Summer Trials Quotes Flashcards
Ontological Argument - Anselm - definition of God
Proslogion 2 - ‘That than which nothing greater can be conceived’
Ontological Argument - Gaunilo
Pro Insipiente - ‘it must be said that [the island] exists’
Ontological Argument - Alvin Plantinga
God, Freedom and Evil - ‘No matter how great the island is… there could always be a greater’
Ontological Argument - Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - ‘Because we do not know the essence of God, the proposition is not self-evident to us’
Ontological Argument - Kant
Critique of Pure Reason - ‘Existence is not a predicate’
Ontological Argument - Kant (Existential propositions)
Transcendental Dialectic - ‘All existential propositions are synthetic’
Teleological Argument - Aquinas
Summa Theologica - ‘Supreme intelligence’, ‘not fortuitously, but designedly, do they achieve their end’
Teleological Argument - Mill
Three Essays on Religion - ‘Not even on the most distorted… theory of good’ [can an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God be responsible for the world]
Cosmological Argument - Russell
Why I am not a Christian - ‘Different logical sphere’
Cosmological Argument - Anscombe
Whatever has a beginning must have a cause - ‘without contradiction of absurdity’
Cosmological Argument - Copleston
1948 Radio Debate - ‘reason external to themselves’
Heteronomous Ethics - Richard Hays
co-ordinate the cultural logic of our own historical setting
Heteronomous Ethics - Hans Kung
What I believe - ‘Secular and ecclesiastical falsifications of Christianity’, ‘incomprehensible dogmas’
Heteronomous Ethics - José Miranda
‘You cannot be a christian if you are anti-communist’
Heteronomous Ethics - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Instruction - ‘critically unborrowed’ concepts, serves as a ‘practical negation’ of Christianity
Autonomous Ethics - Hans Kung
What I believe - ‘orienting himself or herself practically on this Jesus Christ’
Autonomous Ethics - Mark 2:27
‘The sabbath was made for man, not the man made for the sabbath’ - personal interpretation required.
Theonomous Ethics - Exodus 21:24
‘Eye for an eye’ - contrasted with Matthew 5:39
Theonomous Ethics - Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling - ‘Teleological suspension of the ethical’
Bonhoeffer - Black Christ
‘Black christ is preached with rapturous passion and vision’
Bonhoeffer - Sanctorum Communio
‘I-You’, ‘Divine You’
Bonhoeffer - Sanctorum Communio + Parable of Sheep and Goats
Matthew 25:40 - ‘Whatever you did for the least of these you did for me’
Bonhoeffer - Guiding Principles (5)
'National faith' 'Parliamentary era is out of date' 'Heroic piety' 'Marxism, the enemy of God' 'Mere pity is charity'
Bonhoeffer - Radio Broadcast
‘A strange transfer’
‘Collectivism that turns into an individualism to the nth degree’
Bonhoeffer - Propaganda Documents
‘Nordic standpoint’
Bonhoeffer - Bethel Confession
‘The fellowship of those belonging to the church is not determined by blood’ - first open criticism of Nazis
Bonhoeffer - Three principles
‘Put a spoke in the wheel itself’
Bonhoeffer - Nachfolge
‘Cheap grace’
‘Justification of sin but not the sinner’ - no metanoia
‘Costly grace’
‘Causes a disciple to leave his nets and follow him’
Bonhoeffer - Romans 13:8
‘He who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law’
Bonhoeffer - Letter to Reinhold Niebuhr
‘The terrible alternative’ to not taking action is watching the Christian civilisation crumble
Bonhoeffer - Ethics
‘It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than a lover of truth to lie’
‘Western void’
‘Religionless Christianity’
‘Replacement spiritualities’
Bonhoeffer - Coming of Age
‘Jesus disappears from view’
‘Stating honestly what they believe’ - less dogmatic and based on denomination
Theonomous Ethics - 2 Timothy 3:16
‘All scripture is inspired by God’
