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Question and Bulletpoints
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Drawing on St. Athanasius, St. Basil, and lecture, explain some of the crucial claims Christians make in the doctrine of creation. This should include a discussion of the cosmos in general and mankind in particular | Mere Christianity- compounding Christian ideas that all branches agree upon -Creation: Humans (mankind) are three things: Creators- ruled rulers; freedom within constraints Relators- humans made for shared union with God; union with others Celebrators- soul and community, God creates and when he is done he looks and sees it is good |
| Explain St. Basil’s account of the nature, source, and scope of sin/evil | |
| Explain St. Athanasius’s two arguments (i.e. his answer to the two divine dilemmas) of why the Word became flesh. Your explanation should make clear why each dilemma seems like a dilemma, and how Jesus’s incarnation, life, and so on is a fitting solution to the aforementioned dilemmas. | |
| Explain the theological virtue of hope. What is it and why does it make good sense as a response to the reality of our situation? Make sure to compare and contrast hope with despair and presumption | |
| Explain what Dallas Willard means by “the gospels of sin management.” Explain the gospel of sin management on the right and the gospel of sin management on the left. What, according to Willard, is the true gospel? Make sure to explain differences in key ideas, such as human need, salvation, eternal life, faith, and, of course, the Kingdom of God | |
| Compare and contrast the four interpretations of the Beatitudes (prescriptive, in spite of, anti-Pharisaical, and spectrum) and explain Ten Elshof’s critique of the prescriptive and in-spite-of interpretations. Which one do you find most persuasive and why? Explain what Willard takes the main point of Jesus’s Beatitudes to be. |