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35 Cards in this Set
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Hope and Longing
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Desire for union with God
-Unfulfillable on earth -Expand things that excite longing -Longing is ingredient of hope -Hope for others |
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Shalom
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-Universal flourishing, wholeness, delight
-the way things are supposed to be |
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Sensus Divinitatis
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-"sense of divinity" endowed by God to everyone
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God's Glory
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-Jesus' death was a triumph of self-giving love.
-God's glory becomes clearer when God/Son of God spends himself for the flourishing of others |
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Perichoresis
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-The divine hospitality between the three persons; "making room" for each other
-each person harbors other at center of being -Christ spreads this divine hospitality to God's creatures as the mediator of salvation -dynamic exchange of love |
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Creation
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-a way for God to spend himself
-an act of imaginative love -God graciously made room in the universe for other kinds of beings -Study of creation is opportunity read Scripture and nature together -parts of creation act 'in character ' by expressing their nature as God's creatures -God's providence over all creation (including culture) |
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Pantheism
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-Everything in the universe is one thing worthy of worship
-spiritual: everything is God/part of God -materialist; everything is world/part of world |
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General/Special Revelation
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-General: God's glory expressed in creation, available to everyone
-Special: corrects dull vision of general revelation |
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Dominion
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-responsiblity/stewardship
-part of Gen 1:26 cultural mandate -God assigns sub-kingdoms over which humans are responsible -care for the well-being of others -act like mediator of creation |
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Image of God
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-Humans are created according to God's kind, not it's kind
-To image God requires (a) care for creation (b) filling the earth with culture (c) living in loving communion with others like triune (social) God--the church as one (d) conforming to Christ in self-giving love |
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Meaning of Creation Doctrine
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-original goodness of creation-->all creation is potentially redeemable (including culture)
-all creation is intelligible b/c from wisdom of God -God and the world are distinct b/c he made it out of nothing from his enthusiasm for being -Love world without worshiping it; spirit often worse than body -The goodness of work and marriage (production & reproduction) -image of God-->human responsiblities and inalienable rights -need to balance individual and corporate identities -We are not God; rejection of materialist reductionism (in the scheme of things) |
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Materialist Reductionism
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Belief that humanity is product of evolutionary development and only contains matter
-"nothing but" matter |
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Creative Anti-Realism
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-our minds create reality; no working minds=no daily experience
-we create and re-create oursleves -Problem: as many worlds as people, no actual reality -Concession: we do see reality from points of view, appearences -Conclusion: Objective reality exists--what God thinks is true |
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Evil
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-any spoiling of shalom
-parasite on goodness |
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Sin
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-culpable evil
-God hates it b/c it violates law and trust -transgression or shortcoming |
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Original Sin
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-the corruption of first parents affects all future generations
-"conceived and born in sin" -innate human tendency toward sin |
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Corruption
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Ingredients of corruption
-perversion of goodness; turning God's gifts away from intended purpose -pollution: joining together what God has put assunder -spiritual AIds infects everything/one -systemic evil |
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Total depravity
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Pervasiveness of sin
-result of the multiplying power of corruption to affect everything |
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Common grace
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-The goodness of God shown to all (unbelievers too)
-unmerited set of gifts e.g. sensus divinitatus/ conscience -restrains corruptio, necessary to maintain civilty in human life |
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The Law (Ten Commandments)
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-set of requirements that people have to fulfill not in order to get rescued by God from slavery, but because they have been rescued (gratitude)
-exhibits God's grace -gives freedom from the controlling power of sin |
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The "Double Grace" of God
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-sanctification and justification
-releases, relieves, redeems |
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Atonement
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-self-sacrificial act or process that makes up for sin and tends to reconcile sinner with one sinned against
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Justification
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-God's acceptance of sinners on account of the atoning work of Jesus Christ; declaration that he will start working
-divine act that makes us "right with God" -forgiveness and reconciliation |
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Sanctification
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-dying and rising with Christ
-lifelong conversion from old self to new self -response to divine act of regeneration |
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The Kingdom of God
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-the whole universe
-kingdoms inside Kingdoms -successful living: living responsibly in our own kingdoms and meshing it with others'; fitting our small kingdom inside God's |
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Vocation
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God's call in every area of our lives
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Heaven
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-comes to earth
-God will dwell with us in new heaven |
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Martin Luther
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Protestant reformer in Germany
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Ulrich Zwingli
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-younger contemporary of Luther
-Switzerland -even more Protestant than Luther |
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John Clavin
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-escaped France to Switzerland
-protege of Zwingli -sought to establish Christian civil society in Geneva -believed education shaped Christians as better servants of God in church and society -believed education should include works of non-believers too -believed every vocation should be engaged as service to God, none excluded from Christian school |
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Abraham Kuyper
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-Dutch statesman, educator, theologian
-Christianity in all areas of life -God's sovereign in everything so everything will be redeemed -Turned Calvinism into broader social/political engagement |
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Liberal Arts
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-general, common knowledge, non-specialist
-Humanities + Arts/Sciences -Medieval Trivium=grammar, rhetoric, logic Quadrivium=music, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry |
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Scholasticism
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-During middle ages
-synthesis b/t pagan philosophy (Aristotle) and Christianity -Liberal arts-->philosophy-->theology -rhetoric<logic -Christian theology moved away from biblical categories into Aristotelian categories |
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The Humanities
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-Renaissance
-emphasized literary study -Protestant Reformers adopted: helped recover original teachings of Bible, make preacher's persuasive |
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The Research University
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-19th century Germany
-Enlightenment free inquiry -specialized learning -departments/disciplines -emphasis on research not teaching |
