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The death of God
For Seattle University's theology class on Resurrecting the Death of God
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
04/24/2015

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How many books are in the Bible? How many in the Old Testament?
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66 total, 39 in Old Testament
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What are the 3 categories of the Old Testament?
Definition
Torah, Prophets and Writings
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What is the Torah?
Definition
1st category of the Hebrew Bible. Torah is law or teachings. It is comprised of 5 books.
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What are the 5 books of the Torah
Definition
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
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Where does the word Torah come from?
Definition
Greek word Pentateuch meaning 5 books
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What is the book of Psalms
Definition
Book in the writing category of the old testament. It is devotional poetry written for Jews to sing in the rebuilt temple of 536 BCE
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What makes the Christian Old Testament different from the Hebrew Bible?
Definition
The Christians reordered it. They placed the Porhets last (was 2nd in Hebrew Bible) because they believed the Prophets were speaking of Jesus Christ
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Prophets are ____ not ______
Definition
Forthtelling not foretelling. They make news public, they do not predict the future
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How did the Old Testamnent come to be
Definition
Oral stories, writing, redaction, canonizing, translation & transmission
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What are the 4 categories of the New Testament?
Definition
Gospels, Letters, Acts (history) and Revelation
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What does Messiah mean?
Definition
Christ or Annointed one
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What is a synagogue?
Definition
Where Jews gathered when their temple was destroyed
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What is the purpose of the gospels
Definition
to convert people to Christianity and instruct the converted
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What is apocalypture
Definition
Literature unveiling the kingdom of God
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How did the New Testament come into being?
Definition
Oral stories, writing, Canonization
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When was the New Testament Canonized
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367 CE
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What were the 4 criteria for canonization of the New Testament
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1) Authorship 2) Earliest Text 3) Harmony 4) Catholocity (how widely read)
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Why was divine inspiration not one of the criteria for canonization?
Definition
Because they did not want to limit God
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What were the 3 reasons for canonization?
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1) To create a standard 2) To determine which scripture was suitable for worship 3) Persecution
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What are the 3 worlds of the Bible?
Definition
Literary, Historical and Contemporary
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What is a thesis
Definition
A debatable claim
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What is Friedman's thesis
Definition
That God disappears in the Bible
Term
Anthropomorphic
Definition
in the shape of man
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When did Rabbinical Judaism start
Definition
After the second Jewish temple was destroyed in 70 AD
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When was Biblical Judaism around?
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Up till 70 AD when the second temple was destroyed
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What is a Theologian
Definition
Someone who uses reason to explore scripture and does a literary analysis
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How does Rabbinical Judaism confirm that God is dead according to Friedman>
Definition
The Torah is now in the hands of man and not God
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What are the two explanations Friedman gives for the disappearance of God?
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God is a personification of the force of nature or God is the parent and has stepped back from his children
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Who was Philo?
Definition
A Classical Theist. Said God is everywhere, but nowhere. God is always harmony and bliss.
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Who was Anselm?
Definition
A classical Theist. Argued God is apathetic and immutable. Said God does not change, our perception of God changes.
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Aseity
Definition
Gods existence stems from his own creation. Our being is contingent, derived from another source
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Who gave the trinitarian understanding of God?
Definition
Tertulian
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Who said Jesus is neither divine, not human, but a combination of silver and gold, but neither
Definition
Tertulian
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Define a Creed
Definition
A collective profession of faith on the part of the church
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According to classical Theism, God has these four qualities
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1) Unaffected by the world
2) Unconstrained, God is everywhere and simultaneously nowhere
3) Unchanging. God is outside of time and could not be blissful if he could suffer
4) Perfect - God would not be perfect if he could change
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Where do thinkers get the idea that God is changeless?
Definition
Aristotle and Plato. The Greeks believed that the earth is at the center of the universe and that God is the primary mover of the 7 heavens and is located outside of them.
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Define Sacramentarian. Who were sacramentarians?
Definition
Sacramentarians denied that God was really present in the Sacrament. They are everyone exccept Lutherans, Protestants and Catholics.
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Who was the first to suggest the divine part of Christ died?
Definition
Martin Luther
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Hegel believes suffering and death are ____ to God, not ____
Definition
Hegel believes suffering and death are essential to God, not incidental.
Term
Name the four sectors of Christianity
Definition
1) Roman Catholic
2) Orthodox
3) Mainline Protestantism
4) Non-traditional
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What do non traditional Christians typically have>?
Definition
Additional Authoritative books
Term
Define Sanctification
Definition
A process by which a person becomes holy
Term
What are Thomasius' relative attributes of God. Why are they relative?
Definition
Relative attributes: Omnipotent, Omnipresence, Omniscience. They are relative because they arise in the world God created
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What are God's eternal attributes
Definition
Love, holiness, truth
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Hegels 3 stages
Definition
1)Being in itself
2) Being for itself
3) Being in and for itself
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What is being in itself
Definition
Pure potentiality or immediacy, conciousness
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What is being for itself
Definition
Pour soi, God expressed himself through creation of the universe, objectifies ideas in Gods mind
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What are the two negations:
Definition
1) Becoming the son brings himself self-awareness
2)Negatiion of the negation is cruxifiction
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According to Hegel why does Jesus die?
Definition
To disclose a new consciousness of living for others
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When was the old testament canonized
Definition
100 AD
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Who compared Jesus' divinity to 2 boards glued together?
Definition
Calvinists
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What do creeds show>
Definition
The influence of Classical Theism on orthodox Christianity
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Did Tertulian believe the divine nature in Christ died?
Definition
No. He believes only human nature dies. "Conjoined but not to be confounded" Interlocking gears
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What is the literary world of the bible?
Definition
The ways in which the language of the Bible creates unique worlds of meaning
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What is the contempoary world of the Bible
Definition
The impact of the Bible on people and situations today
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What is the historical world of the Bible
Definition
The history of the writing of the Bible, the history of the period in which the Bible was written and the history of the translation and interpretation of the Bible
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What is the textual history of the Bible?
Definition
The copying of the Bible in it's original languages - Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek
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____ said, "I shall hide my face from them. I shall see what their end will be" to_____
Definition
God to Moses
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