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Religion |
to tie together |
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Theology |
discussion of God in context |
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Triangle of Religion |
- consists of God, self, and neighbor -goal is to bring the self and neighbor together through God |
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Carroll College is "Catholic" |
desire to introduce all members to Carroll community to the catholic teaching and introduce the love of God through all dimensions that they learn |
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Carroll College is "ecumenical" |
respects all religions that are in the community |
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Carroll is committed to "intellectual, imaginative and social awareness" |
Carroll goes above and beyond not just setting up students for their career but for making them have a more diverse education. They gain knowledge in other areas as well to help expand their availability |
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Three resources for theology |
bible, tradition, history |
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Explain four main positions on the relationships between religion and science |
- Conflict: competing narratives about reality and never get along - Contrast: two separate type of aspects and they don't talk to each other - Contact: come together and listen to each other, dialog -Confirmation: seeking fullness of reality, try to find what it means to be human |
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Science |
systematic study of empirical world through observation and experimentation |
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Scientism |
provides all questions: philosophy |
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What topics are outside the score of science? |
emotions, ethics, meanings, and purposes |
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Big Bang Theory |
Big Bang theory says that there is a beginning of time where there was no physical activity. Science can't reach the Big Band theory so the start of time is undecided. It provides two options: there were eternally existent elements or the elements were set in motion by a higher being. |
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What was the context of the relationship between religion and science before the 1800's and how did it change afterwards? |
Before 1800s: boundaries between the two were not limited After 1800s: science and religion were at convict with each other |
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What is the "myth" on the relationship between science and religion? |
religion is against science |
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Great Chain of Being and how does it contrast with evolution |
the statement that each creature has it's own place in the world. It contrasts with evolution because of a species that the develop and the Great Chain of Being is about staying in one spot. |
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What is the general history of the concept or "evolution" prior to Darwin? |
Evolution is an ancient position/concept that has been around for pre-socrates 600BCE |
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What did the Roman Catholic Church address early in the debates and what is the position on evolution? |
The Roman Catholics never condemned the theory of evolution, instead they rejected the spontaneous transformation between species |
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What was the position of John Scopes reflecting on his tial for teaching evolution on the relationship between religion and science? |
He believe in evolution and went to trial because it wasn't allowed to be taught in Tennessee so he fought for evolution. |
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What does religion mean etymologically? How does the meaning have an impact on how we may consider the role of religion? |
- A reflection that binds their loves together. - Religion doesn't have to be just about God it can be money, power, family, etc. as well. |
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In what ways are religion and spirituality connected? |
Both believe in a higher power. Both want a relationship with that higher power. They both have rituals/practices. They have respect for the sacred. Both fear failure. |
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What is the connection between Genesis 18 and the textbook reading on faith? |
Abraham relates to the bargains with God. Abraham questions God and justice, while God allows and encourages questions |
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What are the difficulties with defining or understand the concept of "love"? |
It is an emotion and it's hard to tell if someone loves someone there has to be trust that you love someone |
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What are the three academic rules for the study of religion? |
1) Everyone is allowed to question 2) Knowledge available for all-not based only on privileged beliefs 3) All beliefs are hypothesis
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What is the difficulty of the term "faith" in the English Literature? |
It's not a physical cat that you can see so it's hard to define and see in someone |
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Explain what it means that Tillich begins with a phenomenological approach |
It is what humans experience and the meaning bend their experience that they take from it |
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Explain Tillich's first premise and include reflection to the different view that faith is equal to belief: "Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned" |
Fatih is the starting point and belief comes after it Ultimate concern comes for the old testate and is the state of total surrender and sacrifice. It's the way of life. |
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Explain Tillich's view that "faith as ultimate concern is an act of total personality." |
Personality is the most centered act of the human kind and both conscious and unconscious elements participate in the creation of faith. |
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What three main components of the human person interact in the process of faith? |
Cognition: act of thinking Emotion: what moves humans Will: the want to choose it |
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Explain Tillich's point that "concern" points to a subject and an object of the concern. |
Man is driven to faith by his awareness of the infinite to which he belongs. Ultimate Concern contains a subject (person) and an object (what is being sought out) |
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What are the limitations of the subject (person)? |
The limitations of the subject is that it's a finite being that is limited by death, knowledge and time |
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How does the test that the object of concern must fulfill the requirements of serving the dual roles of source and destination for the particular person? |
Whatever the object of ultimate concern may be, the source should be the drive of their person and the end goal. |
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Explain an "act of faith is an act of finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite" |
a person has gained faith in God being the infinite and God and the infinite are at a mutual relationship |
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What impact does this definition have on the process of faith and the issue of certainty? |
It makes us escape our rational understanding and putting our faith into something that we can't see. |
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How does "courage" fit in this model? |
In faith, doubt is accepted by courage which is self affirmation in face of meaninglessness |
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What are the three forms of doubt that Tillich identifies? (IMPORTANT ESSAY QUESTION) |
- Methodological: physical world knowledge, open to future testing - Skeptic: rejection of all knowledge - Existential: doubt is always embedded in the end of faith and will never have full human certainty
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According to Cavanaugh, what is the "myth of religious violence"? |
religon has a dangerous tendency to promote violence |
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What are the difficulties with the concept of "religion" when you try to define it? |
- Religion can be defined by substance; belief in high being but then there is the question of what to do with the current religions that don't do that, there is no one element - If we define religion by it's characteristics and function then we get many different functions; unity, leadership, structure, tie belief/idea together, share through text, symbols |
