PHI 413 Diller Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND 2024 VERIFIED
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PHI 413 Diller Exam 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND 2024 VERIFIED
Why does McGrath think theology is so important? - √√It is intellectually stimulating, rich in resources for a life of faith and ministry of the church; capacity to excite, inspire and illuminate human intellect
What does McGrath s...
PHI 413 Diller Exam 1 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS AND 2024 VERIFIED
Why does McGrath think theology is so important? - √√It is intellectually stimulating, rich in resources for a life of faith and ministry of the church; capacity to excite, inspire and illuminate human intellect
What does McGrath say about the importance of Theology for Apologetics? - √√Theology helps to set apologetics in context, as well as, it allows us to appreciate the richness of the gospel and identify what the best point of contact might be for the gospel in relation to a given audience
Ethical Monotheism - √√There is an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-
good creator who requires right actions from creation
(Christianity is distinct from mere ethical monotheism. God desires not simply that we conform to an abstract moral code; he desires to bring his creation into fullness through a communion with him. The atonement is therefore not merely an abstract legal
transaction, but the healing and fulfilling of our natures through union in Christ.)
Scientific Naturalism - √√The physical cosmos studied by science is all there is
Postmodernism - √√"There is no such thing as objective reality, truth, value, reason and meaning to life"
Know also that, although Moreland takes an extreme definition of postmodernism (equating it with relativism), postmodernism comes in more modest forms which offer a needed critique of modernism. What reasons are there for thinking that the tri-unity of God is an essential Christian doctrine? And what does it tell us about the nature of God? - √√- establishes the identity of God
- explains creation (A single God cannot love because true love involves loving another)
- salvation only makes sense in light of a triune God -- He created humans in his image and we perverted that love and turned it toward ourselves
What is the significance of the Fall for our knowledge of God? - √√There is some general revelation of God to all people mediated through creation, but that this knowledge is darkened by sin.
"20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—
his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened." - Romans 1:20-21
Epistemic Dependence - √√-associated with the necessity of our reliance on things that are outside of our control for having knowledge (this includes the object of knowledge, our environment and even much of our cognitive capacities)
- We are epistemically dependent on God to give/restore in us the
eyes to see and ears to hear
-The Holy Spirit offers divine illumination, by giving us the mind of
Christ
What does John 17:3 say eternal life is? - √√"That they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent"
What are we created/headed for according to John 17:21? - √√That we may become one in unity Be able to give three strong reasons why Michael Reeves thinks it is so important that God is revealed to be triune - √√- establishes the nature and character (identity) of God
- explains creation and salvation
-tri-unity of God is essential Christian doctrine bc it establishes the identity of God
What is the historical orthodox formulation of the doctrine of the incarnation? - √√-Nicaea 325 (homoousios- begotten not made, of one being with the Father) : -Arianism
-Alexandria 362 - the holy spirit is not a creature and is not separate from the essence of Christ
-Constantinople 381 (fully God, fully human): -Apollinarianism- human body with a divine mind
-Ephesus 431 (hypostatic union- 2 united but not confused in 1 person): Nestorianism
-Chalcedon 451 (without confusion or disjunction): Monophysitism- JC has only one nature - divine -Great Schism in 1054 & Reformation 16th Century: into Protestantism, Roman -Catholicism & Orthodoxy -Tertulian: three persons, one substance (160-220)
Arianism - √√Jesus Christ is a created being (there was a time when the Son was not)
Apollinarianism - √√Jesus Christ has a human body with a divine mind
Nestorianism - √√Jesus Christ is two united persons with disunited
natures
Monophysitism - √√Jesus Christ has only one nature: Divine
How can we respond to the objection that Christ cannot be both human and divine because there are certain divine properties
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