Key Terms and Concepts for Final Exam Review

Group 1: 

    Salvation
        Redemption – God buying us back
        Parts of sin
            Fallen beings
            Act against God
        Meaning of original sin
            Disorder
            Privation of being and of justice
    What is the point of being good
        Morality should not be imposed but appropriated
        Personal & social distinctions
        You may make a decision that will hurt you, is that anyone else’s business
        Social justice
    What’s the point of talking to other religions
        All one family with regard to race and creed
    Where do we go from here
        Hope of a future / meaning in life

Group 2: 

-   Sin: act against god, moral disposition
-          Ontological: something that changes nature (Adam and Eve changed human nature)
-          Anthropology: delves into what it means to be human
-          Humanity is sempiternal: has a beginning but no end
-          3 worlds of Karl Popper: Physical world, World of Ideas (concrete knowledge), World of the Mind (subjective knowledge)

-          Grace: getting what you done deserve, like a gift, grace perfects nature
-          A sacrament
-          The primordial sacrament: incarnation
-          What’s the point of being good – virtues, being moral
-          Deification: process of becoming a deity, all creation returns to God
-          Habit of Mind / Habit of Action
-          Suffering: everyone experiences it, the common thread between all of humanity, how does suffering lead to happiness
-          7 principles of Social Justice:

1.       Life and Dignity of the Human Person
2.       Community and the Common Good
3.       Rights and Responsibilities
4.       Option for the Poor
5.       Dignity of Work
6.       Solidarity and Subsidarity
7.       Care for God’s Creation

-          3 principles of Social Ethics
-          Nostra Aetate: dignity of human life, tolerance of other religions, “no person should be persecuted because of their faith”

1.       human dignity
2.       Pursuit of truth
3.       Comparative theology

-          Tolerance after Holocaust
-          4 issues for future of Christianity:

1.       Leadership
2.       Acceptance,
3.       Attrition
4.       Critical reflection

-          Eschatology: study of the end of history, Jesus second coming
-          Resurrection
-          Teleological: putting into perspective of the end
-          Semiotic: signs and symbols

Group 3: 

Terms
-Salvation
-Redemption
-Sin (Original, Social)
-Theological Anthropology
-Sempiternal creation
-Justice versus Mercy
-Social Justice
-Suffering
-Cuius regio eius religio principle
-Historiography
-Teleological Thinking
-Apocatastastis

Things
-Fallenness of humanity
-Fundamentals of Christian ethics
-Virtues
-Cardinal Virtues
-Theological Virtues
-Penitential Life
-Catholic Social Teachings
-Evolution of Tolerance
-Nostra Aetate
-Comparative Theology
-Eschatology

People
-Karl Popper and his 3 worlds
-Martin Luther
-John Calvin

Group 4: 

Virtue: theological virtues and cardinal virtues; and Morality: social vs. personal
Theological Anthropology- humanity as: creation of God, sempiternal creation,
defined as an embodied soul
Original Sin
Atonement- Jesus as perfect sacrifice; redemption; grace; restoration
Systemic/social sin
Justice vs. mercy
Sacrament
Deification
Social justice: rights and responsibilities, option for the poor, dignity of work,
solidarity and subsidiarity, care for God’s creation
Suffering and social ethics
Attrition
Purging
Christian Ethics
Eschatology
Teleological thinking
Semiotic thinking
Comparative theology
Christian concept of resurrection

Group 5: 

Sempiternal
Karl Popper
Fall of Humanity
Social Sin
Justice & Mercy

Point of Being Good
Redemption and Sacrifice
Christian Morality
Personal and Social Morality
Justice and Chastity
Premises based on God’s Wisdom, Humanity’s Fall, and Christ’s Saving Work
Habits of Mind
Habits of Action

Fundamentals of Christian Ethics (3)
Call to an ascetic and chaste life (monastic answer)
Suffering
Non-monastic and ascetic lifestyle
[4 principles of Christian Salvation]
Life, Justice, Truth

Social Justice
7 principles of catholic social teaching

Point to talking to other religions
Religious context of Christian orgins
Christianity as a minority religion
The Chrsitian Threat
The Christian Era
The Modern Era
Evolution of Tolerance

The Historical Impetus

Key Terms and Concepts for Mid-Term Review

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