4 Sources
These are the four sources of theological reflection, famously coined by John Wesley of the Methodist tradition.
What are scripture, tradition, reason, and experience?
The broadest definition of theology, according to Dr. G
What is thinking about questions raised by and about religions?
The word that describes "how do we know what we know"
The differences in the order of creation between Genesis 1:-2:4 and Genesis 2:4-3
first account humans are created last
second account Adam is created, then plants, then animals, then woman
What Augustine thinks separates human beings from animals
the capacity to ask questions, reason, the soul
A source that uses history, literature, linguistics, the social sciences, philosophy, and logic to make theological claims.
What is reason?
A linguistic approach that uses the Greek roots of the word to define theology.
What is theo-logia, or the study of God
The simplest definition of hermeneutics
What is "different methods of interpretation"?
The name of the first human that is also a play on this Hebrew word for "soil"
What is Adam and "adamah"
Why Shawn Copeland claims that slavery is blasphemy
Because all human beings are made in the image of God, enslaving Black people places some human beings over others
How Gustavo Gutierrez uses the four sources
scripture: exodus, Gospels
tradition: preferential option for the poor
reason: philosophy, European education
experience: struggles with illness as a child, witnessing poverty in Peru
11th century Saint Anselm coined this popular definition of theology
What is faith seeking understanding
Analyze Genesis by looking at translations, historical details, and doublets to put the text into the context of the time it was written
What is the historical-critical method
The historical context of the term "imago Dei" from Genesis 1:26-28
image of God, ALL humans made in the image and likeness, democratizes the Ancient Eastern understanding that only the king bears the stamp of God
This theologian's text uses tradition by citing saint Francis of Assisi, Eastern Orthodox Bishop Patriarch Bartholemew, and Roman Catholic Popes to make claims about why Christians should respond to climate change.
What is Pope Francis's Laudato Si'?
Examples from each of the sources that Michelle Navarette uses to read the Bible as a Mujerista Evangelica
scripture--focus on the word, gospels
tradition--madres, abuelas, folk practices and traditions
experience--el cotodiano, culture impacts everyone's reading of the Bible
Elizabeth Johnson's catchy phrase to define theology
What is Divine mystery mediated through history?
The main elements of a literary biblical hermeneutic
What are Literary forms, themes, what is taught vs what is presumed?
Anzaldua's reversed interpretation of Eve eating the fruit
Who says Aztec mythology and second Gensis account demonize women for wanting consciousness?
Why George Tinker thinks its important to translate repetence, "metanoia", in the plural
because it includes all of us, even birds, animals, rocks, trees, water
Give an example of how each source of theological reflection is used by an author not yet mentioned
(many correct answers)
C.S. Song's exact definition of theology (plus page number)
What is "Theology..above all things, is God telling stories through countless people in every land through the ages because God loves stories." p. 4
ANALYZE THAT TEXT using all four biblical hermeneutics we discussed in class!
literal, literary, historical-critical, experiential
How each of the first three biblical hermeneutics answers the question: why are there discrepencies in the Genesis text?
literal: inspired word doesn't have discrepencies, God's will, an invitation to go deeper
literary: there are different author's trying to teach a truth that is incomprehensible through myth
historical-critical: they were written by different people at different time periods, edited together later
What this theologian claims is imported into Islam from Christianity
Riffat Hassan, the idea that Eve was created from Adam's rib: in the Quran humans are made at the same time, ony hadith mention this