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| The Law/Ten Commandments E |
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| The two tables of the law mean? Each table signifies what? How are the two tables related?—or what is the relationship between the two—or, what is the significance of the first table for the second table? |
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1. Fidelity to God
2. Ethics, community constituting laws
1 is supposed to come before 2 |
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| And, how does the Christian account of the relationship between the first and second tables of the Law differ from the ancient Greek formulation (i.e., Euthyphro’s versus Socrates’s formulation?) *Another way of thinking about this is: what is the relationship between God and morality from the view point of Christian ethics? |
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| You have to go through God to achieve morality in the Christian ethics. Socrates thought the gods LIKED morality because the recognized that it was good, but did not think that you went through them or that they created morals. |
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| Remember the significance of the meaning of the Hebrew term hinneni- Here I am |
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| *How does the Quranic version of the story (Sura 37) help to illumine the central significance of Genesis 22? |
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| The moral theory that best describes Christian ethics (relationship between God and morality)? |
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| The Christian ethical account of God and morality cannot be described by any one of these moral theories due to two the Christian ethical emphasis on God’s freedom and, correlatively, the constraints on human freedom. What does this mean? |
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| Teleological moral theory |
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| deriving from looking at the consequences of an outcome but is not consequentialism per say |
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| Deontological moral theory |
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| Adhering to rules that are given regardless of personal opinion or person ethical code. Obligation, obedience. |
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| Engaging in a series of practices over time to develop a certain virtuous character. |
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| The Decalogue is summed up in the two great commands—what are they? |
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1. Love and only have God
2. Love Neighbor
*The second great command is further summarized by the greek term agape. |
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| Agape is love as benevolence and beneficence |
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| Agapeic love as benevolence and beneficence can be broken down into three more specific dimensions: the three dimensions are? |
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1. Kenosis or self-emptying
2. Disinterested regard- equality, commitment, stability
3. Self-Sacrifice, Potential/ actual |
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The unconventional nature of agape, which has led to two historical
consequences/strategies for how Christians are to “be in” the world. |
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1. Monasticism- rule of St. Benedict 5th/6th century
2. Anabaptism- Late Protestant Reformation 16th cent, Quakerism, Mennonites
one is to reach out, one is to be secluded from the world. |
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| *Is agape a “supernatural” obligation? |
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| No. Why? Has to do with the relationship between sin and conversion. Free will.. |
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| *Is agape a “natural” capacity? |
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| There is a natural moral capacity but not to the level that is agape |
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| Four Christian ethical strategies for “making sense” of the relationship between Christian agape and our natural moral capacities |
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1. agape (grace) elevates our natural moral capacities (Aquinas)
2. agape motivates our natural moral capacities (Kant)
3. agape is similar but distinct from natural moral capacities (Edwards)
4. agape specifies/delineates our natural moral |
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