Th501 Midterm Flashcards
Two great “mysteries” of the Christian faith:
Trinity; the ______ mystery.
And the Incarnation; the ______ mystery
“necessary” mystery &
“free” mystery
Term for what is shared in common by Father, Son, Spirit:_____(Eng.) ______ (Gr.)
nature/essence (Eng.)
ousia (Gr.)
Term for Father, Son, Spirit as distinction in Trinity:_____(Eng.) ______ (Gr.)
person (Eng.)
hypostasis (Gr.)
Term for interpenetration or co-inherence of Father, Son, Spirit:
perichoresis
Two famous theologians n 20t c. who sparked ‘Trinitarian Renaissance’:
Karl Barth & Karl Rahner
Considered to be the most important theologian of the Trinity in the Latin/Western church:
Augustine
Term for Trinity in eternity:
ontological
Term for Trinity in time and history:
economic
Trinitarian heresy in which Father, Son, Spirit are temporary manifestations of one God:
modalism
Trinitarian heresy in which Son or Spirit are not fully equal to the Father:
subordinationism
Three essential statements on the doctrine of the Trinity:
A. There is only 1 God.
B. This 1 God exists eternally in 3 persons.
C. These 3 persons are completely equal, each fully possessing the divine nature.
Trinity: “one ______, three _____”
Christ: “two ______, one _____”
Trinity:“one nature, three persons”
Christ: “two natures, one person”
First four Ecumenical Councils: location/name
Nicea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon
First four Ecumenical Councils: decisions summary
N. Jesus (& HS) = fully God
C. Jesus = fully human
E. Christ = 1 person
Ch. Christ has 2 natures
Atoms
Democritus
Everything is made of water.
Thales
“You can’t step in the same river twice.”
Heraclitus
“Know thyself.”
Socrates
Real knowledge is knowledge of the Forms. (also, knowledge is a Justified True Belief)
Plato
Forms are embodied in individuals. Knowledge is derived from sense experience.
Aristotle
The simplest hypothesis is more likely to be true.
William of Ockham
Knowledge is based on sense experience. Society is based on contracts between individuals.
John Locke
Knowledge is based on clear and distinct ideas. “Cogito, ergo sum.”
Descartes
Valid knowledge is based on logic, mathematics, or sense experience. We can observe ‘correlation’ but not prove ‘causation.’
David Hume
We can never know the thing-in-itself, only the thing as it appears to us. The mind imposes the categories of space, time, and causality on our experiences.
Immanuel Kant
History is the dialectical movement (thesis ->antithesis ->synthesis) of Absolute Spirit.
Georg Friedrich Hegel
Random variations, population pressure, and natural selection give rise to new species.
Charles Darwin
The ruling ideas of any age are the ideas of the ruling classes; ideas are the reflections of social structures. “Religion is the opiate of the masses.”
Karl Marx
‘God’ is the human projection of an infantile ‘father’ figure.
Sigmund Freud
“God is dead.” Ideologies are thinly-veiled rationalizations of the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is the ‘cash value’ of an idea.
William James
“I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.”
Jean Francois Lyotard
‘Knowledge’ is produced and constricted by those with power, and expressed in ‘discourses’ that justify their dominant and privileged places in the social order.
Michel Foucault
Words in a text refer only to other words in the text – not to ‘things’ outside the text.
Jacques Derrida
“Truth is what my colleagues let me get away with”
Richard Rorty
“There is no fixed meaning in a text. Meaning is a social construction by communities of interpretation.”
Stanley Fish
4 sources (of truth):
- Empiricism
- Rationalism
- Intuitionism
- Testimony of a credible witness
3 tests to verify (sources):
- correspondence
- coherence
- consequence
2 types of sources:
primary or secondary
Axiology
“What is the highest good?”
Aristotle’s 4 Causes:
Material Cause - the stuff out of which something is made.
Formal Cause - the defining characteristics of (e.g., shape) the thing.
Final Cause - the purpose of the thing.
Efficient Cause - the antecedent condition that brought the thing about.
‘4 Ontologies’ (Dr. Davis’)
- Pantheism- ‘prehistory’
- Materialism- ‘modernity’
- Virtualism- ‘postmodernity’
- Theism- ‘eternity’
Holy Spirit = God:
Acts 5
1 Cor 3:16
Jesus = God:
John 1
Mk 1
Phil 2:5-6
Holy Spirit is NOT the Father:
John 14:26
Holy Spirit is NOT Jesus:
John 16:7
Jesus is NOT the Father:
John 8:16
All 3 persons of trinity present in scripture but distinct:
Mt 28
1 Pt 1:2
