Theology I Flashcards
Augustine, Knowledge of God, Death and the Afterlife, Jesus Christ
Augustine
Augustine, City of God
Pre-lapsarian sex
Had not been excited by lust
Augustine
Augustine, City of God
Original sin and seminal transmission
Seminally present in the loins of Adam
Augustine
Augustine, Confessions
Grace is decided by God
Not bestowed as a reward for merits, but it is freely given
Augustine
Augustine
Pre-lapsarian perfection
The lion and the lamb would be lying together
Augustine
Augustine
Post-lapsarian will
State of rebellion
Augustine
Augustine
Cannot know God’s mind
Secret yet just judgement of God
Augustine
Reinhold Niebuhr + G.K. Chesterton
Support for Augustine
Empirically verifiable + [evidence] in the street
Augustine
Pelagius
Why humans can be moral + God’s guidance
[Would not have] imposed commands upon men which man is not able to bear
Always assisted by divine help
Augustine
Philippians 2:13
Grace
For it is God who works in you… to fulfil his good purpose
Augustine
Romans 5:5
Love is a result of God
God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the holy spirit
Knowledge of God
CCC
Sensus divinitatis
The desire for God is written in the human heart
Knowledge of God
John Calvin, Institutes
Sensus divinitatis x2
By natural instinct an awareness of divinity
In the hearts of all people
Knowledge of God
Psalm 19:1
Natural theology
The firmament proclaims his handiwork
Knowledge of God
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics
Special Revelation
God can speak through… a dead dog
Knowledge of God
John 1:14 - Prologue
Incarnation
The word became flesh and lived among us
Knowledge of God
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics
No natural theology!
The infinite has no capacity for the divine
Knowledge of God
Romans 1:20
Supports Natural Theology?
[God’s qualities] have clearly been seen, being understood from what has been made
Jesus Christ
Freidrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers
View of religion/dogma
Extraneous Parts
Feeling of Ultimate Dependence
Jesus Christ
Rudolph Bultmann, History and Eschatology
Demythologisaion - Husk
Cosmology of a pre-scientific age
Jesus Christ
Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazereth
Why political liberator
Hard historical facts
Jesus Christ
Matthew 10:34
PL?
I have not come to bring peace, but the sword
Jesus Christ
Matthew 22:21 & 1 Maccabbees 68:2
PL
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s
Pay them in their own coin
Jesus Christ
N.T. Wright
Maccabbees and Matthew 22:21
Coded revolutionary slogan
Jesus Christ
David R. Catchpole, The Trial of Jesus
Not a PL
The reconstruction of Brandon must be rejected
Jesus Christ
John 10:30
Prologue
Jesus knows that he is the Son of God
I and the father are one
[The word was God]
Jesus Christ
Alistair McGrath
Son of God
Jesus does not appear to have explicitly used the term
Jesus Christ
E.P. Sanders
Resurrection
Resurrection is about faith in renewal, it is not a ‘historical category’
