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| What does Wisdom Literature contain? |
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| a mesure of ultilitarian reasoning actions judged by consiquience. |
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| What does the Old Testement appeal to in Deuteronomy 27-30 |
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| ethical egoism and self-interest specifically in the covenant blessings and cursings |
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| What is the central theme of the OT? |
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| What does much of the civil law address? |
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| issues concerning propersty and economics |
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| Describe the fllowing term: Sabbatical Year |
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| legislation mandated that the Isrealites were to let the land rest every 7th year by not planing crops on it |
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| Describe the flowing term: Year of Jubilee |
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| Every 5th year all land was returned to orginal owners and slaves were set free |
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| Describe the following term: Law of Redemption |
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| if a person becomes so impoverished that he had to sell his land or himself into slavery in order to survive, then the nearest relative had the legal obligation ot buy the land or the person |
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| Describe the following term: Law of Gleaning |
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| a low mandating that when harvisting one's field the owner was to leave the peramiter of the field unharvested and only go through the field one time to gather crops for the benifit of the poor. |
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| What Specific Old Testement prohibitions structured the Isrealites society? |
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| Prohibitions of usery, of moving boundry stones that delinated a person's property, and perverting the legal system by showing bias, phrohibiting of excepting bribes |
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| Describe the central focus New Testement ethics |
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| Describe the divine command theory and other religous moral systems that are listed |
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| The divine comand theroy is the ultimate foundation for morality is the revealed will of God, namely, the comands of God found in Scripture. Other moral systems that use this theory are: Judiasim, Islam, Neorthodx Christanity, and many other polythestic religions |
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| It refers to general objective, and widely shared morral reveals that are not specifically tied to the special revelation of Scripture. It refers to God's revelation o fmorality on all sources ourt side of Scripture. It is general revelation to applied to morral value. |
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| What has God revealed to people ouside of Scripture |
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| What are the specific problems of utilitarianism? |
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- not only are the consequences of actions diffricult to predict and harm are neutral
- A lack of criteria to direct the distribution of benifits in a group
- dosent offer a plea of individual merrit
- ultiliasim is a system which the morality of an act is determined by an end result
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| Which ethical system cannot accound for the place of reason in eithics? |
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| Which type of revativism hold that all morality is relative to the situation in which one finds onesself, and one's moral obligaition is to do the loving thing in that situation? |
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| which type of relativism says that morality is determined by the individual? |
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| What are all appeals of relativism? |
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- Relativism is based on the important idea that morality does not develop in a sociolgical vacum
- Relativism comes from the way its presented
- Relativism comes from the emphasize on multicultulism
- Relativism comes from a modern emphasis on scientific objectivity
- its an alternative to absultism
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| What does the virture theory give proper emphasis to in eithics? |
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| Which ethical system says that morals must be lived and cannot be taught in isolation from real life? |
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| identify the 7 step process for makng moral decisions |
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- Gather the facts
- determine the ethical issues
- determine what virtures/priciples have a bearing on the case
- list the alternatives
- compare the alternatives with the virtures/principles
- consider the consequences
- make a decision
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Identify the issue in:
Roe v. Wade (1973) |
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| In interest of the 14th admendment the state of Texas legalized abortion only during the first trimester. |
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Identify the issue in:
Doe v. Bolton |
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| If an expecting nother was physically or phyclocialy stable she could abort the pregancy in the state of GA |
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Identify the issue in:
Planned Parenthood v. Danforth |
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| The court struck down limits on the freedom to obtain an abortion according to the standards set by Roe v. Wade. |
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Identify the issue in:
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) |
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| Prohibited the use of public funds or medical facilities for "nontherapetic" abortions |
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Identify the issue in:
Planned Partenhood v. Casey (1992) |
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| Provisions to Roe v. Wade that would require a 24 hour waiting period beofre the abotion which hte patient would be given information, parental consent for minors, and notification ot the husband. This would be exempit in an emergency. |
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| Describe what the chapter says about Psalm 139 |
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| Psalm 139 describes the intimate involvement of God in the formation of the unborn. And that this Psalm strongly suggests a contiunity of personal idetity that funs from conception to adult hood. |
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| Describe what the chapter says about Luke 1 |
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| when Marry goes to Elizabeth's house, Elizabeth reconises that Marry is preganent, even though it is not physicaly noticable. John who was still in Elizabeth's womb jumped for joy which was a significance in the importance of Jesus. |
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| State the 7 arguments for the pro-choice position |
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- A women has the right to do with her own body whatever she choses
- if abortion becomes illegal, we will return to the dangerous days of "back ally" abortion providers
- Forcing women, expecially poor ones, to continue with pregancy will create overwhelming finincial hardship
- society should not force women to bringg unwanted children into the world
- society should not force women to bring severly handicaped children into the world
- society should not force women who are pregant from rape or incest to countue their gregancies
- restrictive abortion laws discrimante against poor women.
