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DCT Topics Year 1, Purgatory, Salvation through God's grace not human…

- - - - Divided will: desires/concupiscence control the will
      - Evil will precede the evil act
      - Satan plants envy into Adam and Eve's minds
    - - Passed on through sexual intercourse
      - Death of friendship and mortality
  - - - The Fall did not cause universal guilt
      - Humans have enough free will to overcome personal sin
    - - Salvation through abstinence
      - Higher soul desires God
      - Lower soul craves bodily delights
    - - Christ is an enlightened being: brings knowledge for salvation
      - Soul not able to fully control the body
      - Soul able to ascend through levels to the One (God)
- - - - 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?
    - - Election
        
        Limited
        
        Predestination
        
        Unlimited
        
        Heaven
        
        Symbol of personal or inner peace? Life after death or transformation of this world?
        
        State of joy, seeing God 'face to face' everlasting bliss
        
        Dante's vision of Paradise and the Beatific Vision
        
        Catholic teaching: community of immortal souls who reign with Christ
        
        Hell
        
        State of eternal separation (punishment for mortal sins)
        
        Symbol of alienation and guilty conscience
        
        Dante's vision of physical torment by Lucifer
        
        Spiritual state of separation (not eternal)
    - - God will create a new world for the good
      - God has forgiven humanity's sins
- - - - 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 him
        
        Calvin: faith is firm and certain knowledge in Christ, 'sealed by the Holy Spirit'
        
        The Bible is God's revealed Word
    - - All human cultures have an innate sense of the divine (sensis divinatatis)
        
        Design, purpose, order, beauty and natural law 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 existence of God's existence
        
        Reason and faith relationship. Natural and revealed theology relationship.
        
        The Bible is the collection of human experiences of God
        
        The Bible, prophets, the Church are also witnesses to God's revelation. The Bible is the 'soul of the Church'
- - - - Jesus' moral teaching - fulfilment of the law
        
        Motive, forgiveness and repentance
        
        Personal responsibility, inner purity
        
        Is Jesus just a teacher of wisdom?
  - - - Liberator of those on the 'underside of history'
        
        Liberation of the marginalised
        
        Liberation of the poor
        
        Is Jesus more than a liberator?
  - - - Christianity from above, Jesus' divinity from below, Jesus' effect on people
        
        Jesus' knowledge of God
        
        Miracles and resurrection
        
        Is Jesus unique?
- - - - Roman Catholic sources - Natural Law, reason, Magisterium, Bible, Conscience
        
        Protestant sources - Bible, reason, Conscience, Church tradition, Christian community
        
        Problems - Which sources are legitimate? 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?
    - - Biblicism - the Bible is the revealed Word of God and is the only source of authority for Christian ethics
        
        Key Bible Passages - Ten Commandments, Sermon on the Mount
        
        Problem - How are contradictory Bible passages to be interpreted?
- - - - Prayer, conscience, example of Christ, life in the Christian community
        
        Cost of Discipleship: ethics as action, costly grace vs. cheap grace, sacrifice, suffering, 'crisis', solidarity against injustice
    - - Religionless Christianity needed to fil the Western void
        
        No Christian can act morally in isolation: Church communities provide moral and spiritual tools to live in the wider society
    - - Obedience to God's will can only be known in the moment of action
        
        Civil Disobedience: the state must behave according to God's will. Church and state must be independent - the Church is the conscience of society