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40 Cards in this Set
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YHWH
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I am the one, or, I will Be (better than I AM)
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Adonai
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Jewish substitution for YHWH, means “Master”
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Kurios
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Greek translation of Adonai in the Septuagint
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Covenant
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a relationship of love and obligation between parties. In the case of the Biblical Covenant, these parties are unequal.
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transcendence
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God stands above and apart from creation
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immanence
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God is close to and involved with His creation
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Ontology
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the study of Being. What is true.
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Epistemology
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the study of how we know what is true.
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Frame’s statement of Biblical Transcendence
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God is distinct from creation as its Lord
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Frame’s statement of Biblical Immanence
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God is involved with creation as its Lord
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Frame’s statement of unbiblical Transcendence
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God is infinately removed from the world (radical empiricism)
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Frame’s statement of unbiblical Immanence
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God is identical to the world (pantheism or Process theology)
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Marcus Aurelius
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Roman emperor from 161-180. Stoic rationalist who was opposed to Christianity because of what he saw as its irrationality.
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Apologists
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Christian theologians who began to defend the faith against the arguments of the Greek philosophers.
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Natural Theology
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says that God’s character and essence can be understood by human rational means.
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Classical Theism
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the product of the syncretism of Greek thought and Biblical Christianity.
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Syncretism
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the bringing together of two opposing methods or principles so that the product is neither one nor the other.
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Analogy
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in Greek thinking, the idea that God can be known by reflecting on human beings and then extrapolating those ideas out into what would be appropriate for God's being.
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Supererogation
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(eminence) analogical expansion of “good” human characteristics to understand God.
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The way of eminence
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another term for Supererogation
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via negativa
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analogical understanding that God is in exact opposition to “bad” human characteristics.
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“Analogy of Being”
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Also called The Great Chain of Being. Part of classical theism/Thomism. Says that there is an epistemological correspondence between God and creation: God can be known through the analogy of creation.
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The argument from Motion is a _______________ argument
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cosmological
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The argument from Causation is a _______________ argument
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cosmological
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The argument from Contingency is a _____________ argument
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cosmological
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The argument from Morality is a _______________ argument
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moral
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The argument from Design is a ______________ argument
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teleological
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Aquinas’ five ways included arguments from
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motion, causation, contingency, morality, and design
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The argument from motion says that God is
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the Unmoved Mover
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The argument from causation says that God is
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the First Cause
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The argument from contingency says that God is
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a Necessary Being
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The argument from morality says that God is
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the Greatest Good
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The argument from design says that God is
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the Designer of the universe
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Anselm’s ontological argument
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God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived. That than which nothing greater can be conceived must exist both in reality and in thought since the reality of a thing is necessarily more perfect than the mere idea of it.
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Thomas Aquinas lived
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13th century
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Thomas Aquinas’ five ways found in
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Summa Theologica
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Anselm of Canterbury lived
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11th century
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Anselm’s ontological argument found in
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Proslogian
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What are some critiques of Aquinas’ five ways?
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1) each assumes that which it seeks to prove 2) they fail to show continuing existence 3) they don’t lead necessarily to the God of biblical revelation.
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Aquinas defined faith as
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intellectual assent to propositions
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