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| in what sate is physician-assisted suicide legal? |
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| What is euthanasia? What does it mean? What term is it associated with? |
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It is the direct and intitional efforts of the physician or other medical professional to help a dying patiant decide.
Euthunasia means "good death"
The Term is associated with "mercy killing" |
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| What are the three ways by which a physician can render assistance to hasten the death of a patient? |
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- Termination of life support: withdrawing or withholding medical treatment from a dying patient allowing that paient to die (passive)
- Psysican-assisted suicide: The physician activly serves as a casual agent in the patient's death, by providing the means for death
- Euthuia-direct and intial efforts of medical professional to kill a patient
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| a document that allows a person to make medical decisions on how they would like to be treated before they can no longer make decisions. |
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| What is contained in a general and specific living will? |
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specific:How a person would like to be treated when not competent to explain ie.designation of another person to make descisions, to be taken off life support, ect.
general: a person dosent desire to be on life support if there is no hope |
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| What does the 1991 Patient Self-Determination Act requre? |
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| That whenever people are admitted to the hospital, thay are to be givin information on a living will for their future medical deiscions. |
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| What did the Supreme Court decide in its 1997 decision concerning the right to die? |
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| The Supreme Court overturned two lower court decisions, ruling that there is no cnostituionaly proteccted right to die. The court agured that there is a legally and morally relavent distinction between assisting suicide and withdrwaing life-sustaing treatments. |
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| What did the court decide concerning the legality of assisted suicide? |
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| The court did not say that assisted suicide is legal. It simply states that states are not violating anyone's right if they prohibit assisted suicide is illegal. |
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| The United Sates is one of few industrialized countries that does what? |
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| That retains capital punishment |
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| those who oppose the death penalty, since they favor abloshing the death sentence |
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| those who favor capital punishment becuase they favor retaining the death penalty. |
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| What does the eighth admentment protecct? |
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| protects individuals from cruel and unusal punishment |
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| Describe the arguments for capital punishment |
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- Expresses an appropiate demand for justice in society
- captial punishment provides a unique deterant to crime
- the cost of a life term is not somthing a society should have to bear
- it is not cruel and unusal punishment
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| Describe the arguments against capital punishment |
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- The death penalty undermines the dignity of persons made in the image fo God and cheapeans human life
- life reformation becomes impossible
- death sentences are usually accomponied by long expensive appeals
- the demand for "justice" is inconsistant with Jesus' eithics and forgivness, and rediption
- mistakes are inevitable and irreversable
- the way in which the death penalty is administered is discriminatory
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| Draw out any details related to capital punishment in the following verse: Genesis 4 |
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| the death penalty wasn't given to Cane and Leic but insteed used refuge cities |
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| Draw out any details related to capital punishment in the following verse: Genesis 9:6 |
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| The general priciple of "life for life" and the support for its drawn from the overarching theological truth fo man being made in God's image |
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Draw out any details related to capital punishment in the following verse: Numbers 35:30
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| it takes literaly two eye witnesses to justify use of the death penalty |
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| Describe war in the Old Testement, then list the conclusions that can be drawn for God's work in the church |
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| In the OT Isreal was commanded by God to go to war. Some of the wars were for surunding Isreal's borders, otheres were wars of nutrial defense, and other wars were aggresive attacts to push enimies out of the promise land. Isreal was a thoctic nation and there has been no nation like it. God had a special relationship with Isreal. Simply because God commanded and sanctioned Isreal's warsis justifed today. |
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| What spirit does the New Testament reflect? |
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| What did the Gospels and Acts never record? |
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| christians surving in the military and early chrstian martyers never offered resistance to their precesnse. |
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| Define "pacifists" and state their traditional belifes |
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Pacifists basically hold that participation in war is never justifiable.
Nonviolent pasifism-somone who does not belive in the use of leathal force or combat against another person
nonparticipation pacifism-the view that participation in war of any kind is not justifiable |
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