Theology I Flashcards

Augustine, Knowledge of God, Death and the Afterlife, Jesus Christ

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Augustine

Augustine, City of God

Pre-lapsarian sex

A

Had not been excited by lust

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Augustine

Augustine, City of God

Original sin and seminal transmission

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Seminally present in the loins of Adam

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Augustine

Augustine, Confessions

Grace is decided by God

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Not bestowed as a reward for merits, but it is freely given

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Augustine

Augustine

Pre-lapsarian perfection

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The lion and the lamb would be lying together

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Augustine

Augustine

Post-lapsarian will

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State of rebellion

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Augustine

Augustine

Cannot know God’s mind

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Secret yet just judgement of God

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Augustine

Reinhold Niebuhr + G.K. Chesterton

Support for Augustine

A

Empirically verifiable + [evidence] in the street

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Augustine

Pelagius

Why humans can be moral + God’s guidance

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[Would not have] imposed commands upon men which man is not able to bear
Always assisted by divine help

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Augustine

Philippians 2:13

Grace

A

For it is God who works in you… to fulfil his good purpose

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Augustine

Romans 5:5

Love is a result of God

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God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the holy spirit

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Knowledge of God

CCC

Sensus divinitatis

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The desire for God is written in the human heart

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Knowledge of God

John Calvin, Institutes

Sensus divinitatis x2

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By natural instinct an awareness of divinity
In the hearts of all people

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Knowledge of God

Psalm 19:1

Natural theology

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The firmament proclaims his handiwork

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Knowledge of God

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics

Special Revelation

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God can speak through… a dead dog

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Knowledge of God

John 1:14 - Prologue

Incarnation

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The word became flesh and lived among us

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Knowledge of God

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics

No natural theology!

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The infinite has no capacity for the divine

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Knowledge of God

Romans 1:20

Supports Natural Theology?

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[God’s qualities] have clearly been seen, being understood from what has been made

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Jesus Christ

Freidrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers

View of religion/dogma

A

Extraneous Parts
Feeling of Ultimate Dependence

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Jesus Christ

Rudolph Bultmann, History and Eschatology

Demythologisaion - Husk

A

Cosmology of a pre-scientific age

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Jesus Christ

Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazereth

Why political liberator

A

Hard historical facts

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Q

Jesus Christ

Matthew 10:34

PL?

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I have not come to bring peace, but the sword

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Jesus Christ

Matthew 22:21 & 1 Maccabbees 68:2

PL

A

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s
Pay them in their own coin

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Jesus Christ

N.T. Wright

Maccabbees and Matthew 22:21

A

Coded revolutionary slogan

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Jesus Christ

David R. Catchpole, The Trial of Jesus

Not a PL

A

The reconstruction of Brandon must be rejected

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Jesus Christ

John 10:30
Prologue

Jesus knows that he is the Son of God

A

I and the father are one
[The word was God]

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Jesus Christ

Alistair McGrath

Son of God

A

Jesus does not appear to have explicitly used the term

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Jesus Christ

E.P. Sanders

Resurrection

A

Resurrection is about faith in renewal, it is not a ‘historical category’