Worldviews: Quiz 2 Part 1 (U2) Flashcards
Using the resources of the Christian faith to make practical decisions in life.
Theological Reflection
What are the 3 sources that the model in “reflection in ministry” points to for info to consider for triologue?
- Tradition
- Experience
- Cultural Information
3 Sources:
Tradition > What is it? (2)
- Roman Catholics hold it as the Old and New Testaments.
2. All various Church decisions made over the past 2,000 years.
3 Sources:
Tradition > How do we access it? (2)
- Thinking of Scripture
2. Herman Neutical Process
What is the Herman Nuetical Process?
3 questions we ask of every text.
In the Herman Neutical Process, what are the 3 questions?
- What it meant?
- What is always means?
- What is means to me?
Name it: These 3 questions are how we are going to access the Biblical meaning of Scripture.
Herman Neutical Process
3 Sources:
Experience > What is it? (2)
- The feelings, attitudes, and experiences of individuals within the issue or whatever.
- It’s going to be very personal - not common human experience.
3 Sources:
Experience > How do we access it?
- Rational Element
2. Extra-rational Element
Define rational element (3 sources > experience)
Involve ourselves in thinking and asking serious questions about what we have experienced in life and its impact on us.
Define extra-rational element (3) (3 sources > experience)
- Acting at a subconscious level.
- This is where you go to get a deeper look into other’s thinking processes.
- Empathetic listening skills and listening for emotion.
Name of person who created the Force Field Analysis?
Curt Lewins
Force Field Analysis:
Left force?
Driving force
Force Field Analysis:
Right force?
Restraining force
Force Field Analysis:
About driving force (6)
- Positive
- Reasonable
- Logical
- Conscious
- Economic
- “Driving” us in the correct direction
Force Field Analysis:
About restraining force?
- Negative
- Emotional
- Illogical
- Unconscious
- Social
- Psychological
3 Sources:
Cultural information > What is it?
The set of symbols, stories, myths, and norms of conduct that orient a society or group, whether cognitively, effectively, or behaviorally to the world in which it lives.
3 Sources:
Cultural information > How do we access it? (4)
- Through listening
- Through social sciences
- Imperial methods of data gathering,
- Science testing.
The method a 3 stage process
- Attending
- Assertion
- Decision
Kinds of theology
- Exegetical theology
- Biblical theology
- Historical theology
- Systematic theology
- Homiletical / practical / pastoral theology
Name thing:
Looking at what we can learn about a particular topic or idea from a particular passage of scripture.
Examples: background information = setting of life, setting of book, chart book, diagram, etc
Exegetical theology
Name thing:
Take all passages on particular subject and trace theme through the Bible. Looking for a theme as developed through Scripture.
Example: Looking for areas with unity
Biblical theology
Name thing:
Try to trace theology through History (more Church than Biblical history).
Example: Looking at development or topic of theme through Church history.
Historical theology
Name thing: Attempts to (1) universalize the theology of the first 3 levels and also (2) helps us understand integration of it.
Systematic theology
Name thing:
Attempt to take everything (other categories) and drive it home to “How then shall we live?”
Homiletical / practical / pastoral theology
List the 3 problem areas in theology.
- Metaphor
- Tentativeness and authority
- Politics
8 steps in doing theology
- Consciously reconstruct our pre-understanding.
- Inductively collect all passages.
- Exegate all passages.
- Collate passages into Biblical theology.
- Do historical theology.
- Study competing models.
- Reformulate for contemporary audience.
- Do systematics.
3 kinds of commands or statements in Scripture? (also define)
- Explicit commands / statements (universal issues)
- Implicit commands / statements (cultural issues)
- Scruples (matters of conscience)
Scruples:
“Do you sense true freedom in your spirit to participate?”
Personal
Scruples:
“Will you potentially cause others to stumble?”
Community faith
Scruples:
“What are the social connotations of the activity to the unbelieving community?”
Community of unbelievers
Stott, “Down to Earth”:
3 categories of how Christians need to process things.
- Customs which cannot be tolerated (never tolerated).
- Customs which can be temporarily tolerated (not ideal).
- Customs to which objectives need not be taken (indifferent).
