Class
3 Chapter 2
Date: 9-19-02
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For
next week:
Chapter
3 Creator and Creatures
IDEAS
(Note: Although these questions arise from
specific sections of the chapter, please allow
the whole chapter to possibly supplement your
answers.)
Discuss
the implications of God's Fatherly care being
a gift.
"Although
Eden's gates are closed, God's "very good"
still echoes, though often faintly." Discuss
the main themes to which this alludes and reflect
on the previous chapters in light of it.
To
what fields of human effort do you think KOLB
addresses the discussion on "Good Order"?
Why?
What
symbolism does KOLB find in "dust" and
"breath"? How does this relate to the
framework discussed in chapter one and the "Image
of God" p. 53 ff?
Kolb
highlights the distinctions of Body-Soul and Body-Soul-Spirit
anthropology. How can these distinctions be used
without falling into the trap of the material-spiritual
distinction which chapter 2 called bad?
Why
does Kolb think "Trust" is a better
than "Spirit" to describe the "human
end of our relationship with God?
"God
lords it under, not over, his creation."
Discuss.
Discuss the four (2 in one paragraph) establishments
of creation ("The doctrine of creation establishes...".)
"The
Gospel assures us that our entire life lies safe
in God's hand and that he is responsible for all
in his created order; his Law demands responsible
action from us at every turn." KOLB calls
this a paradox. Discuss the issues.
How
does Paul's teaching of the "resurrection
of the body" counter two errors of Gnosticism?
Why
is "truly theistic evolution" not possible?
Terms
and People
"myth"
ex nihilo
shalom
"in his own image" (4)
dominion, "lordship"
vocations
determinism
volutarism
"Biblical" freedom
:Bondage of the Will"
"Things above"
"things below"
pantheism
Deism (3)
dualism (ethical)
Gnosticism
"progressive exaltation"
individualism
materialism
atheistic evolution
"microevolution"
"macroevolution"
"Social Darwinism"
C.S. Lewis
Baruch Spinoza
Manes or Manichaeus
Charles Darwin
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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