Knowledge of God Flashcards
innate sense of divine plan
CCC
imago dei
Gen 2:7 spark of divinity
so many people pray, universal consent argument
+Macquarie, knowledge of god is accessible to all
Calvin
Senses divinités
universal consent
Romans 1:19
Even if no one believed, end still exist so no excuse
Mirror, lack of clarity comes from sin, epistemic distance
+ newman and butler, innate conscience
Descartes Innate of things E..g god Triangle Anselm - Kant - frege and Williams
natural theology plan
Innate sense of divine
Calvin
Descartes
Openness to beauty Calvin F.r. Tenant Aquinas, innnate goodness - Dufy
Order of creation
Paley - Dawkins, but Barbour
Aquinas
revealed Theo plan
Faith Aquinas (john 20:30) mediate rev Luther Titus 3:5 sin etc. +Aug - boghossian - Dawkins
Jc
Calvin, 2 fold knowledge
Rahner, touchstone for interp
Scripture
Fundamentalists, 2 Tim 3
Calvin
reason plan
Augustine
- god in nature
- reason is height of creation
- triad of mind knowledge and love. reflects trinity
aquinas
- height of nature
- five ways, our knowledge of god is consistent with rational reflection
- uncaused causer
Swinburne
reason = order and reg in world
design qua regularity
Ockhams razor
+herb of cherb. xianity is rational and based on innate sense of god
beauty and goodness plan
Fr tennant
Aesthetic principle
+ Johnathan Edwards, imitation of holiness of god
+ augustine
Calvin
Mirror
Conscience = joint knowledge. theory of correlation
accommodation, primary source of authority
Aquinas
NL
All good - synderesis rule
Reflected in world
order of creation plan
Aquinas Reg of succ Archer - Darwin - Calvin, knowledge is imperfect. need revealed as well
Paley
- hume
- mill
- Dawkins
Swinburne Physics and scientific knowledge ockham's razor design qua regularity \+ cicero
+ romans 1:19-22
+ Calvin, spark of glory
+f r Tennant, anthropic
faith plan
Aquinas
- importance of reaon
- grounded in revelation
- faith is intellectual virtue, has to be practised
- voluntary
Luther
- right relationship with god
- sin separates us from this
- salv through faith
- must have faith in JC
Better alternative
\+ bible, John 20 \+ Calvin, faith in gods benevolence - Dawkins, blind trust like tooth fairy - russell, god of gaps - boghossian, should be I hope rather than I know
Jc plan
pannenberg
- resurrection = act of self revelation
- established JC identity
- indirect revelation; accessible
Barth
- christocentric
- NT > OT
- JC Is full and final word
- JC is god
Rahner
- many layers like onion
- JC = touchstone for interpreting whole of gods rev
- scripture is important
+ John, word made flesh
+ miracles
+ Calvin, jc is redeemer. regenerates man
scripture plan
Niebuhr - narrative theology - god meets us in history through scriture - intersects with out story - not w of g \+ Ernest wright, living book
Calvin
- theory of correlation
- clearer view of god beacuase imperfect, 1 cor 13:12
- we are subjective, scripture can be obscure
Fundamentalist and CCC
- 2 tim 3
- divine inspiration
+ Barth, not static.. bible mediates JC authority. speaks through it (- Olsen)
- Michael Goldberg, res between bible and experience
- McGrath, should look at other religious stories
gods grace
rahner
- comes in variety of forms
- share gods transcendence when we think
- orientated towards divine rev
- no OS
- anonymous xians can still exp god grace
Brunner
- cannot use nat and rev
- original sin, humans been destroyed
- god comm through nature
- need conscience
- gods grace is liberating
HS
- irenaeus, HS inspired prophecies
- Calvin, HS revealed truth to humanity. allows us to know the divine
- gives wisdom, faith and confidence
church
general
- people of god
- gods repr
- body of christ
- revelatory fund e.g. eucharist
- safeguards wofg
rahner
- church makes JC present
- continues jc work
- built on prophetic rev in bible
- anonymous pianos
boff
- role of HS in church
- not confined to structure
- ecclesial consciousness
