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60 Cards in this Set
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Why did he create?
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as a manifestation of his holiness
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What is the natural world?
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God’s good creation
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Who is God as creator?
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transcendent and immanent
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What’s his relation to creation?
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he rules over creation as holy creator
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creation is an act of
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imaginative love
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Omnipresent
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there is nowhere in God’s creation where he isn’t
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Omniscient
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seeing and knowing all things throughout his creation
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Just
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impartial and equitable in his action, always seeking to make wrongs right
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Faithful
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fully trustworthy and loyal in the relationships he forms
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Loving
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giving himself for the good of the other, even suffering for their good, even for those who oppose him
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Transcendence
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separate from and exalted above his creation
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Immanence
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fully present to and truly dwelling within his creation
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Holy
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separate from, distinct from everything he has created, and in particular, from sin and evil
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Eternal
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existing from before the creation of all things and through to the consummation of all things
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Ontological holiness
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God is essentially distinct from his creation
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Moral holiness
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God abhors sin and evil
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Ontological eternality
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God is beyond time
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Existential eternality
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God is present within time
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Immutable
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unchanging in his essential nature and character
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Omnipotent
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almighty, all-powerful, so that God is able to do anything he wills to do
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Sovereign
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King and Lord over all things
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Sovereign will
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God’s ultimate purpose and plan for al things
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Moral will
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God’s design and desire for his creation
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Elohim
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– “the strongest one”
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YHWH
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– God’s covenant name, “I AM”
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Trinitarian theology
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– using the doctrine of the Trinity as the key lens through which to study God and all things related
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Trinity
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– God exists as a plurality of persons within an essential unity
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Dyadic affirmations
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– two in one
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Triadic affirmations
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– three in one
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Incipient Trinitarianism
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– of confession, incomplete doctrine of the trinity
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working of the trinity
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God the Father acting through Jesus Christ the Son by the power and presence of the Holy Spirit
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Arianism
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– “the Son is created divine, and therefore not eternally God”
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Modalism
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– “the trinity is just three modes of God, not three distinct persons”
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Doctrine of the trinity from
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creed and council of Nicaea
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Shema
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– “Hear O Israel: YHWH (the Lord) is our God, YHWH lone”
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Monotheism
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- only one God exists (and is therefore worthy of worship)
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Monolatry
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– only one God is worthy of worship (although there may be other gods)
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Henotheism
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– only one God is worshipped (though other gods may exist and others may worship them)
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“What is God”
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approaches the study in a scientific way
Impersonal force Generic deity |
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James Sawyer this about theologians
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“The question isn’t whether we’ll be theologians, but what kind of theologians we’ll be”
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How do you do theology well?
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Doing theology well:
1. Ask good questions 2. Use good resources 3. Develop good answers |
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what are good resources?
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a. Inspired scripture – Biblical theology
b. Theological tradition – historical theology “engaging in Great Tradition” c. Sound reason – systematic theology d. Personal experience |
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Moral theology
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– theological ethics
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Practical theology
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– how we live
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Fides quaerens intellectum
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– “Faith seeking understanding”
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4 longings
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Longings:
1. Justice 2. Relationship 3. Spirituality 4. Beauty |
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Animism
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– forces we can’t see
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Atheism
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– no god
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Polytheism
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– many gods
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Naturalism
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– forces of nature
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Monotheism
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– single, divine being
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God
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– Theology proper
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Revelation
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– Bibliology
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Humanity
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– Anthropology
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Sin
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– Harmartiology
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Christ
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– Christology
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Salvation
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– Soteriology
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Holy Spirit
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– Pneumatology
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Church
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– Ecclesiology
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Future
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– Eschatology
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