Theology Midterm Flashcards
Idolatry
Placing infinite desire onto something that is finite
Epektasis
Infinite ascent / progress
Anthropocentrism
Humans as gods / irresponsibility / isolation
“Human Centered”
Theocentrism
Humans as creatures (creations) / responsibility / community
“God Centered”
Teleology
definition and identification of things by the ends (purposes) they are designed to serve
Imago Dei
Image of God
Moral Evil
Corruption of God’s Desire, universal negative, God is not the cause (freedom and desire)
Natural Evil
Linked to God’s desire, net benefit, God as indirect cause (spandrel)
Incarnation
God became flesh, God assumed a human nature and became a man in the form of Jesus, the son of God
Gratuitous Suffering
An instance of suffering that is not coupled with any combination of goods whose goodness outweighs the badness of the suffering
Trinity
1 God with 3 persons, father, son, and holy spirit / Eternal / The word was with God and the word was God
Etiology
God indirectly the cause of this natural evil, by product of creating a material world
