Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

KAG 6 Developments - Coggle Diagram

- - - - soul able to ascend through levels to the One (God)
      - Christ is an enlightened being: brings knowledge for salvation
      - soul not able to fully control the body
    - - humans have enough free will to overcome personal sin
      - the fall did not cause universal guilt
    - - lower soul craves bodily delights
      - highter soul desires God
      - salvation through the abstinence
  - - - Satan plants envy into Adam and Eves minds
      - divided will: desires/concupiscence control the will
      - evil will preceded the evil act
    - - death of friendship and mortality
        
        salvation through God's grace not human will
      - passed on through sexual intercourse
        
        salvation through God's grace not human will
  - - - Augustine’s interpretation of Genesis 3 (the Fall) including:
        
        the state of perfection before the Fall and Adam and Eve’s relationship as friends
        
        lust and selfish desires after the Fall
    - - Augustine’s teaching that Original Sin is passed on through sexual intercourse and is the cause of:
        
        Human selfishness and lack of free will
        
        lack of stability and corruption in all human societies
    - - Augustine’s teaching that only God’s grace, his generous love, can overcome sin and the rebellious will to achieve the greatest good (summum bonum
- - - - the reasons for this development, for example migration
    - - responses of Christian communities to inter-faith dialogue
        
        how Christian communities have responded to the challenge of encounters with other faiths, for example:
        
        Catholic Church: Redemptoris Missio 55–57
        
        Church of England: Sharing the Gospel of Salvation
      - the scriptural reasoning movement
        
        how the mutual study and interpretation of different religions’ sacred literature can help understanding of different and conflicting religious truth claims
- - - - transvaluation a complete re-evaluation of Christianity and society is needed
      - beyond God the father: only women can transform patriarchy and find the deep spiritual forces of nature
    - - abuse of women Christianity abuses women (e.g. Virgin Mary), Jesus' cross is a symbol of torture and sexual dominance. As God is male it justifies male dominance of women
      - unholy trinity rape (power and lack of community); genocide/gynocide (degradation of women); war (Church support of war and other forms of killing
      - Be-ing only women truly know about 'background' existence and its spiritual connection with nature
      - new language new language frees women from patriarchy, e.g. spinster, hag, crone, snool
  - - - GoddessChristianity has retained the experience of the female aspect of God
      - wisdom God's wisdom is female, which is the creative, knowable aspect of God
    - - yes Jesus rejects the male warrior messiah; he gave dignity to the marginalised; the Holy Spirit continues its work in healing relationships
      - no Jesus is male; the chruch is controlled by men; only a male can be a priest
      - new communities: the early Christian communities were egalitarian and based on female/male friendship
      - incarnation and spirit Jesus is the incarnation of God's wisdom; the spirit continues to develop Jesus' teaching
  - - - the teaching of Rosemary Ruether and Mary Daly on gender and its implications fro the Christian idea of God
        
        Ruether's discussion of the maleness of Christ and its implications for salvation including:
        
        Jesus' challenge to the male warrior-messiah expectation
        
        God as the female wisdom principle
        
        Jesus as the incarnation of wisdom
        
        Daly's claim that 'if God is male then the male is God' and its implications for Christianity including:
        
        Christianity's 'unholy trinity' of rape genocide and war
        
        spirituality experiences through nature
- - - - different interpretations of heaven, hell and purgatory, including:
        
        heaven, hell and purgatory are actual places where a person may go after death and experience physical and emotional happiness, punishment or purification
        
        heaven, hell and purgatory are not places but spiritual states that a person experiences as part of their spiritual journey after death
        
        heaven, hell and purgatory are symbols of a person’s spiritual and moral life on Earth and not places or states after death
    - - different Christian views of who will be saved, including:
        
        limited election (that only a few Christians will be saved)
        
        unlimited election (that all people are called to salvation but not all are saved)
        
        unlimited election (that all people are called to salvation but not all are saved)
  - - - election
        
        limited
        
        unlimited
        
        predestination
        
        hell
        
        symbol of alienation and guilty conscience
        
        state of eternal separation (punishment for mortal sins)
        
        spiritual state of separation
        
        Dante's vision of physical torment by Lucifer
        
        heaven
        
        symbol of personal or inner peace? Life and death or transformation of this world?
        
        state of joy, seeing God 'face to face', everlasting bliss
        
        Dante's version of Paradise and the Beatific Vision
        
        Catholic teaching: community of immortal sould who reign with Christ
        
        purgatory
        
        foretaste of heaven/hell now or after death
        
        Protestant teaching: no purgatory, but could be an intermediate state after death
        
        Dante's vision of the journey of the soul overcoming temptations
        
        Catholic teaching: purification of the soul
    - - is Matthew 25 about last judgement or personal judgement of one's moral life now?
      - is judgement personal or collective, at death or at the end of time?
    - - God has forgiven humanity's sins
      - God will create a new world for the good
- - - - As an innate human sense of the divine
        
        as all humans are made in God’s image they have an inbuilt capacity and desire to know God, including:
        
        human intellectual ability to reflect on and recognise God’s existence
        
        human openness to beauty and goodness as aspects of God
      - as seen in the order of creation
        
        what can be known of God can be seen in the apparent deisgn and purpose of nature
    - - through faith and God's grace
        
        as humans are sinful and have finite minds, natural knowledge is not sufficient to gain full knowledge of God; knowledge of God is possible through:
        
        faith
        
        grace as God's gift of knowledge of himself through the holy spirit
      - revealed knowledge of God in Jesus Christ
        
        full and perfect knowledge of God is revealed in the persin of Jesus Christ and throught:
        
        the life of the Church
        
        the Bible
  - - - God can be known through the human intellect because he is the creator of the world
        
        all human cultures have an innate sense of the divine (sensus divinitatis)
        
        design, purpose, order, beauty and natural law all provide points of contact with God
        
        rational arguments (ontological/cosmological etc.) for God's existence indicate God can be known through human reason
        
