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Th501 Midterm Flashcards

1
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Two great “mysteries” of the Christian faith:
Trinity; the ______ mystery.
And the Incarnation; the ______ mystery

A

“necessary” mystery &

“free” mystery

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2
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Term for what is shared in common by Father, Son, Spirit:_____(Eng.) ______ (Gr.)

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nature/essence (Eng.)

ousia (Gr.)

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3
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Term for Father, Son, Spirit as distinction in Trinity:_____(Eng.) ______ (Gr.)

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person (Eng.)

hypostasis (Gr.)

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Term for interpenetration or co-inherence of Father, Son, Spirit:

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perichoresis

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5
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Two famous theologians n 20t c. who sparked ‘Trinitarian Renaissance’:

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Karl Barth & Karl Rahner

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6
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Considered to be the most important theologian of the Trinity in the Latin/Western church:

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Augustine

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7
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Term for Trinity in eternity:

A

ontological

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8
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Term for Trinity in time and history:

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economic

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9
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Trinitarian heresy in which Father, Son, Spirit are temporary manifestations of one God:

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modalism

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10
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Trinitarian heresy in which Son or Spirit are not fully equal to the Father:

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subordinationism

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11
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Three essential statements on the doctrine of the Trinity:

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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.

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12
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Trinity: “one ______, three _____”
Christ: “two ______, one _____”

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Trinity:“one nature, three persons”
Christ: “two natures, one person”

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13
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First four Ecumenical Councils: location/name

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Nicea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon

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14
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First four Ecumenical Councils: decisions summary

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N. Jesus (& HS) = fully God
C. Jesus = fully human
E. Christ = 1 person
Ch. Christ has 2 natures

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15
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Atoms

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Democritus

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16
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Everything is made of water.

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Thales

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17
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“You can’t step in the same river twice.”

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Heraclitus

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18
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“Know thyself.”

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Socrates

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19
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Real knowledge is knowledge of the Forms. (also, knowledge is a Justified True Belief)

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Plato

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20
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Forms are embodied in individuals. Knowledge is derived from sense experience.

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Aristotle

21
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The simplest hypothesis is more likely to be true.

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William of Ockham

22
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Knowledge is based on sense experience. Society is based on contracts between individuals.

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John Locke

23
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Knowledge is based on clear and distinct ideas. “Cogito, ergo sum.”

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Descartes

24
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Valid knowledge is based on logic, mathematics, or sense experience. We can observe ‘correlation’ but not prove ‘causation.’

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David Hume

25
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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.

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Immanuel Kant

26
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History is the dialectical movement (thesis ->antithesis ->synthesis) of Absolute Spirit.

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Georg Friedrich Hegel

27
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Random variations, population pressure, and natural selection give rise to new species.

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Charles Darwin

28
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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.”

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Karl Marx

29
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‘God’ is the human projection of an infantile ‘father’ figure.

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Sigmund Freud

30
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“God is dead.” Ideologies are thinly-veiled rationalizations of the will to power.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

31
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Truth is the ‘cash value’ of an idea.

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William James

32
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“I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.”

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Jean Francois Lyotard

33
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‘Knowledge’ is produced and constricted by those with power, and expressed in ‘discourses’ that justify their dominant and privileged places in the social order.

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Michel Foucault

34
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Words in a text refer only to other words in the text – not to ‘things’ outside the text.

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Jacques Derrida

35
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“Truth is what my colleagues let me get away with”

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Richard Rorty

36
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“There is no fixed meaning in a text. Meaning is a social construction by communities of interpretation.”

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Stanley Fish

37
Q

4 sources (of truth):

A
  • Empiricism
  • Rationalism
  • Intuitionism
  • Testimony of a credible witness
38
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3 tests to verify (sources):

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  • correspondence
  • coherence
  • consequence
39
Q

2 types of sources:

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primary or secondary

40
Q

Axiology

A

“What is the highest good?”

41
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Aristotle’s 4 Causes:

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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.

42
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‘4 Ontologies’ (Dr. Davis’)

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  1. Pantheism- ‘prehistory’
  2. Materialism- ‘modernity’
  3. Virtualism- ‘postmodernity’
  4. Theism- ‘eternity’
43
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Holy Spirit = God:

A

Acts 5

1 Cor 3:16

44
Q

Jesus = God:

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John 1
Mk 1
Phil 2:5-6

45
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Holy Spirit is NOT the Father:

A

John 14:26

46
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Holy Spirit is NOT Jesus:

A

John 16:7

47
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Jesus is NOT the Father:

A

John 8:16

48
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All 3 persons of trinity present in scripture but distinct:

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Mt 28

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Theology survey 1 (3 decks)

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