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| God-talk; Talking about God and all things in relationship to God (Voss-Roberts); The systematic and rational study of concepts of God and of the nature of religious ideas(wikipedia); Faith seeking understanding (Anselm, premodern) |
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| (325) Issues included achieving a consensus on the divinity of Christ. The Nicene Creed affirms the full divinity of Christ in opposition to the assertions of the Arians, who preferred a creaturely status for Christ. Jesus is one substance (homoousios) with God. “one in being” “consubstantial” Establishing the divinity of Christ appears to be the start or beginning of debates concerning the trinity and subsequent debates regarding the nature of God. |
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Literally “The Rule of the Fathers” -Social Structure in which power is always in dominant men.
“Name given to sexist social structures….patriarchy is a form of social organization in which power is always ranked in the hand of the dominant man or men, with others ranked below in a graded series of subordinances reaching down to the least powerful who form a large base.” (Johnson 23) |
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Women defective because they aren’t male.
“Name commonly given to the personal pattern of thinking and acting that takes the characteristics of ruling men to be normative for all humanity. Androcentric order lifts up especially the adult ruling man as the paradigm for the humanity of all others in the human race. Women, children, and those who do not fit this standard are considered not fully human but secondary.” (Johnson 23-24) |
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The male symbol of God functions to privilege a certain way of male rule in the world and to undercut women’s spiritual power, women’s own sense of themselves as made in the image of God.
Patriarchal imagery functions as a tool of symbolic violence against women. Patriarchal symbolism is the worship of an idol.
“Speech about God in the exclusive and literal terms of the patriarch is a tool of subtle conditioning which operates to debilitate women's sense of dignity, power and self-esteem.” |
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| "The symbol gives rise to thought." |
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| a symbol is important in organizing thought, and Johnson asserts that thinking of God in female symbols recovers aspects (fundamentals) of God that are otherwise overlooked. “Language is formed by the particularity of women’s experience carried in the symbol. Women thereby become a new specific channel for speaking about God...” (Johnson 47, 215) |
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The idea that God tells us and shows us things; that truths have been directly imparted from a divine source.
-Apokalyptic - Apokolypsis: to unveil, reveal.
-General: in nature - is universally everywhere; nature.
-Special: mediated in highly particular ways thru scripture or divine interventions like incarnation of Christ.
Calvin: God cannot be comprehended by the human mind. What is known of God is known by Revelation. |
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Study concerned with the comparison of practices in different world religions. This is accomplished through shared expereince between the two religions.
Opens conversation to other religions.
Long "Dog's Curly Tail" compares Hindu Vedanta tradition with Christian Theodicy. |
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An approach to theology which stresses that God Cannot be known in terms of human categories. ( Derived from the Greek apophasis, “negation” or “denial” ) ( What God is not) These approaches to theology are sometimes associated with the monastic tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. (McGrath 465-6) (Hartshorne reading?)
Negating--God is *NOT* __________ |
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| What God is. A western approach that presume that God, or at least the attributes of God, can be known. Through revelation, scripture, nature, and discernment, Humans can know God or at least the nature of God. (presumptive? Arrogant?) Speaking about God using affirmative words. |
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| Comparing what God is and is not. It doesn’t describe God literally, but that we draw from our experience in order to say something true about God. Includes both Apophatic and Kataphatic. |
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| believed that the God of the OT was bad and that the God of the NT was good; his beliefs result in a sense of anti-semitism. |
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There are literal and non-literal ways of reading scripture. Johnson argues that the literal way of reading scripture is used to propagate oppression. "Inspired" or "God-breathed"
* Part of Wesleyan Quadrilateral of how we know God.
Hermeneutic - lens for |
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