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The Person Of Jesus Flashcards

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Incarnation

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Means ‘in flesh’ - God becoming flesh as a human being in ther erson of Jesus Christ

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Christology

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The area of christian theology about the nature of Jesus Christ’s relationship with God

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Docetism

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Jesus only appeared to be fully human; this was that God could communicate with humans

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christ-event

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Jesus’ birth, ministry, death and ressurection. The significance of Jesus is not in one event but in the whole of his life and its relationship with history both before and after

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Son of God

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Jesus’ special relationship with God

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Liberator

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Controversial view of Jesus as a political freedom fighter and as one who sided with the pooor and marginalised agains the rich

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Form of life

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Historical, sociological, moral and psychological conditions in which ordinary language operates and has meaning

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Torah

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Jewish law and teaching to have been given to moses

Contains the first 5 books of the christian bible

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Sermon on the mount

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Jesus’ longest discourse on ethics containing rance of religious and moral issues

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Samaritans

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A group of Jews living between Judea and Galilee - seen as racially impure

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Zealots

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1st cent religious group, often using violence with the aim of ending the Roman occupation of Palestine

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Exegesis

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Close analysis and interpretation of a text

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Son of God: Mark

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Mark 6 v 47-52

  • Jesus walking on water
  • only someone who was divine would be able to perform a miracle such as this
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Son of God: John

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John 9 v 1-41

  • the healing of the man born blind
  • power only the son of God could have
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Wisdom teacher: Matthew

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Matthew 5 v 17-48

- sermon on the mount (teaching about the law, anger, adultery, divorce, promises, revenge, love your enemies)

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Wisdom teacher: Luke

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Luke 15 v 11-32

  • the parable of the lost son (for forgiving father)
  • teaching how you should live, treat others (your children)
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liberator: Mark

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Mark 5 v 24-34

  • healing the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years
  • freeing the woman of the pain that she had been in
  • allowing her to partake in public worship
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Liberator: Luke

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Luke 10 v 25-37

  • the parable of the good samaritan
  • Jesus liberation is offered to all
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Jesus did think that he was divine

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  • Luke 2 ‘Didn’t you know I has to be in my father’s house’ (Jesus as a child lost in the temple)
  • Pauls letters indicate an assumption that Jesus was divine
  • Jesus was keen not to overwhelm his audience and so wanted to keep his divine actions a secret at the start of his ministry
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Jesus did not think that he was divine

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  • we cannot use the gospel as evidence to conclude that Jesus thought he was divine (they are just stories)
  • the clearest claims of Jesus divinity came from John’s Gospel which may have been added by later writers
  • Jesus understood himself as a prophet and Messianic figure, he wanted to fulfil the prophecy
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Jesus was only a teacher of wisdom

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  • Jesus may have come to shake up Jewish practices but all he did was reform Judaism through challenging the way of the religious leaders of his time
  • miracles can be rejected, so can the resurrection, leaving only a wisdom teacher
  • the supernatural is to be dismissed, they are unscientific inventions of the early church to prove his divinity
  • strip away the supernatural and we are left with a wisdom teacher
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Jesus was not only a wisdom teacher

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  • it is wrong to say that Jesus was a teacher because as the Som of God this loses sight of who he is
  • can’t just categorise him into one ‘box’ he can be more that just a wisdom teacher
  • he did not only teach of wisdom, you can’t just place him in a narrow category
  • if you remove the supernatural there is no reason for having another faith that is not Christianity
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Jesus was more than a political liberator

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  • Jesus the liberator was not just about politics he was also a religious liberator
  • he liberated people first, freeing the outcasts of society
  • he should not just be classed as a liberator, he was also a teacher and a miracle worker
  • he said ‘my kingdom is not from this world’
  • ‘live by the sword die by the sword’ - more of a pacifistic statement
  • his disciples would have been arrested alongside him for being part of a revolution
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Jesus was not more than a political liberator

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  • ‘politics’ referred to religion as well as politics in his time, he was freeing all people from themselves
  • when Jesus liberated people he did so because society made life worse for them
  • he work can be mainly focused on politically liberating people
  • it was Jesus relationship with the authorities that got him killed demonstrating a political revolution
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Jesus relationship with God was very special

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  • there earliest Gospel downplay Jesus’ divinity - there would have been more said if it were true
  • Jesus had a close relationship with God calling him abba
  • Jesus would not have taught his followers to try to follow his example spiritually if Jesus had anything more than an excellent relationship with God
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Jesus relationship with God was truly unique

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  • Jesus’ miracle demonstrate the power of God, there was no other miracle worker like him
  • Jesus forgave sins in the way that only God could
  • Jesus access to the divine comes from God
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Nestorius view on Jesus as the son of God (the early church)

