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2 values of Bible for theology
Revelation across time and space
Guard against subjectivism and other relativisms
2 values of theological heritage for theology
Humility and diversity
Faith - Regular definition
Faith - Complex definition
Regular: Act of engaging in a personal relationship by devoted Christians w/ their God
Complex: Act of Engaging in a Personal relationship by devoted Christians with their God. Including awareness of, intellectual agreement with, and personal commitment to God.
Discipline V.S. Disciplines
Discipline: Any activity I can do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort
Disciplines: Rehearse doing faithful things
2 values of thought forms of culture for theology
Discipleship and evangelism
3 errors ignoring trialogue
Syncretism, traditionalism, biblicism
Compare and contrast I-thou and I-it
Both involve interacting with something
I-thou is with another person
I-it is with a thing
Compare and contrast Cartesian certainty and personal confidence
Personal confidence: starts from belief. Looks for given models and reasons.
Compare and contrast notitia, assensus, and fiducia
Noticia - The belief
Assensus - Affirming a belief
Fiducia - Living in light of the belief
3 sources of theology
Biblical message
Theological heritage
Thought forms of culture
Contrast the modern understanding of facts vs value
Facts are the information while value is the importance
Example he gives: Science can tell you the atomic mass of gold (the facts) but it cannot tell you how much money people are willing to spend on it (value)
Compare and contrast syncretism, traditionalism, and biblicism
Syncretism: cultural tradition as primary source
Traditionalism: Church tradition as primary source
Biblicism: Scripture tradition being only source
Compare and contrast certain, objective, and universal
Certain - indubitable or self-evident
Objective - Excluding all subjective aspects
Universal - absolutely true regardless of context
Trialogue is made up of
Biblical message: Constitution. Primary authority for Theology
Theological heritage/church tradition: Court precedents, secondary source. Looks what the people before us thought
Thought forms of the culture/cultural traditions: Lawyers arguments, third authority. How we understand our world and express our thoughts.
Cooperative
Particular
Intentional
Contrast practices, disciplines, cognitions, and theology
Practices: Behaving faithfully
Disciplines: Rehearsing doing things faithfully
Cognitions: Knowing faithfully
Theology: Faithfully knowing, seeking understanding
Compare and contrast disciplines of engagement and disciplines of abstinence
Disciplines of engagement: Practice doing something good
Disciplines of abstinence: Practice saying no
Briefly explain why disciplines of abstinence are helpful overcoming sins of commission.
Sins of commission is when we do things we shouldn't. Disciplines of abstinence is when we practice saying no so that we can say no later.
Briefly describe personal knowing
The idea that belief is knowledge. Knowledge is built on reasons, confidence, and given models. Knowledge is received from others, logical, and has support/reasons and that questions are a part of knowing and can serve belief.
Compare and contrast correction and confessional
Correction: Is this true? Biblical? Reasonable?
Confessional: An important belief
Briefly describe the idea of a thick or personal term
A term that has a lot of meaning attached (thick)
A term that relates you to somebody else (personal term)
Contrast the two ways Newbigin describes objective
Objective (Personal)
Objective (Modern)
Briefly explain what the postmodern understanding of truth is and why they hold this position
Truth + knowledge as power (boi i just copy paste i confused)
Compare and contrast description, clarification, and correction
Description: What is it we believe? Formulate it in words
Clarification: What do we mean by those words?
Correction: Is this true? Biblical? Reasonable?
Compare and contrast creedal, confessional, and adiaphora
Creedal: Essential belief
Confessional: An important belief
Adiaphora: spiritually neutral belief