Augustine on Human Nature
Can you give brief definitions of:
- grace
- concupiscence
- continence
- Original Sin
- Pelagianism
Can you explain:
- Augustine’s idea of the divided will
- Augustine’s teaching on the relationship of caritas and cupiditas
- Reinhold Niebuhr’s teaching on collective sin, power and politics
- the Fall as a symbol of each person’s spiritual journey
Can you give arguments for and against:
- whether the doctrine of Original Sin explains why humans fall to act well
- whether belief in God’s grace makes people less violent
- whether the world and human nature are essentially evil
Death and the Afterlife
Can you give brief definitions of:
- the parousia
- eschatology
- Sheol and Gehenna
- millenarianism
- limited election
Can you explain:
- the significance of the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus
- why Christians disagree about when judgement takes place
- the main teaching of the parable of the Sheep and the Goats
- the beatific vision
Can you give arguments for and against:
- Christian belief in purgatory
- belief in heaven/hell as reward for moral behaviour
- hell as an actual place of torment
- heaven as the transformation and perfection of this world
Knowledge of God
Can you give brief definitions of:
- the census divinitatis
- universal consent argument
- the world as God’s mirror
- regeneration
- fideism
Can you explain:
- knowledge of the natural world as ‘point of contact’ with God
- the principle of accommodation
- the significance of the Fall
- formed and unformed faith
Can you give arguments for and against:
- whether knowing about the existence of God is the same as knowing God
- whether revealed theology is irrational
- whether true knowledge of God is only revealed in Jesus Christ
- the use of the Bible in Christian theology
The Person of Jesus Christ
Can you give brief definitions of:
- authority
- metanoia
- preferential option for the poor
- Son of God
- Christology
Can you explain:
- why Ludwig Wittgenstein was inspired by Jesus as a moral teacher
- Jesus’ teaching on inner purity
- how Jesus challenged the place of the marginalised in society
- why Christians worship Jesus Christ
- the meaning of the term ‘Christ-event’
Can you give arguments for and against:
- presenting Jesus as a political revolutionary
- Jesus as just a teacher of wisdom
- the miracles as proof of Jesus’ divinity
- Christ as the unique means of truth
Christian Moral Principles
Can you give brief definitions of:
- biblicism
- the covenant
- the Magisterium
- agape
- pragmatism
Can you explain:
- the main difference between theonomous and heteronomous Christian ethics
- why Catholic natural law ethics is a theological idea
- why some Christians argue that the Christian community is the most important source of Christian ethics
- the significance of the Sermon on the Mount for Christian ethics
Can you give arguments for and against:
- love (agape) as the only basis for Christian ethical practices
- whether natural law is especially Christian
- whether Bible passages which appear to be contradictory undermine its moral authority
- whether Christian ethics are personal or communal
Christian Moral Actions
Can you give brief definitions of:
- the world come of age
- the Western void
- no rusty swords
- religionless Christianity
- Jesus as a ‘man for others’?
Can you explain:
- what he meant by the ‘terrible alternative’
- why he changed his mind about pacifism
- his teaching about relationship between the state and Church
- the difference between cheap grace and costly grace
Can you give arguments for and against:
- whether Bonhoeffer is right that obedience to the will of God is liberating
- the claim that Christian ethical decisions are always ones of conflict and action
- civil disobedience
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