I believe in a
thing called love
thing called love
When Bauerschmidt calls human love this, he means that human love responds to an already existing goodness.
What is reactive?
Jesus's practice of friendship does not always conform to this Greek philosopher's theory of friendship.
Who is Aristotle?
This part of the Christian Bible provides insight into God's dealings with humans throughout history, including especially God's ways of justice and mercy.
What is the Old Testament?
Jesus's ministry, which was heard by those in power as a challenge to the status quo, led to him being put to death according to this form of execution.
What is crucifixion?
Because God is not the sort of thing that can be studied via direct observation, theologians have to focus their study on this.
What is God's revelation?
When Bauerschmidt calls God's love this, he means that God's love produces goodness.
What is active?
Bauerschmidt says that rejecting the possibility of this for even one's enemies may be the best possible reason to reject the Christian faith.
What is forgiveness?
Scripture and this together comprise a single deposit of God's revelation.
What is tradition?
Jesus's teachings and miracles reveal what God intends for creation, otherwise known as this.
What is the kingdom of God?
An argument where the conclusion does not necessarily follow but is rendered likely because several reasons all point to it is called this.
What is a "converging probabilities" argument?
Bauerschmidt says love involves two "d-words" when it comes to goodness: desire and this.
What is delight?
While the Jesus movement began as a Jewish-only movement, the early Christian church came to include also these people.
Who are the Gentiles?
The idea that God makes use of human powers and faculties in revealing Godself through the books of the Bible is called this.
What is inspiration?
Judging from the parable of the prodigal son, God's response to sin is best described as this.
What is sorrow?
Herbert McCabe argues that, while religious believers will not be able to provide this sort of argument for their beliefs, neither will it be possible for an argument to disprove a religious belief.
What is a knockdown argument?
When the Christian shows their neighbor love of this sort, the Christian is loving the neighbor in the same way that God loves them.
What is gratuitous?
The truest form of friendship according to the Nicomachean Ethics is not friendship based in utility or pleasure but rather, friendship based in this.
What is excellence of character?
This author of the Bible is responsible for the overall content and coherence of the Bible as a whole.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Liberation theology emerges out of Latin America in the 1960s as an effort to speak of God from the situation of this.
What is unjust poverty?
The idea that theology involves a search for a final and all-encompassing meaning of life is called this.
What is sapiential task?
Richard of St. Victor uses this word to express the idea that God's love is interpersonal even within God's own self, shared among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
What is caritas?
This Latin word gives us the idea that religious rituals have to do with binding people together in practices of reconciliation and love of enemies.
Dei verbum argues that the interpreter of the Bible must consider this when reading a book of the Bible, so that the interpreter can better understand what the author meant to convey and how they conveyed it. Examples include myth, poetry, and legal code.
What is literary genre?
Often resulting in the setting aside of worldly goods, this form of poverty is an openness and availability to the will of God.
What is spiritual poverty?
The Second Vatican Council can be described with these two non-English words: aggiornamento, meaning "bringing up to date," and this, meaning "going back to the sources."
What is ressourcement?