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What was the context of the wars throughout Europe 1500s-1600s? Is violence only a problem for religions? |
- Conflict..... Europe was the Roman Empire - Rise as nation states - Religion trying to develop politics - No violence is a human problem that in one way is addressed through religion |
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What has been the common thread throughout the classes on Science, Faith and Religion? |
- think critically but differently - pay attention to details and arguments - avoid generalization |
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Canon |
"rule", "standard" officially accepted books for the community |
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Revelation |
God's self disclosure - self revelation |
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Pentateuch |
1st 5 books of the bible |
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Apocrypha |
"hidden" greek books |
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Deuterocanonical |
second canon for the Christians |
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Explain Tanak. What does it stand for? What are the three divisions? |
T = Torah (law) N = Nebiim (prophets) K = Ketubium (writings) |
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Why is the second placed in that particular position? When was the third section agreed upon? |
Nebiim is second because it interprets the Torah better. Old Testament decided - 1500s New Testament decided - 367 CE |
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What was the standard used for the texts that were included? |
No books written in Greek |
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Septuagint |
The Greek Old Testament. It is the Old Testament for the Christians |
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Why did Luther reject the Greek Books? |
They didn't suit his doctrines |
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What was Luther's guiding principle? How did the Greek books not fit with his principle? |
- Only Hebrew books in OT - Weren't in Hebrew |
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Why did Roman Catholics and Easter Orthodox accept the Greek books as inspired? |
divinely inspired |
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Around when did Christians officially name the books of the Old Testament? What are the implications for believers and views of God based on the process of how the books became officially accepted? |
- about 100CE - Ancient and in Hebrew, 400 BC and beyond is not included |
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Explain what it means that the community came before the text |
The community told the stories orally before they were actually written down |
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Hermenutics |
methods and tools for interpretation |
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Exgesis |
bringing the message out from the text |
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Eisegesis |
reading into the text taking the message in |
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Define and explain the concept of Total Inerrancy |
- Free of error, bible covers all aspects of life - 1st community |
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Define and explain the concept of Limited Inerrancy? |
- No errors regarding salvation but there are errors to geography, history, science - Limitations from humans, making choices, not everything is taken at face value - 2nd community |
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What type of difficulties will people encounter if the Bible is read in a strict literalist model? |
The meanings behind words might be different. It might be expressed differently |
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Synchronic methods of interpretation |
Looking at the same text in it's final form at the same time |
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Diachronic methods of interpretation |
Looking at the development of the text "across time" |
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What is the Historical Critical Method |
Looking at the customs/cultural methods of that time |
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What tradition is Genesis 1 connected? Give two characteristics that identify it with the tradition? |
- Roman Catholic - God is in all things (the fruit on the tree will make them like God) - God uses elements of creation to communicate a relationship (clothed Adam & Eve after they sinned) |
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What is the meaning of "the deep" in Genesis 1 and the connection to the Babylonian creation myth. |
(TAHOM) The sea or the deep oceans. Babylonian killed Goddess Tiamot and she cursed the earth and there was a battle for the creation. |
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What are the difference between the two accounts Genesis 1 and Babylonian. What are the theological messages that the Hebrew narrative is trying to get across? |
- Gen 1: no sense of battle, the deep (Tahom) was already there - Babylonian: Goddess Tiamat killed, created through battle - God came down to the earth to create it |
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Explain the separation of the waters above from the waters below |
God took the water above and made it the sky. The water below was the water on the ground and became the oceans |
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What was the cosmology of the ancient Hebrew people? |
Ancient israelites divided the world and the water |
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How is the world constructed? |
God creates through speech and then through separation. God put things into the right order/place |
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When God says "Let us make human," explain three possible interpretations to "Let us" |
- Christians refer to trinity - Heavenly beings - angles - royal we |
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Explain the significance of the concept of "image of God" in relation to ancient cultures. Who was considered the image of the ancient world? |
- Ancient cultures tried to create the image of God on their own - Kings |
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What is the theological significance of declaring that all of humanity is made in the "image of God"? |
- equalizing of all people - God is seen as king of all creation - people are representatives of God and are to care for the world |
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What is the significance of the "image of God" that was used by ancient rulers and placed at the borders of the kingdom? |
The rulers would make monuments of themselves to help them be everywhere at once. It showed that the King's rule extended where ever his image was. |
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What does the monuments disclose about how humans are placed in the world? What is the relationship of humans to creation? |
- God gave humans the power over the earth and God is the power of creation - Humans are a part of creation, God created them so He has power over them |
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How is the creation described in the second creation story? How does description of God throughout the narratives reflect the J tradition? What actions are performed by God that present God in anthropomorphic fashion? |
- It takes one day to create every thing. Man is created than plants and animals, then woman - God is refers to as Lord God - Lord = YHWY= J tradition -Gardner, matchmaker, anesthesiologist, surgeon, fashion designer |
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When Eve things about eating the fruit, how does she make her decision? What are the results-effects of the disobedience? How does the J tradition consider reality of evil? |
- She believes the snake instead of God and eats the fruit because the snake said it would open her eyes and she would see the world and be like God - Man: work will be harder Woman: child birth will be painful - Human choice/decision |
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Explain the different characteristics in the Noah and the Flood narrative that led scholars to identify two different traditions. |
J -YHWH is sorry - 7 pairs of clean animals, 1 pair of unclean animals - Rained 40 days - Dove was sent P - 1 pair of every animal - Rained 150 days - Raven was sent |
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What is the main message of flood narratives in other ancient cultures? Explain how the biblical flood narrative provides different |
- explains infertility as the will of gods - humans developed wickedness. More of an ethical view, infertility is not God's will |
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How is God identified in the ancestral history? What are the three promises God makes to Abraham? |
- God is identified as the God of Abraham, Isacc, and Jacob 3 promise: - Land - kids - everlasting relationship with God |
