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48 Cards in this Set
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Patristic Period (Keys) |
(100-500) Augustine Christian Dominance/Growth |
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Patristic Period (Developments) |
1. Sort out NT 2. Creeds of Christianity 3. Basic Doctrines (teachings) |
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Middle Ages and Renaissance |
500-1400 Thomas Aquinas First Universities The Great Schism- Catholic vs Orthodox 1054 |
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Reformation and Post-Reform |
1400-1700 Luther & Calvin Importance of the Bible (sola scriptura) translate Bible |
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Modern and Post-Modern |
Reason Schleicrmacher - Christianity must adapt Barth - ignore modernity, focus on the word Atheism & Pluralism |
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Theology |
theologia "to speak about God" Plato - "The Republic" |
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Sources -> Branches of Theology |
Scripture -> Biblical Tradition -> Historical Reason/Experience -> Philosophical All 3 -> systematic theology |
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ecclesia reformata sempre reformata |
Reformed Church will always be Reforming |
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Tasks of Theology |
Describe (faith) -> the Church Critical (judging) internal -> Church external -> Society/Culture Apologetic (defense of) ->soc/cult ; Academy |
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Criteria of Theology |
Orthodoxy - Correct Doctrine Coherence - statements make rational sense? relevance- experience, help live Christian Life |
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fides quaerens intellectum |
Faith Seeking Understanding |
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Hebrews 1 (faith) |
"Faith is the assurance of things hoped for. The convictions of things unseen." |
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Faith & Hope are... |
Connected |
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Bertrand Russell |
1872-1970 English Atheist and Pacifist |
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Russell's Criteria to be a Christian |
Believe in... God Immortality Christ was the best and wisest of men |
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Evidential Atheism |
Not believing based on a lack of evidence |
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a priori |
ontological arg- Being of God |
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a postorior |
Cosmological- first cause Teleological- world has design/purpose/end... |
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Response to Evidential Atheism |
1. Try to give counter-evidence 2. Question the Assumptions 3. Level the Playing Feild |
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Revelation |
Latin: Revelare Greek: apokelyptein |
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General Revelation |
God reveled through nature/creation available to all Roman's 18-20 |
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Special Revelation |
Reveled through the Bible available to elect |
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The Word |
Jesus Christ Bible Proclamation |
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Bible- Narrative |
God speaks to us in a level we understand Divine Accomodation |
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Bible- theocentric |
Bible tells who God is |
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Bible- Holiness |
Set apart |
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Bible- canonicity |
Bible is the Rule for Faith and Life |
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Bible- Authority |
Has authority because of God (not Church) |
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Inspiration |
theo pneostos - Breath/spirit of God |
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Organic conception |
Balance of humanity and divinity of the Bible |
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Bible- Infallibility |
Bible will not slip in respect to its purpose of telling us about Good |
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Bible- Innerancy |
Bible will not cause us to slip in ANYTHING not true |
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Bible- Sufficiency |
Tells us enough about God to find Saving Grace |
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Bible-Necessity |
sola scriptura - By Scripture Alone |
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Hermeneutics |
Art of Interpretation |
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Hermeneutic Principles |
1. Literary- take text literal vs poem/metaphor 2. Historical- texts have 2 contexts: Historical and Modern Theological- interpret scripture in light of other scripture |
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Belgic Confession |
New Reformed Christians wrote to clarify their beliefs |
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General Revelation Alone |
Deism- Jesus doesn't say anything new that GR doesn't say already |
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Special Revelation alone |
Karl Barth- sola scriptura |
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Both Revelations |
John Calvin- GR is insufficient, necessity of SR |
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sensus divinitatis
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Sense of divinity All people conceive that their is a God |
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Why do only few people seem to KNOW God |
-suppressing the truth -people create their own image of God -God as an emergency measure only |
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John Calvin |
16th Cent French Protestant Reformer Studied Law in Paris 1532: sudden Conversion 1536: Geniva William Fearl convinced him to stay 1559: Genivan Academy Servetus Episode |
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Institutes of the Christian Religion Reasons for writing? |
help people read the Bible apologetic (asking King for tolerance in France) |
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Modern Skepticism |
Descartes (decart)- Founder of modern/ doubtful world |
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Carl Marx |
Class warfare influenced the way we think |
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Nietzche |
weak trample the strong RESENTMENT |
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Freud |
-conscious -subconscious |
