Person of Jesus Flashcards
What is Mark 5:25-34 about and what does it show about Jesus?
- The woman with a haemorrhage
- portrays Jesus as a liborator because he allowed a women whos bleeding to toach his robes even though shes seen as being unclean
What is Luke 10:25-37 about and what does it show about Jesus?
- The good samaritan
- Jesus is seen as going against authority suggesting hes a liborator because samaritans were concidered unclean and contact with them would have required ashing ceremonies to remove contamination
What does Rahner say abour Jesus?
- for Jesus to have a fully human consciousness, he must have had an unknown future in front of him as this is central to humanness
- he suggests thinking of an onion and layers, Jesus’ consciousness is clostest to the surface and his divine consciousness is deep within
What is Luke 15:11-32 about and what does it show about Jesus?
- the parable of the lost son
- shows that Jesus is a teacher of wisdom because he shows that to have wisdom and be wise you shuld have good judgement
What does Hick say about Jesus as the son of God?
claimed that Jesus was not the son of God in an unique sense but was only a human ‘guru’ and moral ‘role model’
What does hypostatic union mean?
the belief that Christ is both fully God and fully human, two natures united in one purpose
What does homoousius mean?
of the same substance or the same being
What did Bishop Appolinaris of Laodicea say about Jesus’ soul?
- he had the idea of Jesus’ divine soul replacing the corrupt human soul
- the church disagreed with his idea
What does Aslan say about Jesus as a liborator?
- Jesus was involved in far more confrontation than the bible presents
- the early church may have tried to hide the presentation of Jesus as a revolutionary, maybe to protect themselves from persecution
What is John 9:1-41 about and what does it show about Jesus?
- the healing of a man born blind
- the miracale showcases Jesus’ divinity and that he is the son of God because he is performing something that no ordinary person could do
How does Jesus’ baptism support his divinity?
- God had bever appeared to anyone in public before
- God said “this is my son - of who I am very proud”
the quote strongly shows that Jesus is the son of God
How is Jesus’ divinity expressed in the resurrection?
- Jesus rises from the dead which is not a normal thing dor humans which suggests that he is beyond a normal human, proving his divinity
What did C.S. Lewis say about Jesus’ qualities?
Criticised people who accepted Jesus as a teacher of moral wisdom, but not as the Son of God
Two quotes
What are Dawkins and Hitchens opposite views on Jesus as a moral teacher?
D - ‘Jesus was a great moral teacher
H - ‘Jesus wasn’t just a moral teacher’
