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Jesus Christ Flashcards

theology: the person of Jesus Christ

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Wittgenstein on Tolsoy’s ‘Gospel in Brief’.

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Begun “the path to a great discovery” and came to understand Jesus’ authority as rooting from his teachings of wisdom.

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Wittgenstein’s argument in ‘The Tractatus’.

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An idea not lived has no value.

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Connection from ‘The Tractatus’ to Jesus.

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Jesus is the ‘living word’ who examples authentic humn life with truth, committment, courage and acceptance.

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Wittgenstein’s ‘form of life’ concept.

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Philosophy is meant to define and clarify meanings to allow people to live an authentic life.

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Matthew 5:17, Jesus’ announcement before the Sermon on the Mount about laws and prophets.

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“I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil.”

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Metanoia.

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Greek, repentance or radical change of heart.

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The Parable of the Lost Son (15:11-32) meaning.

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Jesus’ acknowledgement as forgiveness as difficult but necessary as a ‘cancellation of debts’ to permit people a fresh start.

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Matthew 18:22, Jesus on how many times a person should be forgiven.

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“Seventy times seven.”

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Matthew 5:20, Jesus on righteousness.

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Teaches people to exceed the righteousness of the Jewish lawyers and Pharisees.

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Matthew 5:48, Jesus on perfection.

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“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

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Jesus on personal responsibility.

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Criticises the Pharisees for the hypocrisy of feeding an ox on the sabbath but not healing a person (Luke 13).

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Mark 2:27, Jesus on the Sabbath.

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“The Sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the Sabbath.”

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What John Hick calls Jesus and other famous teachers of wisdom.

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“Gifts to the world.”

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Benefits of viewing Jesus as a teacher of wisdom.

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Allows more cohesion with other religions as does not make an exclusivity claim to Jesus and more people can engage with Christianity as it does not rely on trancsendant components.

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Negatives of viewing Jesus as a teacher of wisdom.

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Undermines the holiness and sanctity of Christianity and prevents belief in many other key parts of what makes Christianity.

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S.G.F Brandon’s argument in ‘Jesus and the Zealots’.

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That the Gospel toned down the political freedom fighter of Jesus to make him a pacifist.

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Leonardo Boff on Liberator Jesus.

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“A Christology that proclaims Jesus Christ as the Liberator seeks to be committed to the economic, social and political liberation of these groups that are oppressed and dominated.”

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Camilo Torres Restrepo on liberator Jesus.

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“If Jesus were alive today, He would be a guerrillero.”

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Guitterez on liberator Jesus.

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“The liberation which Jesus offers is universal and integral; it transcends national boundaries, attacks the foundations of injustice and exploitation…”.

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‘Hamartoloi’

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Sinners, used by Jesus to refer to religious leaders.

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‘Am ha’artez’

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‘People of the land’ who Jesus befriended.

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Luke 10:25-37.

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The Good Samaritan Parable.

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Mark 5:24-34.

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Jesus touches a bleeding woman.

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Interpretation of “Kingdom of God”.

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Jesus’ promotion of the people to uproot and revolutionise the societal and political structures of the day to found a new era in history which was built on the morals he promoted.

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Contradictions of the liberator Jesus interpretation.

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  • Jesus condemns Peter for drawing a sword on a Roman soldier come to arrest Jesus.
  • Authorities would arrest his associates a well as him if he were a political threat.
  • Jesus “withdrew again to the mountain by himself” when followers announced they wanted to make him a King.
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Messiah (Hebrew) or Christos (Greek).

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Anointed one.

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Jewish meaning for ‘Son of God’.

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Someone anointed to carry out Gods plan on earth.

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Mark 15:39, a centurion seeing the cruxifiction.

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“Truly this man was God’s son!”

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451AD Chalcedon definition of Jesus.

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“One and same Son, the same perfect in Godhead and the same perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man.”

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Christology.

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Theology concerned with Jesus and God’s relationship.

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Christology from above/high christology.

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Focus on Jesus’ divinity and God’s act of bringing humanity back into relationship with him.

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Christology from below/low Christology.

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Focus on Jesus’ message and teachings.

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John 14:6, Jesus’ description of himself reminiscent to that of Gods to Moses in Exodus.

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“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

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John 10:30, Jesus on Himself and God.

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“The Father and I are one.”

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John 14:28, Jesus on God compared to Him.

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“The Father is greater than I.”

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Jesus’ miracles.

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“Miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father’s work.”

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Terms used to reference Jesus’ miracles in the gospel.

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Mighty works, wonders, signs, etc.

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Scholar suggestion on miracles as insights.

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Miracles were insights/metaphors and forms of parables to illustrate the Kingdom of God, rather than suspension of natural laws.

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Theotokos.

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Mary as God-bearer.

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Nestorius on the incarnation.

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Christ and God were entirely seperate until Jesus’ will became one with God’s will.

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Apollinarius on the incarnation.

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The incarnation replaced Jesus’ ordinary human reason with God’s will.

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Doectic Christians on the incarnation.

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Jesus was not fully human but was fully divine with a special knowledge of God.

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Where is the Biblical vision for a renewed society aligned with God’s will.

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Isiah 35:5-6.

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Interpretation of John 9’s healing of a blind man miracle.

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Metaphor for people’s growing faith in Jesus and salvation after being ‘blind’ to the truth of God’s power.

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Interpretation of Jesus’ walking on water.

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Reminiscent of the Holy Spirit over the waters of chaos in Genesis, before bringing order and harmony.

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St Paul on the resurrection to the Corinthians.

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“First fruits” of the harvest.

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Wolfhart Pannenberg on the resurrection as a confirmation of Jesus as Son of God.

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“Only because the end pf the world is already present in Jesus’ resurrection is God revealed in hi.”

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John 20s’ story of doubting Thomas.

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Example of resurrection as transformation of Jesus’ body into the spiritual state but also experience of God’s presence to confirm Jesus as Lord who can be worshipped as God without blasphemy.

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E.P. Sanders on Christian claims of Jesus as unique.

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Claiming Jesus as Son of God cannot be historically or factually confirmed, and faith and history are separate.

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John Hick on the ressurection.

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It was metaphor for triumph of hope over despair.

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John Macquarrie on uniqueness of Jesus.

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Too ambigious and unable to be empirically confirmed or denied, so should be abandoned as an issue.

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Christ-event.

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Term for Jesus’ birth, ministery, death and ressurection, used by schoars to insinuate a lack of specific moment of significance in Christ’s life but that the significance was his impact following.

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