Humans
The subdiscipline of theology concerned with the meaning and purpose of human existence in light of divine revelation is called this.
What is theological anthropology?
The Council of Nicaea uses this hyphenated phrase to articulate its position that whatever it is for the Father to be God is true of the Son as well.
What is one-in-being?
The particular shape a work of literature takes—its genre, the literary conventions it uses, the cultural context it draws upon, etc.—Ratzinger calls this.
What is form?
The main problem of sin, according to Athanasius, is that God's creatures are passing out of existence; in other words, the main problem of sin is this.
What is mortality / death?
Reflecting on the meaning of the crucifixion for the modern United States, Copeland argues that Jesus must be understood as a modern victim of this.
What is lynching?
In Jeopardy, you're supposed to answer in the form of this—which might call to mind the opening line of Karl Rahner's dissertation: Man fragt.
What is a question?
"One person existing in two natures"—this is the christological settlement determined at the council held in this city in Asia Minor.
What is Chalcedon?
The meaning of a work of literature—the message its author wishes to express—Ratzinger calls this.
What is content?
Name this:
Q: Why is there something rather than nothing?
A: God
What is creation?
The Eucharist is a gift, which is a synonym for the answer to this clue: the Eucharist makes Christ this in the world.
What is present?
Slavery is a theological problem because practices of enslavement deny that the enslaved person is created according to this.
What is imago Dei?
The christological model arguing that the divine Word is conjoined to the human Jesus and "indwells" him—what we called "Incredible Hulk" christology—is called this.
What is Logos–anthropos?
Elizabeth Johnson uses this preposition to describe the disciples' experience of God in the historical presence of Jesus.
What is with?
Scientific inquiry leads from one question to the next, until you eventually arrive at the question of why anything exists at all. McCabe call that final question this.
What is the God question?
When Elizabeth Johnson says God is "three," she doesn't mean 1+1+1=God. Instead, she means to deny that God is this.
What is solitary?
Karl Rahner uses this antiquated word to describe the destination of human questioning.
What is Whither?
The christological model arguing that Jesus's human mind is replaced by the divine Word—or "zombie christology"—is called this.
What is Logos–sarx?
What is transformation?
The fact that all uses of this word are relative, not absolute, leads McCabe to conclude that we can have no real concept of this.
What is nothing?
The English meaning of the Greek word eucharistein is this, which Copeland says Christians can show by standing in solidarity with those who suffer and are oppressed.
What is thanksgiving / gratitude?
Karl Rahner uses this hyphenated phrase to name the idea that humans are always reaching beyond themselves to an ever-deeper grasp of truth and reality.
What is self-transcendence?
You could translate communicatio idiomatum as "communication of idioms," but a better translation would be this phrase.
What is exchange of properties?
The resurrection was experienced by the disciples as an event completely outside of their ordinary frame of reference, an event they did not expect and did not feel they deserved—in a word, the resurrection was an experience of this.
What is gratuity?
God does not want humans to die, but humans have chosen death over life—what Athanasius calls the divine this.
The resurrected Jesus is not like a seed being planted or a sleeper awaking or a caterpillar turning into a butterfly—no, the resurrected Jesus is more like this (also part of the name of a horror movie from 1968).
What is the living dead?