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- The manifestation of the trinity at work in God’s economy of salvation
- How the triperson of the trinity works in the world, in turn how the trinity relates to each other
- Theologians ask, is there a difference between how God relates to the world or how God relates to himself? |
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- Latin term that means, “and the Son,” addition to the Niceno-Constantinopolitian creed that states that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
- The eastern church did not agree to this
- Became the final blow that split the church east and west |
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- Theory that states that God adopted Jesus of Nazareth as his Son.
- Jesus was born a human but became God’s Son at some point in his life
- Fails to point to Jesus’ eternal relationship with the Father |
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- 1563, formal articles that state the official position of the Church of England
- In response to the key controversies of the English Reformation |
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- 5th c. arose in city of Antioch
- Scriptural interpretation that emphasized the literal meaning of the text
- In response to Alexandrian interpretation using allegorical, moral, or spiritual meaning
- Chrysostom |
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- Rudolf Boltmann
- Interpreting scripture by finding the myths and replace them with modern equivalence
- Myths of the bible were outdated |
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- Greek word meaning fellowship, communion, sharing together,.
- Describes the community of Christians made possible by the Holy Spirit.
- Becomes the basic way of describing Christian life together as disciples |
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- Positive descriptions about God are impossible, thus must describe what God is not; God does not fit into normal categories of human thought
- Often called negative theology
- God is known positively though experience verse rational thought
- Eastern Orthodox Position
- Emphasized absolute transcendence of God contrary to liberal emphases of immanence
- Christ at the center of theology |
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- 20 c. German
- Father of neo-orthodoxy or dialectical theology.
- Emphasized absolute transcendence of God contrary to liberal emphases of immanence
- Christ at the center of theology |
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- North America during the 20 c. that attempted to maintain a firm commitment to the ‘fundamentals’ of the Christian faith.
- It was a reaction to liberalism or modernist forms of Christianity
- Emphasized the historicity of the miraculous events in the bible |
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- God reveals something about the divine order through the created order
- Revelation that gives general and indirect information to humans about God
- Available for all humanity |
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- The response to evil in the world that attempts to logically, relevantly, and constantly to defend God
- State that God is all loving and omnipotent despite the reality of evil |
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- 19c philosophers
- In response the Enlightenment; held that human knowing was dependent on the active mind
- Theology should be conducted from the foundation of our sense of being morally conditioned |
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| - Attempt to summarize the belief systems of religious groups through an organized system of thought |
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- Demonstrate the existence of God by appeal to observation of the world, its objects, and its processes.
- Thomas Aquinas, everything moves points to something moving it
- Chain of events leads to the First Mover that is unmoved |
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- Argues the existence of God biased on seemingly purposeful order of the universe that the world begins with a “divine architect” rather than a result of chance.
- Aquinus argued this as well as Paley in the 19 c. |
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- God’s being includes and permeates the entire universe so that everything exists in God.
- God’s being is greater than and not exhausted by the universe
- God is affected by each event in the universe, and thus, God’s knowledge must change and grow. |
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- Greek for “everything is God
- God and the universe is essentially identical |
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- Early Greek religious movement during NT times
- Gnosis means knowledge
- Devotees gained a special type of enlightenment that was attained by a secret of higher level of knowledge
- Spiritual realm over the material realm |
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- Latin phrase meaning creation out of nothing
- Augustine credited with development
- God created the universe without the use of preexistent materials
- Contrasts popular ideas by Greek philosophers that God created with preexisting materials. |
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