Below is the list of key terms and concepts you all put together at Friday's class. I have edited them down to their bare essentials so you can use the list for reviewing your own notes and going over the readings again.
feel free to use the comment section on the to raise questions or offer ways of defining this items. As I said, on Monday we will create a question set based on this list.
Section 1: Language, Texts and the Concept of God
- Being human,
- Revelation & reason:
- Bible: New & Old Testament (Jewish Scriptures).
- Literary modes of expression.
- The Trinity
- Scripture and history
- Scripture and human enquiry
- “Word made Flesh”
- Fides quae
- Fides qua
- Augustinian Hermeneutic
Section 2: Why the Old Testament Matters
- The dominant themes of the Old Testament (plus role of Genesis in setting up these themes): Covenant, Movement to monotheism, Salvation
- 2 approaches to understanding the Old Testament (Manichean, Unfolding Revelation)
- 3 different topics in the Old Testament (prophecy, law, writings)
- What are the four different author types in Genesis (JEDP Theory)
- Theophany
- Mosaic Covenant
- OT sectons: Torah (teaching), Ketuvim (writing), Nevi’im (prophets)
Section 3: Why the New Testament Matters
- Gospels-(Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John)
- Synoptic Gospels,
- ‘Q’ source
- Acts- Greek and Roman History
- Ars dictaminis
- Pauline, and Deutero-Pauline letters
- Apocalypse
- Jewish-Christianity
- Jesus as the messiah
- Struggled with resistance to Jesus’ message against Palestinian Jew
- Sack of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
- Gentile Church
- Nature of Christian Life: Gnosticism, Leadership, Faith and works
Section 4: Why Jesus Matters
- Heavenly Christ
- Man of the indefinite past
- Hellenistic Hero
- Revolutionary
- Man of the spirit
- Prophet of Social Change
- Apocalyptic Prophet
- Savior
- Jesus as prophet, priest, and king
- Savior and mediator
- atonement and redemption
- antagonists in the “passion” narrative
- Prophet as Confronter and foreteller
- The Kingdom of God
- Jesus’ relationship with society’s outcasts and rejected
Section 5: Why Chistian Community Matters: the Early Church
- Geographic growth of Christianity: (Judea, Syria, Asia Minor, Lower Nile [Egypt], North Africa)
- Lex Orandi and Lex Credendi
- Bishops, priests, deacons
- Martyrdom and Martyrs
- Monks, Nuns, Hermits
- Edict of Milan
- Impassibility of God
- Created and Uncreated
- Perfection of unity and imperfection of multiplicity
- Arius of Alexandria and Arianism
- Council of Nicaea
- Nicene Creed
- Homoousios
Section 6: Why Christian Community Matters: the Sixteenth Century Reformation
- Martin Luther
- “Faith Alone”
- John Calvin
- Anglicans
- Anabaptists
- Puritans
- Magisterial Reform
- Radical Reform
- Remnant Theory
- Reform Issues
- Faith, Grace, Works
- penitential system
- Indulgences
- Renaissance
- Authority
- Canon Law
- Tradition
