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God and the physical world Flashcards

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what is dualism

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  • God and the world are separate
  • God is not the material cause of the universe, is the efficient cause (created the cause)
  • Aquinas - God has absolute control but allows autonomy. Balance of immanence and transcendence
  • Deistic model (Paley) - God leaves physical world to its own devices.
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what is pantheism

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  • God and the world are wholly one

- God is within everything and everything is God, physical world is God!

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Kung, the three Hindu positions about God and the physical world

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  1. Brahman and the world are wholly one
  2. Brahman and the world are wholly separate
  3. Brahman and the world are one amid their diversity.
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Hinduism, Brahman and world wholly one 2

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  • Sankara, (9th century) non dualism
  • everything is Brahman, we suffer from avidya don’t realize world is maya (illusion). Nothing beyond Brahman and no plurality within.
  • two level of reality, lower level the physical world with individuality. Higher level, realize atman is Brahman and that individuality is an illusion.
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Hinduism, Brahman and the world are wholly separate 2

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  • madhva, Vishnu is God, is separate from imperfect world. God is the efficient cause not the material cause.
  • similar to ideas of Greek philosophers - wholly simple God outside time and space. No relationship between God and physical world after God created it.
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Hinduism, b and world one amid diversity 2

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  • ramanuja, qualified non dualism. Brahman as personal God . Brahman release world from himself. Brahman and soul are not the same,
  • God can manifest himself on earth as Vishnu. God can therefore inhabit the physical world.
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Calvin view on destiny

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  • we are predestined for heaven and hell and nothing can change destiny.
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What is natural theology?

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Studying the physical world I get an understanding of God

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What is revealed theology?

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  • An understanding of God can only be given by revelation like religious experience or reading gods words in the bible
  • reveals doctrines which human reasoning could not discover.
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Problems with natural theology

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  • Calvin : physical world and humans are flawed by original sin.
  • Greek philosophy that all matter is evil.
  • need scripture to verify that understanding was correct
  • aquinas’ attribution : problem of evil? Wouldn’t want to accept that it is God who brings about bad qualities in people.n
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Good things about natural theology

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  • Brady on aquinas and analogy of attribution. Qualities we have come from God so we can talk about God in terms of these qualities. So can say that God is good.
  • purusha sukta : 1/4 of cosmic man is in physical world, so study of world can tach about God because is God. cosmos come from the divine and therefore is the divine.
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St Teresa of Avila 2

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  • non propositional revelations should be compared to the bible to make sure they were in accordance with one another. Bible takes authority if there is a contradiction.
  • study of physical world alone is not adequate
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Karl Barth 2

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  • rejected natural theology because no part of physical world other than Jesus can give understanding of God.
  • revelation is much more important since its direct from God. Only time world was a source of information about God was when Adam and Eve lived in Eden.
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What kind of theology did the reformation argue

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Revealed!!!

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Problems if God is in time 2

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  • if God is in time then God must be in Space meaning he would become an object and would be part of he univers as opposed to creator and sustainer.
  • God cannot know what happens in the future.
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Problem of immanence and transcendence

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  • if too transcendent : God remote and inaccessible without influence over creation.
  • if too immanent : reduces God to being within universe without the perfections of God.
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What is the monarchal model

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  • supports dualism
  • God governs world as a sovereign omnipotent lord, we are all totally under gods control.
  • Marx idea of oppressive religion
  • criticized by feminists and theologians because removes God from natural world and his love and tenderness.
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Deistic model

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William payley:God designed universe and leaves it to its own devices.
- argument for dualism, emphasis on duality.

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What is panentheism

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God and the universe are mutually dependent

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Migliore : George Henry has several analogies to speak of creation. What are thy? 5

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  1. Generation - God being like a father, points to gods creative love and parental care.
  2. Fabrication - depiction of God as a builder. God formed humans from the dust on the ground.
  3. Emanation - sending out, creation is an overflowing of gods fulfill ness.
  4. Mind body - world is the body of God. Expresses intimacy of relationship.
  5. Artistic expression - creation as a work of God. Connotes something routine, better than play. Free artistic expression.
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Problems with George Henry’s emanation idea

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Can suggest impersonal involuntary process. Has not gained wide acceptance

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George hendry, artistic expression

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  • creation born freely and acquires certain independence from creators
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Monism 3

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  • process model : God works within creation, when world changes and evolves, so does God. God is one of the many influences in the cosmos. Creative participant.
  • limits the omnipotence of God and denies controlling role.
  • (Kung) view of the Mystics. Elkhart - God creates world within himself. Gods self spreads out into all beings so that in the depths of the soul the mystic can experience that everything is God.
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Feminist models and panentheism 3

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  • see creation more holistically, relationship of integration.
  • Rosemary Reuther - Gaia hypothesis, the world is a living being which will sustain life.
  • Mcfague - the world is the body of God. Stresses interconnectedness and organic relationship between God and creation.
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Qualified dualism 5

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  • Kung says most common Christian view
  • God is superior to the world and the world is dependent on him.
  • God interacts with humanity through love. Is transcendent and immanent.
  • western Christianity - God as efficient cause of universe not material cause.
  • eastern Christianity - world needs to be cared for by God.
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Why is God immanent?

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  • Jesus is God in human form, also through Holy Spirit - trinity.
  • through visions and miracles. Communicated and interacts with his creation.

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