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  • The divine and human are completely separate

- they only became one when human Jesus’ will became one with God’s will

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Apollinarius view on Jesus as the son of God (the early church)

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  • Jesus’ human reason was replaces with God’s reason
  • he was fully human but could not be tempted to sin and know how to respond to a moral dilemma
  • his human reason was replaced with divine reason
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Docetism view on Jesus as the son of God (the early church)

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  • Jesus only appeared to be human

- it would be impossible for a perfect God to become an imperfect human

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Christology from above

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Focuses on Jesus divinity and his coming to earth to re-establish a relationship with God

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Christology from below

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Focuses on Jesus example as a human being, and his teachings

- demonstrates to other human beings how to establish a true relationship with God

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High christology view of Jesus as unique

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  • Jesus was unique because only Jesus was divine and Human
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Low christology view of Jesus being unqiue

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  • everybody is unique, so even is Jesus was only human, his teaching and personal insight into the will of God made him unique
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John Macquarrie

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  • everyone lives their own historic existence in their own way, Jesus was no different
  • rejects the claim that any one event on Jesus’ life makes him unique but his place in history ad effects on others does
  • Jesus’ life is a defining moment in the human relationship with God but Jesus is not unique in this as other religious figures have contributed to this
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E. P. Sanders view on Jesus being unique

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  • we cannot use words such as ‘unique’ when describing Jesus
  • his miracles and teachings about God’s grace make him substantially different from others of his time, but we will never know if he was truly unique
  • the view requires faith which is subjective
  • we cannot claim it as significant in debate
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John Hick - Jesus as the son of God

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The resurrection is a metaphor of Christian hope over despair rather than a historical event

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S.G.F Brandon - Jesus as a liberator

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BOOK; Jesus and the Zealots (was condemned)

  • argues that Jesus was a politically driven freedom fighter
  • gospel writers toned this down and made him look like a pacifist
  • Jesus authority was politically
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Liberation theology

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  • many found inspiration off Jesus as a zealot
  • argued that the chruch had portrayed Jesus as politically neutral for too long
  • interpreted the gospel as Jesus showing basis toward the poor and exploited in society wanting justice on the earth
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Gustavo Gutierrez - Jesus as a liberator

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  • we should recognise that Christ faced the same sorts of problems that the world faces today
  • Jesus was not ‘limited to a purely spiritual plane’
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Camilo Torress on Jesus as a liberator

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  • was part of the communist People’s Army and was killed in action
  • said ’if Jesus was alive today he would be a guerrillero’
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Evidence of Jesus as liberator in the gospels

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  • mixed with tax collectors and sinner
  • was seen with the marginalised in societies
  • surrounded himself with ‘people of the land’
  • ‘ the last shall be first and the first shall be last’
  • he challenged authority
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Jesus as a wisdom teacher

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  • Jesus’ authority comes from his wisdom and understanding demonstrated through his moral teachings
  • Main 3 issues he taught in: forgiveness and repentance, motive and inner purity, personal responsibility
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Hick - Jesus as a teacher of wisdom

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  • once we start to interpret the supernatural references as symbolic of his close relationship with God then we will be able to enter fully into a dialogue with other faiths
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Jesus teaching on forgiveness and repentance

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  • Jesus and Zacchaeus, paying back all those that he had cheated
  • the prodigal son, father showing repentance and being humbled by the experience
  • the Lord’s prayer, taught us to forgive
  • ‘seven times seventy seven’
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Jesus teaching on motive and inner purity

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  • he admired the ‘righteousness’ of the pharisees, recognising that morality is about development of character
  • sermon on the mount - controlling your inner desires
  • aim in life is to ‘be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect’
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Jesus teaching on personal responsibility

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  • morality requires personal responsibility
  • Jesus pointed out hypocrisy surrounding the sabbath eg feeding and ox but not helping the six and preventing treatment
  • ‘the sabbath was made for man, not man made for the sabbath’
  • Jesus cured the six on the sabbath (was a death penalty for doing this)
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high christology view on divinity

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  • ‘i am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except through me’ AND ‘i am’, suggest he DID know that he was God
  • Jesus miracles are evidence that Jesus was divine
  • Jesus miracle are a sign of salvation, there is no symbolism
  • his resurrection is the most significant to suggest that he was divine
  • if he did rise from the dead then there can be no doubt that he was God
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Low christology on divinity

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  • Jesus miracles were not just special to him as other people in the bible also did them eg Moses parting the Red Sea
  • the miracles are an extension of his teaching as he used them to teach important ideas
  • hid miracles are a sign of salvation
  • taking the christology view if Jesus just died on the cross with no resurrection

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