Otherness of God Flashcards
Self Test Q1.
How has “God” come to mean the things it does? Match each cultural force to the resulting approach or approaches.
- Christian tradition
- competing priorities
- Constantinianism
- the Enlightenment
- ingenuity
- pragmatism
A. vital Christianity
B. secularism
C. diversity
D. Therapeutic Moralistic Deism
E. cultural Christianity
F. indifference
Self Test Q1.
How has “God” come to mean the things it does? Match each cultural force to the resulting approach or approaches.
- Christian tradition ⇒ A. vital Christianity
- competing priorities ⇒ F. indifference
- Constantinianism ⇒ E. cultural Christianity
- the Enlightenment ⇒ B. secularism
- ingenuity ⇒ C. diversity
- pragmatism ⇒ D. Therapeutic Moralistic Deism
A. vital Christianity
B. secularism
C. diversity
D. Therapeutic Moralistic Deism
E. cultural Christianity
F. indifference
Self Test Q2.
Ludwig Feuerbach argued that belief in “God”
A. constructs a projection
B. is a coping strategy
C. reinforces group identity
D. sanctions exploitation
Self Test Q2.
Ludwig Feuerbach argued that belief in “God”
A. constructs a projection
Self Test Q3.
Work argues that secular arguments against God
A. apply, but only to the gods of other religions
B. apply to at least some representations of God in Christian circles
C. are no longer credible, since religion persists in our era
D. should be accepted, since secularism alleviates the problems it is responding to
E. should be dismissed out of hand because of their faulty suppositions
Self Test Q3.
Work argues that secular arguments against God
B. apply to at least some representations of God in Christian circles
Self Test Q4.
Using your own words, how would you describe the conviction that Work labels the Jewish and Christian “doctrine of hiddenness”?
Self Test Q4.
Using your own words, how would you describe the conviction that Work labels the Jewish and Christian “doctrine of hiddenness”?
The doctrine of hiddenness is the conviction that God is revealed through hiddenness, that creating images of God is not to be done but rather God will reveal himself to us through ‘hiddenness’ not through man-made images.
(not graded answer)
Self Test Q5.
According to the via negativa,
A. absolutely nothing can be known about any reality
B. absolutely nothing can be known about God
C. human categories apply only analogously to God
D. human categories apply straightforwardly to God
Self Test Q5.
According to the via negativa,
C. human categories apply only analogously to God
Self Test Q6.
Turn to Exodus 3:13-15. As you review the details of that passage, briefly list doctrinal points about the knowledge of God that Work tied to those details. Which can you remember without looking at the lecture outline? Try to use the technical terms if you remember them.
Self Test Q6.
Turn to Exodus 3:13-15. As you review the details of that passage, briefly list doctrinal points about the knowledge of God that Work tied to those details. Which can you remember without looking at the lecture outline? Try to use the technical terms if you remember them.
Your Answer:
God’s mystery because He is not naturally accessible to us, therefore epistemic humility
Via negativa, meaning God is wholly other (God’s holiness)
God is a personal God
Via positiva, God is known through his actions (what He does)
Self Test Q7.
El Elyon : Yahweh ::
A. Durkheim : Moses
B. “God” in America : the God of Israel
C. secularism : Jesus Christ
D. the God of Israel : Jesus Christ
Self Test Q7.
El Elyon : Yahweh ::
B. “God” in America : the God of Israel
Self Test Q8.
List key terms in the podcast. (I didn’t get to all the material in the outline, so restrict your list to words I actually used in the video.) Use ALL CAPS for the terms you don’t know, don’t understand, or whose relevance to the topic you don’t understand. For those you understand, think about (don’t write here) what role the concept plays in the overall structure of the lecture.
Self Test Q8.
List key terms in the podcast. (I didn’t get to all the material in the outline, so restrict your list to words I actually used in the video.) Use ALL CAPS for the terms you don’t know, don’t understand, or whose relevance to the topic you don’t understand. For those you understand, think about (don’t write here) what role the concept plays in the overall structure of the lecture.
Your Answer
- cultural christianity
- THERAPEUTIC MORALISTIC DEISM
- indifference
- diversity
- vital christianity
- doctrine of hiddenness
- secularism
- epistemic humility
- via negativa
- via positiva
- special revelation
- general revelation
- mystery
- revelation
- tradition
- holiness
- activity
- life
- unity
Self Test Q9.
What was an especially interesting or troublesome thing that you learned, and why?
Self Test Q9.
What was an especially interesting or troublesome thing that you learned, and why?
Your Answer:
The results of secularism, and how it gives us a mixed bag and sometimes the points may be valid but also may not be and how do we distinguish which are doctrinally correct.
