Cardinal Newman

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“Conscience is god-given, if we follow conscience - we follow god’s laws.”

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Knowledge of God - Jesus

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“He who believes in me will have eternal life.”

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Knowledge of God - Boyle

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“The Bible and science are complementary, and enhance each other.”

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Knowledge of God - Romans

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“Ever since the beginning of creation, God’s eternal power and divine nature has been understood.”

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Knowledge of God - Rahner

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“Existential openness to the Divine.”

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Knowledge of God - Calvin

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“Christ is the medium and the mediator of the divine.”

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Knowledge of God - Ayer

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“You cannot make statements on the metaphysical, it is unverifiable.”

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Knowledge of God - Isiah

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“For my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

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Person of Jesus - Zeffirelli

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“Christians struggle to accept Jesus as human, but can accept him as God.”

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Person of Jesus - C.S Lewis

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“A mere man who said what Jesus said would be insane or the devil himself.”

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Person of Jesus - Rahner

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“Jesus has many layers, but a core essence of the divine.”

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Person of Jesus - Sanders

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“The claims about Jesus as the Son of God cannot be sustained from history alone.”

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Person of Jesus - Hick

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“Jesus is just an exemplary model on how to live life, but his awareness of God was also seen in the prophets.”

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Person of Jesus - Hume

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“Extraordinary events require extraordinary evidence.”

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Person of Jesus - Bultmann

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“We need to demythologise miracles, allowing us to see spiritual truths behind them.”

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Person of Jesus - Geach

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“The only meaningful way to talk about life after death is in the resurrection.”

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Person of Jesus - O’Collins

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“If Jesus hadn’t been resurrected, then faith and preaching is meaningless.”

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Person of Jesus - Hitchems

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“Jesus wasnt just a moral teacher.”

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Person of Jesus - C.S Lewis

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“Let us not come up with an patronizing nonsense about his being a great teacher.”

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Person of Jesus - Hick

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“Jesus was another gift to the world.”

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Person of Jesus - Dawkings

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“If nothing else, he was a great moral teacher.”

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Person of Jesus - Jesus

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“Do not think I have come to abolish the laws of the prophets, but to fulfil them.”

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Person of Jesus - James

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“Faith without action is dead.”

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Christian Moral Action - Bonhoeffer (7)

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“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
“God’s will is known only in the moment of action.”
“We are not permitted to neglect this daily encounter with the scripture.”
“We should be the salt and light of the world.”
“Civil disobedience is only justified when in union with God’s will.”
“For the Christian there is nowhere to retreat from the world, neither externally nor into the inner life.”
“Costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives man the only true life.”

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Christian Moral Action - Jesus

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“Take up your cross and follow me.”

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Christian Moral Action - Hans Kung

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“Global Ethic” required for balance.

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Christian Moral Action - Martin Niemoller

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“And then they came” poem

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Christian Moral Action - Tillich

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“Each situation has its own voice of love calling out to us what to do.”

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Christian Moral Action - N.T Wright

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“Better world as it brings God’s Kingdom to earth.”

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Christian Moral Action - John 9:1-41

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“God does not listen to sin. He listens to the Godly who does his will.”

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Knowledge of God - Tennant

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“There is no evolutionary benefit to being able to appreciate beauty, so this must have come from God.”

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Knowledge of God - Aquinas

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“Natural theology is important in demonstrating that Christian belief is reasonable.”

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Person of Jesus - Aslan

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“Jesus was executed via crucifixtion, which was reserved soley for civil disobedience.”

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Christian Moral Action - Fletcher

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“Bonhoeffer is correct in the sense that telling the truth depends on situation and place.”

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Christian Moral Action - Paul

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Contradicts Bonhoeffer by instructing not to rebel against authority.

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Christian Moral Action - Jesus

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Jesus’ passion pushes beyond suffering to salvation. Bonhoeffers theology is closer to the cross than resurrection.

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Christian Moral Action - Prophets

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Frequently challenged authorities on behalf of God, who were failing their responsibilities.

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Christian Moral Action - Bonhoeffer (again)

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“Submission to the law of Christ which is the law above.”

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Christian Moral Action - Eric Metaxas

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“Being a Christian is less about continuously avoiding sin and actively doing God’s Will.”

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Christian Moral Action / Knowledge of God - Augustine

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“If you thought you could fully understand God, it would not be God you understood.”

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