Theology III Flashcards
Secularism
Sigmund Freud
Religion x4
Wish fulfilment
Thou shalt not question
Great services for human civilisation
Taming of the asocial instincts
Secularism
Richard Dawkins
Best quotes
Faith is the great excuse to evade the need to think
Secularism
Dawkins
Causes of religious belief (or such) x3
Psychological predispositions
Things for which there is no evidence
Infantile
Secularism
Dawkins
The purpose of the universe
What is the colour of jealousy?
Secularism
Dawkins
Atheism leading to immorality
Not the smallest evidence
Secularism
Dawkins
Education
Hell-bent on ruing the scientific education of countless thousands of… young lives
Secularism
McGrath
Criticism of Dawkins x4
Inept
[Not] evidence based scholarship
Aggressively peddled by athistic fundamentalism
Work of propaganda
Secularism
McGrath
God of the Gaps + Rationality
Foolish move + increasingly abandoned
Inner consistency of belief in God
Secularism
McGrath
Dawkins’ point on indoctrination hidden by
Noise of hyped-up rhetoric
Secularism
Benedict XIV
x2
Atheist extremists [Hitler + Stalin]
Spiritual and human resources
Liberation Theology
Matthew 5:5
Preferential option for the poor
Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
Liberation Theology
Matthew 20:16
Reversal
The first shall be last and the last shall be first
Liberation Theology
Leonardo Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology
Use of Marx/second act praxis x2
Marx as an instrument
Hermeneutic of our times
Liberation Theology
Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
Praxis
Philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it
Liberation Theology
José Ognacio González Faus, Systematic Theology
Structural Sin
When humans sin, they create structures of sin, which in their turn, make human beings sin
Liberation Theology
Jose Miranda
Christianity is communist x2
For a Christian to claim to be anticommunist… without doubt constitutes the greatest scandal of our century
Notion of communism is in the New testament, right down to the letter
Liberation Theology
John 18:36
Against a realised eschatology
My kingdom is not of this world
Liberation Theology
Cardinal Ratzinger, Instruction
LT’s use of Marx
Critically unborrowed
Practical negation
Liberation Theology
JP2, Reconciliatio et Penetentia
Rejects structural sin
Sin… is always a personal act
Gender and Theology
Luke 10:38-42
Equality model
Story of Mary and Martha
Gender and Theology
Ephesians 5:21-33
Hierachy model?
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ
Head
Gender and Theology
Galatians 3:28
Equality model
There is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ
Gender and Theology
1 Peter 3:7
Hierarchy model
The weaker sex
Gender and Theology
Mulieris Dignitatem
Motherhood
Precisely the woman’s ‘part’
Gender and Theology
RRR, Sexism and God-Talk
Jesus
Unwarranted idea
Necessary ontological connection
Maleness of Jesus’ historical perosn and the maleness of the Logos
Gender and Theology
RRR, Sexism and God-Talk
Jesus’ maleness
No ultimate significance
Gender and Theology
Mary Daly
God/Mary
If God is male then male is God
Total rape victim
Gender and Theology
Letty Russell
Mary Daly
Critique ad rem becomes a critique ad personam
Gender and Society
Betty Friedan
Book and concept - 2nd wave feminism
The Feminine Mystique
Gender and Society
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
3x
One is not born, but rather becomes a woman
It is civilisation as a whole that produces this creature
The eternal feminine
Gender and Society
Michel Foucault
Purpose of sex and controlling sexual practices
Ars erotica
Scientia sexualis
Gender and Society
Genesis 3:20
Motherhood
Mother of all living
Gender and Society
Mulieris Dignitatem
Encroaching upon men’s role
Contrary to their own feminine ‘originality’
