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Theology Knowledge Needed Flashcards

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Jesus Christ - person and substance in greek

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Hypostasis and Ousia

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Example of harm of conversion

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John Chau, North Sentinel Island

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Pluralist who says that exclusivism is as bad as white supremacy

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Paul Knitter

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Propositional Logic guy and book

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Gary Slater, Scriptural Reasoning and the ethics of public discourse

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Former terrorist who says that reading is what converted him

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Maajid Nawaz, Radical. Established the Quiliam foundation

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William Lane Craig on secular society

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Christianity is ‘de-legitimated and marginalised’ if not allowed

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Who criticises contemporary society’s views on Christianity

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Paul Eddy

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What is the Catholic position on missionary activity

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‘Primar service of the Church’

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Who refuses to convert Jewish people?

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Giles Fraser. Due to the anti-semitic history

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Statistics on Christians in 2011 vs 2019

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59% vs 51% (Linda Woodhead’s research)

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Who emphasises importance of keeping religious texts in their own language

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Tom Hare - ‘retain their sacred character’

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What is the concept of wanting to be part of the Church?

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Votum Ecclesia

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What does Hans Urs Von Balthasar believe?

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Christianity should not be ‘watered down’ in the face of multiculturalism

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What is D’Costa’s cricitism of exclusivism and pluralism?

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Exclusivism - guilty of Christomonism
Pluralism - it is another form of exclusivism,

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What is Lumen Gentium

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Document which states that other religions have partial truth

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Luther’s critique of inclusivism

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People can only do good actions through their faith. Like fire and warmth, good actions only come through faith in God

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Who supports Hick’s pluralism against Sinkinson’s idea of revelation

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Avery Dulles - internal event, giving ‘new awareness’.

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Who argues against Swinburne in issues of the ‘why’ of physics

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Mark Tegmark

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What does Sam Harris say?

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Christianity does have a lot of fundamentalists - 1/4 believe that Christ will return in their lifetime.
Atheism has no content so cannot cause violence
Atheistic societies are the healthiest etc

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How does Dawkins describe Yahweh

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‘Bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser’

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What does Stanley Hauerwas argue?

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Church protects against totalitarianism by providing morals etc.

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What proof does Augustine give of Akrasia

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‘Only picked them so that I could steal’

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What does Romans 1:20 say, and how does Barth counter it? Which other scholar can you bring in?

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Supports Natural Theology - the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Barth says that it argues against natural theology because 5 verses later it talks about how humans commit idolatry. Grenz and Olson.

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What analogy is used by Calvin

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Mirror and Theatre.

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What does Gregory Palomas argue?

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Essence-energies distinction. Interact with God’s energies, not himself. E.g. we interact with sunlight, not the sun

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Who believes that Hell is a spiritual state, the result of conscience, a symbol of alienation and literal

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Origen, Gregory of Nysa, Tillich, Dante (and Calvin).

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Beliefs on Purgatory

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Foretaste of Heaven and Hell - Ambrose
Probationary school - Origen
Redemption of whole creation - Gregory of Nyssa
Literal place where purged - Dante

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What is Calvin’s term for God’s hidden will

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Voluntas abscondia

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What is Calvin’s view of election/predestination

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Double predestination. Must act morally because the elect must become more aware of their sinful state and the reprobate must not give an excuse to be punished in Hell

30
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Barth on election and atonement

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Jesus is both subject and object of election - Christ dies on behalf of people, but also reveals his friendliness to humanity in doing so.
Distinction between ‘calling’ and ‘status’ - everyone has the same status as being elected but people realise the calling differently.

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What is Barth’s term for the atonement

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Substitutionary theory of the atonement - in the hands of God but not a doctrine of terror

32
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Origen on Hell

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Spiritual state.
Each sinner kindles his own fire, interior anguish.
Not eternal - he believed in universlalism

33
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Greek word for universalism

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Apokatastasis

34
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Justification for Sensus Divinitatis

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Universal consent argument - Calvin and Cicero. Considering so many people believe in the divine it must be true.
Appreciation of asthetics
Conscience

35
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Aquinas on Faith

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Unformed faith - finding intellectual reasons for God’s existence
Formed faith - assenting to intellectual reasons as true.

36
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What is Tolstoy’s moral system called?

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ

37
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What is Brandon’s book called?

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Jesus and the Zealots

38
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Who counters Aslan and Brandon

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Bammel and Moule, Jesus and the Politics of the day

39
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Who ultimately rejects Jesus as Political Liberator

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David R. Catchpole, the Trial of Jesus

40
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Give some Bible verses which show Jesus as a spiritual reformer

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Mark 5 vs Leviticus 15, healing a woman who was considered unclean due to vaginal bleeding
Luke 10 vs Leviticus 19, parable of the good samaritan

41
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What is the word for substance

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Homoousios

42
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What is the Chalcedonian definition of Jesus

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Truly God and Truly Man

43
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What is God bearer word?

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Theotokos

44
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What is the Catholic Church’s view on miracles, vs a Low Christological one?

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‘Bear witness that Jesus is the Son of God’
Give spiritual insight - e.g. calming of the storm is a symbol of order over chaos

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What does Bart Erhman say?

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Only in John’s gospel Jesus claims to be divine, even though in Mark’s gospel Mark thinks he is divine but there is no self-identification

46
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What does Reimarus say about miracles

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Jesus only did them to those of faith, not those who were ‘learned’ or ‘sensible’. Also the text was written in Greek so no Palestinian Jews could understand it and refute it

47
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How does C.S. Lewis agree with ‘Religionless Christianity’

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Screwtape Letters

48
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What does Harriet Taylor argue?

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Enfranchisement of Women - first wave, rights to vote, social equality etc

49
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What does Kathy Rudy argue?

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Sex and the Church - Conservative.

50
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Who refutes McLanahan’s findings?

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Jessie Bernard

51
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What does Mulieris Dignitatem say about men caring for children?

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Not psychologically predisposed to parenthood

52
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Who reinterprets the idea of Mary?

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Ivone Gebara - she’s a single mother and dealing with her failure.

53
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What is the word used in Ephesians 5 for head?

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Kephale - source of life. Emphasis is on relationship, not authority?

54
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Who argues that motherhood can be good if freely chosen?

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Mary O’Brien

55
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When is God described like a woman?

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Isaiah 42:14 - described like a woman in labour

56
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Who describes God like a woman

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Julian of Norwich

57
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What does Daly call Christian morality

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Phallic morality

58
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Which passages of the Bible show its misogyny

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Deuteronomy 21, Numbers 31

59
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What is the ‘Background’ described as

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Dionysian

60
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What does Janet Soskice commit?

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Modalism

61
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What does Barth’s exclusivism commit?

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Christomonism (D’Costa)

62
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How does RRR interpret bible?

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Golden Thread, Diachronic Exegesis

63
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Who does RRR reference?

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Montanists

64
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Problem with RRR’s Golden thread?

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‘Canon within a canon’ (though RRR says they do this anyway)

65
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What does Paolo Freire argue for

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Conscientisation, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

66
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What are the 3 mediations?

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Socio-analytic, hermeneutic, practical

67
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What does Juan Luis Segundo argue for

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Hermeneutic of Suspicion (The Liberation of Theology)

68
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Who says that if you give food you are a saint but if you ask why they have no food you are a communist?

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Dom Helder Camerara

69
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What does Kee argue?

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Secularisation leads to alienation as well. Historical Materialism is an ideology - Marx allows ideologies. You can also have Christianity in ‘spiritual socialism’ if you act more on Marx now

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