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THEO ORAL EXAM (THESIS #2 (Permanence in spirituality involves maturity…
THEO ORAL EXAM
THESIS #2
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The practice of faith (orthopraxis): Balanced faith needs the balance of both orthodoxy and orthopraxis
There are multiple ways of viewing religion, through different lenses: Just because you have a different religion doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re inherently divided; there are similarities
There is unity in diversity: Despite the fact that we are not all the same (we can believe in different things), we are unified together through:
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The mission of the Kingdom of God, involves the church: The Kingdom of God as Gift yet Task
THESIS #1
Spirituality and Growth: the relationship between you and your irreducible energizing source. Overtime you will mature, and hopefully achieve the course objectives.
Faith and Spirituality
Module 1 - Terrency Tilley; Irreducible energizing source, Spirituality: Something essential (possibly the most essential part) of being human; how we make sense of ourselves in relation to being transcendental
The Church
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This is a community established many centuries past, and we share in the faith of those who have come before, those who remain now, and those who are to come, as one holy people
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Orthopraxis and Orthodoxy: While many can see these two elements as opposite ends of a spectrum, in the eyes of the Church, there is a mutual and intrinsic relationship between theory and praxis, if a person’s practice is not correct, then his faith is not truly orthodox
Personal Narrative - Scared Narrative: Recognize that our personal narrative fits into the shared narrative of faith and eventually becomes sacred narrative
THESIS #3
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Historical Conditioning: Things that we learn over the years, how people have grown up, show that people and their faith are a product of their history. Context is everything
Spiritual Commitment: Possible relations to the Prophetic Commitment of Moses ( specifically how you need to discover yourself and mature before you are able to “prophetically commit”)
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THESIS #4
Sacred Narrative: The Bible was written by persons from the people of God, for the people of God, about the experience of the people of God
Worlds of the text for greater understanding:Seeing the context in more detail allows us to have a full understanding of the purpose of the text
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Biblical Inspiration: Relates to the human persons who wrote the Bible; they have a mission to be prophetic and spread the word of God
THESIS #6
Shalom
Not necessarily peace, but more of the absence of war
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Faith as Gift yet Task
Being a gift of God, it is grace. Humans must also act upon it.
Parrhesia - boldness, impulse to evangelize and leave a mark in the world
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Kingdom of God
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Future/Final Phase: Where the world ends, and we are liberated by God as Abba into a (better) world of peace, love, bliss, and everything good.
THESIS #5
Moses & Kenosis
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Moses whose mission was to fulfill the kingdom of God, was just a human being
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Kenosis: self-emptying.
Moses offered his life not just for his own personal satisfaction, but he continued his prophetic commitment despite losing the reward because the reward was never the goal—the vision—of commitment
True commitment lies not in what the commitment can provide for a person, but what one person can provide towards his or her own commitment.
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