        Aquinas' 'formed' faith is the rational assent and willingness to believe in the evidence of God's existence
        
        the Bible is the collection of human experiences of God
        
        1 more item...
        
        reason and faith relationship
        natural and revealed theology relationship
      - God can be known through the human revelation because he is the redeemer of the world
        
        because of Original Sin, humans cannot know God personally
        
        God reveals himself through the person of Jesus Christ (as mediator)
        
        God's grace and redemption (regeneration) enables humans to have true knowledge/relationship with God
        
        Calvin: faith is firm and certain knowledge in Christ, sealed by the Holy Spirit
        
        the bible is God's revealed word
- - - - the Bible as the only authority for Christian ethical practices
        
        as the Bible reveals God’s will, then only biblical ethical commands must be followed
      - Bible, Church and reason as the sources of Christian ethical practices
        
        hristian ethics must be a combination of biblical teaching, Church teaching and human reason
      - love (agape) as the only Christian ethical principle which governs Christian practices
        
        Jesus’ only command was to love and that human reason must decide how best to apply this
  - - - Biblicism: the Bible is the revealed word of God and is the only source of authority for Christian ethics
        
        key Bible passages: then commandment and the sermon on the mount
        
        problem: how are contradictory Bible passages supposed to be inerpreted?
    - - Roman Catholic sources: natural law, Magisterium, Bible, conscience
        
        Protestant sources: Bible, reason, conscience, Church tradition, Christian community
        
        problems: which sources are legitimate? and which sources have greater authority?
    - - Roman Catholic: Hans Kung's global ethic: responsibility for personal judgements
        
        Protestant: Joseph Fletcher's four working principles: situations judged according to agape
        
        problems: could undermine the Magisterium of the Church. is agape distinctively Christian?
- - - - the view that only Christianity fully offers the means of salvation
    - - the view that although Christianity is the normative means of salvation, ‘anonymous’ Christians may also receive salvation
    - - the view that there are many ways to salvation, of which Christianity is one path
  - - - restrictive access exclusivism (RAE)
      - universal access exclusivism (UAE)
    - - structural inclusivism (SI)
      - restrictive inclusivism (RI)
    - - unitary theological pluralism (UTP)
      - pluriform theological pluralism (PTP)
      - ethical theological pluralism (RTP)
- - - - Christian teaching on the roles of men and women in the family and society
    - - the ways in which Christians have adapted and challenged changing attitudes to family and gender, including issues of:
        
        motherhood/parenthood
        
        different types of family
  - - - liberal protestant parenthood as choice; acceptance of different kinds of non-traditional family; new covenant ideal
      - conservative protestant equal but different; family as domestic haven; suspicion of feminism and liberalism
      - catholic feminism radical gender equality among first Christians; feminist theology support for non-traditional families; critique of Mulieris Dignitatem
      - roman catholic Mulieris Dignitatem, vocation of woman as mother; monogamous heterosexual family; suspicion of existential view of gender
    - - feminism first wave (equality rights), second wave (patriarchy)
        
        Betty Friedan women must break free from the motherhood 'mystique'
        
        women in society armed forces; judges; directors of companies; glass ceiling
        
        Simone de Beauvoir predefined (essentialist) gender roles are false-consciousness; no eternal feminine
      - Michel Foucault gender controlled by institutions; ars erotica
- - - - duty to God and duty to the State
        
        Bonhoeffer’s teaching on the relationship of Church and State including:
        
        • obedience, leadership and doing God’s will
        
        • justification of civil disobedience
      - Church as community and source of spiritual discipline
        
        Bonhoeffer’s role in the Confessing Church and his own religious community at Finkenwalde
      - the cost of discipleship
        
        Bonhoeffer’s teaching on ethics as action, including:
        
        ‘costly grace’
        
        sacrifice and suffering
        
        solidarity
- - - - Jesus Christ's authority as:
        
        The Son of God
        
        Jesus' divinity expressed in his:
        
        miracles
        
        resurrection
        
        with reference to Mark 6:47-52 and John 9:1-41
        
        knowledge of God
        
        a teacher of wisdom
        
        Jesus' moral teaching on:
        
        repentance and forgiveness
        
        inner purity and moral motivation
        
        with reference to Matthew 5:17-48 and Luke 15:11-32
        
        a liberator
        
        Jesus' role as liberator or the marginalised and the poor, as expressed in his:
        
        challenge to political authority
        
        challenge to religious authority
        
        with reference to Mark 5:24-34 and Luke 10:25-37
    - - whether or not Jesus was only a teacher of wisdom
      - whether or not Jesus was more than a political liberator
      - whether or not Jesus’ relationship with God was very special or truly unique
      - whether or not Jesus thought he was divine
    - - Jesus' affirmation of living life well
        
        Jesus' moral teaching - fulfilment of the law
        
        motive, forgiveness and repentance
        
        is Jesus just a teacher of wisdom?
        
        personal responsibility, inner purity
    - - Jesus' political challenge
        
        liberator of those on the 'underside of history'
        
        liberation of the marginalised
        
        liberation of the poor
        
        is Jesus more than a liberator?
    - - Jesus' relationship with God
        
        Christianity from above, Jesus' divinity from below, Jesus' effect on people
        
        miracles and resurrection
        
        is Jesus unique?
        
        Jesus' knowledge of God