Final Knowledge Flashcards

1
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When was the telescope discovered?

A

1609

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2
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Date of young earth creationist flood?

A

2344 BCE

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3
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When was On The Origins of Species published?

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1859

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4
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What are the four major motifs in origins?

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De Novo Creation, a lost idyllic age, tribal formation, and a great flood.

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5
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What is De Novo creation?

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Sudden and complete origin of the universe and life, often including the first man and woman.

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6
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What etiological question does De Novo creation answer?

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What is the cause/reason for the origin of the world and people?

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7
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What is the lost idyllic age?

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An account of something going wrong in the world; disruption of original harmony whose consequences continue into the present.

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8
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What etiological question does the lost idyllic age answer?

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What is the cause/reason for bad things in the world?

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9
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What is the tribal formation motif?

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Retrojection of the knowledge that humans give birth to humans, there must have been an original tribal head of all humanity

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10
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What etiological question does tribal formation answer?

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What is the cause/reason for the origin of our people?

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11
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What is the great flood motif?

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A destruction of life and survival of a few humans and some animals

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12
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What etiological question does the great flood answer?

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What was the reason for that flood?

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13
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What are the 6 stages of recycling and reinterpreting?

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  1. Conception of Mesopotamian and Egyptian motifs of origins (oral societies)
  2. Ancient historiography (literate societies)
  3. Israel appears in the ANE and inherits motifs
  4. Israel recycles reinterprets these motifs
  5. Israel becomes literate and writes down the J and P accounts
  6. J and P are combined by the redactor around 500 BCE
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14
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When did Israel first appear in the ANE?

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1200 BCE

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15
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What are Lamoureux’s three conclusions to the question of Genesis 1-11?

A

Gen 1-11 is a separate literary genre than the rest of the Bible.
The redactor made things confusing by trying to historicize Genesis.
Separate, don’t conflate.

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16
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What is the solution to sci-rel conflicts?

A

Competent hermaneutics

17
Q

What can we conclude about Galileo? (3)

A

He was a Christian, did not have a conflict model of sci-rel, and used professional hermaneutics

18
Q

Who is THE theologian?

A

St Augustine

19
Q

Who was Charles Lyell and what was his most famous book?

A

The father of modern geology. Principles of Geology was his most famous book.

20
Q

When was the basic geological column established?

A

1850

21
Q

What is the gap theory?

A

Geological time is put in a gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:3.

22
Q

What is the day age theory?

A

Days of Gen 1 are geological periods

23
Q

What is monogenism?

A

The belief that humanity arose from one individual

24
Q

What is polygenism?

A

The belief that humanity arose from a group of individuals

25
Q

Who formulated the doctrine of original sin?

A

St Augustine

26
Q

What are the two tenets of the doctrine of original sin?

A
  1. The first sin committed by man was Adam’s first sin.

2. The first sin transferred to all humans.

27
Q

What is the sin-death problem?

A

There can be no causal connection between sin and death because of fossil evidence

28
Q

What is evolutionary monogenism?

A

The belief that a pair of pre-humans are given the image of god and moral responsibility quickly at one specific point in time and they soon sin

29
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What is punctiliar polygenism?

A

A group of pre-humans are given the Image of God and moral responsibility quickly at one specific point in time and they soon sin

30
Q

What is gradual polygenism?

A

Spiritual realities manifested slowly and mysteriously over an extended period of time and over many generations of individuals

31
Q

What are Christian theodicies intimately connected to?

A

The Cosmic Fall

32
Q

What do all theodicies include?

A

A notion that evil is for the greater good

33
Q

What is the premise of the Augustinian Theodicy?

A

Original Perfection

34
Q

What is the premise of the Irenean Theodicy?

A

Original Innocence

35
Q

What does Deus Absconditus mean?

A

God who hides himself. There is a hiddenness to God.

36
Q

What does Deus Revelatus mean?

A

God who reveals himself. God reveals himself through divine action, scripture, and nature.