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What is the difference between an understanding of God as immanent and God as transcendent? Are the two mutually exclusive?
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Immanent is when God is a part of the universe. Transcendent is when God is a separate entity. They don’t have to be mutually exlusive like with david Griffiths, he claims that god is the source of creativity in teh world but allows free choice
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What are the three frameworks of Scriptural interpretation that Sölle suggests?
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Orthodoxy, liberation/radical, liberal
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3. What is the definition of theology according to Sölle?
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That which interprets scripture and tradition in a particular historical situation for the community of believers.
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4. *What role does desire play in prayer according to Ulanov? How does prayer intersect with morality?
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Prayer begins with desire. Prayer should bring you to a moral dilemma. ???
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5. What is the difference between natural and moral evil? Can they be related? If so, provide examples accordingly.
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Natural evil is natural disasters etc. Moral evil is caused by humans. Some of natural evil is worsened by moral evil. Allocation of resources vs. supply of resources.
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6. What are the six themes or ways in which thinkers try to resolve the problem of suffering identified by Stewart?
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Evil exists, God is all good, God is all powerful. Evil does not exist, not real. God is not all good. God is not all powerful. Karma. Harmony, Free will
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7. Identify the primary theme(s) in the theodicies of these thinkers’ approaches: David Ray Griffin, C.S. Lewis, John Hick, Doniger, Callahan, and Kushner.
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Griffin: God is the source of creativity in the world, but within the world there is genuine freedom and novelty. God is in you that you can choose to respond to. You can bring god into the world. No specific evil, god allows it to exist.
Lewis: god has to be within possibilities. Hick: Suffering is ment to develop your zoe. Suffering is the way to perfection. Doniger: Karma. Cause and effect. Callahan: Suffering in and of itself has no value but how you handle it is important. If you don’t respond to it in the right way you can create more evil. Empathetic suffering: when you suffer for a person. God feels our suffering but that doesn’t diminish his power. Kushner: Job reading. God is all powerful, but not necessarily all good. |
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8. Which of these themes do you find most evident in the book Silence. Explain why using examples from Silence.
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Hick, development of zoe
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9. How might different characters in the novel Silence intersect with themes from Callahan?
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Ferreira and Rodrigues. Rodrigues looks for Ferreira. The both experience empathetic suffering. They dealt with their suffering in a way to promote more goodness rather than promote more evil though they continue to live a life of suffering knowing the decisions they made.
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10. Why does Callahan approach the problem of suffering? What approaches does she explicitly reject as inadequate and why?
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Theodicies provide intellectual answers for the problem of suffering but those don’t really matter. What matters are the moral implications of the answer. If we don’t take suffering seriously we risk passivity and an increase in suffering. Suffering cannot be part of god’s plan, a blessing in disguises, a test of faith a, a needed punishment a privileged experience of Jesus’ death, suffering does not have inherent meaning. God does not act in in a violent manner, god suffers with us. Jesus worked actively to alleviate suffering so suffering cannot be good. It’s not a test of faith, etc.
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11. Callahan identifies Jesus’ ministry as responding to various types of suffering. (Callahan, 97f) Describe them.
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He helped those who had self-inflicted suffering or those who are blameworthy for their suffering and pain. He helps the innocent people upon whom unjust suffering has been inflicted.
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12. Callahan argues for a particular understanding of empathetic suffering and its role in Christian life. Describe it.
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Engage in other. Feel for them without getting lost in their pain. How we respond to the pain of other. People try to avoid interacting with others who suffer you should really try to empathize and have active love for people instead of shunning them. Protect yourself but empathize this other. Respond towards to victims, don’t blame them god suffers like a parent. Empathy expands which characterizes the love, friend, and creator. It does not require moral approval so we can feel empathy for all.
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13. How does one join their suffering to Jesus’ according to Callahan?
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We offer up our sufferings to Jesus, asking him to alleviate it. We share in the sufferings of Christ. Suffering can be given meaning since it can associate with Christ on the cross. Offering up suffering is also a form of prayer because we are expressing our love and desire to change it. You can join it to jesus’ by focusing and willing.
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14. Why does Johnson say that exclusive depiction of God in male terms is sinful? How does it harm men and women?
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She says that this is like idolatry and that is a sin. Its harmful because it sets human limitation on a greater being which diminishes God’s power. If gives a set of rules which dictate the roles of men and women in the church which does not allow for much flexibility. There is the risk that girls and women may internalize the idea of being inferior and
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15. *What is the relationship between sin and social sin? What is social sin? Provide an example.
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Sin is what is defined by the set of rules laid out in the bible. Social sin is larger systems that make certain kinds of sin the . Social sin is the structures and customs that hold a place for tradition sin in society. Larger systems that people become entrenched in. Sexism and racism are social sins. DEPENDS ON YOUR VALUES. Heathcare. Debatable.
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16. Consider some of the scenes from God on Trial. Describe it details and explain how it intersects with Hick, Lewis or another thinker from the suffering segment of this course.
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The man who had to pick a son. Lewis claims that you cannot have free-will without evil. Therefore, he had the ability to pick a child but with that ability came the horror of having to actually decide.
Empathetic suffering when the man had to go to the gas chamber and gave up his sleeping spot to the other old man left behind |
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a priori
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intellectual insight to prove gods existence
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a posteriori
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observations -> logical conclusion
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ontological
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God's being, no human experience
a priori ex: geometry, Descartes, essence of a triangle, perfect Existence is perfection, God is the most perfect, therefore God exists |
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cosmological
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only a supreme being could have come up with such a system
a posteriori |
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teleological
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form of cosmological argument emphasizing a type of order
a posteriori Ex: Paley, intelligent therefore maker. |
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Moral obligation
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Because we can make moral judgements there must be something greater than us that allows us to make these good decisions.
a posteriori |
