Dialogue Quotes Flashcards
Obeying authority
- “whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgement”
- “He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings”
Secularism (name)
- Max Weber: “the disenchantment of the world”
Humanism (name)
- Immanuel Kant: “Have courage to use your own reason!”
Faith schools (names)
- National Secular Society: “In a religiously plural democracy it is inappropriate for any belief system to be privileged in state schools”
- Department for Education: “Collective worship in schools should aim to provide the opportunity for pupils to worship God (…) and to explore their own beliefs”
- British Humanist Association: “the law is incoherent: a school can do many things collectively but, lacking a shared religious faith, it cannot worship collectively.”
Marriage (names)
Catholic Church Canon:
- “The matrimonial covenant (…) has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament”
- “The essential properties of marriage are unity and indissolubility”
Church of England Canon:
- “according to our Lord’s teaching, marriage is in its nature a union permanent and lifelong”
Forced marriage (names)
- C of E: “non-consensual marriage should be dealt with on the same basis as non-consensual sexual relations, as an issue of fundamental human rights”
- RCC: “A marriage is brought into being by the lawfully manifested consents of persons who are legally capable.”
Equality
- “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”
Women
- “Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission”
- “[the man] is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of man”
- Pope John Paul II: “the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women”
Euthanasia (name)
- David Hume: “I thank Providence (…) for the power which I am endowed of escaping the ill that threatens me.”
Abortion
- “Do not murder”
- “you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.”
- RCC: “abortion and infanticide are the most abominable of crimes”
Genetic manipulation (names)
- RCC: “It is gravely immoral to sacrifice a human life for therapeutic ends”
- C of E: “Therapeutic cloning may be thought of as ethical, as it does not result in another human being.”
Inter-faith exclusivism
- “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’”
- “Whoever believes and it is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
Intra-faith exclusivism (name)
RCC:
- “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no-one at all can be saved”
- “The Church now solemnly acknowledges that the Holy Ghost is truly active in churches and communities separated from itself”
Inclusivism (name)
- Karl Rahner: “A non-Christian religion can be recognised as lawful (although only in different degrees)”
Pluralism (name)
John Hick:
- “Christians ought to be better human beings than those who lack these inestimable spiritual benefits”
- “Can we then accept (…) that only a small minority can in fact receive salvation?”
Inclusivism and pluralism
- “There are many rooms in my Father’s house. I would not tell you this if it were not true.”
Ecumenism
- “You are joined together with peace through the Spirit. Do all you can to continue as you are”
- “There is one Lord, one faith and one baptism. (…) He works through all of us and in all of us.”
- WCC: “The aim of the World Council of Churches is to pursue the goal of visible unity in the Church.”
Inter-faith dialogue (names)
- Hans Küng: “There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.”
- Pope Francis: “Interreligious dialogue is a necessary condition for peace in the world.”
Proselytisation
- “Go and make followers of all people in the world. (…) Teach them to obey everything that I have told you to do.”
Compassion
- “You shall love your neighbour as yourself”
Support for those in need
- “Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.”
- “You received without paying; give without pay.”
Changing attitudes to marriage
- “What God has joined together, man must never separate.”
Promoting peace
- “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God”
Protection of the environment (name)
- WCC: “The dignity of nature needs to be bound up with our responsibility for the preservation of life.”
