Class Lectures
The Humanistic Horizon
16th and 17th centuries
Moments of self-realization
Challenges tradition and moves toward subjectivity . I think.I believe.It seems to me
Return to the sources
Knowledge through experience
Individual subjectivity thro
Theo 108
1/30/12
Reason: Collective human cognition (THE WORLD) (THE CULTURE)
-Public form
Revelation: Devine communication to human beings- online encyclopedia for (Church)
(CHRIST) religion
-Devine- God, comm.- talking to us
- (Reveal)- Apocalypse, -tic
Theo 105
2/3/12
The Christ against culture model uncompromisingly affirms the sole authority of Christ
over the Christian and resolutely rejects cultures claims to loyalty [to itself] (Niebuhr,
45)
Common Themes
1. The world is sinful.
a. Sui generis= GDI
Theo 108
2/13/12
Tertullians
The demurrer against the Heretics
- Extreme monotheism leads to exclusive fideism
o Monotheism: the belief that there is one God.
o Fideism: the adoption of belief in the one God, held over against reason
- The One God has spo
Use vs enjoy
- To enjoy something is to hold fast to is in love for its own sake. To use something
is to apply whatever it may be to the purpose of obtaining what you loveof
indeed it is something that ought to be loved.Christian teaching
- Use- to apply
Theo 105
3/19
Thomas Aquinas
(1225-1274)
You missed a great naked mole rat story. Haha
Scholasticism- associated with schools
- Pre-enlightenment
- Middle ages- Medieval
The Aristotelian Horizon of Thomas Aquinas
- Rediscovery of Aristotelian philosophy i
How these obersvation in relation to q1 in the suma and how they relate to the church and
world dynamic?
Human reason truth
Divine Reason salvation
Uniqueness
Philosophy is true but not sufficient without divine reason
What is the subject of the summa the
Christ and Culture in paradox
Key figures: Apostle Paul, Marcion, Martin Luther
Declarative grace
Paul convert from Judaism to Christianity
Marcion took out anything that has to do with Anatheism
1) Theology cannot be separated from personal involvement.
Theo 105
4/11/12
Christ and Culture in Paradox Contd
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- The Paradigmatic theologian
o The one who sets the pattern/standard for those who come after him
o Theology born from this existential
o Cant separate what he believes about
Theo 105 4/16/12
1. Feminist-Womanist dialogue
2. Williams Article
3. Retrieval
Hermeneutic- a chosen interpretive framework
Point of view
Feminist hermeneutic- using womens experience as a chosen interpretive framework
Womanist hermeneutic- using black w
Rene Descartes
(1637- Discourse on Method)
Luther opened the door for critical theologians
Descartes- freedom- Luther
The Tru(e)man Show
Aristotelian Scholasticism
Soldier in the army
20 years before he published his discourse
on a tour 1619, stranded in
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Critical Philosophy
Epistemology: Study of thought
Transcendental
- Self
- Everyone The whole
- Looking at the rules that apply to everyone by turning to your self
The Critiques
1. Critique of (Pure) Reason
a. Happen to quickly
b
CHURCH IN THE WORLD
THEO 105-001/Catholic Studies 105
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
SPRING 2012
WILLIAM MYATT
PH.D. CANDIDATE, CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY
Course Details:
MWF 8:15-9:05
Crown Center 141
Instructor Office Hours:
MWF 9:15-10:15
Crown Center 328
Contac
Tyler Hough
Theo 105
W. Myatt
6 Feb 2012
Sachs and Farmer and their approach to suffering
Jeffrey Sachs Common Wealth and Paul Farmers Pathologies of Power both
address key problems that are currently affecting our world. The multiple topics that
Sachs br
Theo 108
1/27
Introduction to niebuhr
His approach to theology is different
A bartian approach
Gives us a typology
5 ways
With this he is brewing a hermatutician
A Christian
1894- 1962 horizon
Professors of Christian ethic at Yale
Rise of liberalism (19th
Theo 105 1/25/12
10 questions
-Notes and readings
Fill in the blank
Theo s defined as _, _, and _.
Multiple Choices
Definition of religion
What makes up authentic conversation?
- 2 partners and 2 activities
- Outline not an essay
FragmentUseful way of con
Tyler Hough
THEO 105
W. Myatt
4 April 2012
Christ above Culture
In his book Christ and Culture, Richard Niebuhr says, We cannot say, Either
Christ or culture, because we are dealing with God in both cases (122). It is hard to
separate God from culture bec
Tyler Hough
THEO 105
W. Myatt
4 April 2012
Christ above Culture
In his book Christ and Culture, Richard Niebuhr says, We cannot say, Either
Christ or culture, because we are dealing with God in both cases (122). It is hard to
separate God from culture bec
Kohn is a classic
THEO 105 Church in the World
Loyola University Chicago
Spring 2012
ELIZABETH JOHNSON READING GUIDE:
1. What does Johnson mean by the phrase the quest for the living God? (To understand
the sentence, be sure to break it down into its firs
IMMANUEL KANT An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?"
Konigsberg in Prussia, 30th September, 1784.
Enlightenment is man's
emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the
inability to use one's own understanding without the guida
THEO 105 Church in the World
JAMES CONE ONLINE VIDEO
VIEWING GUIDE
1) What are the two sources of theology for James Cone?
Trying to bring MLK and civil rights movement with the black power movement, Malcolm
Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X blackness
THEO 105 Church in the World
Loyola University Chicago
Spring 2012
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR ON THOMAS AQUINAS (PP. 128-137) READING GUIDE:
1) Niebuhr says Thomas represents a synthesis of two approaches to the church-world
relationship. How would you define tho
How does Luther understand faith?
Pg. 9
For that reason I can bear with a less hateful spirit those who ling too pertinaciously to
the papacy, particularly those who have not read the sacred scriptures, or also the profane,
since I, who read the scripture
Quiz 1
1. Karl Barth and the neo-orthodox approach to theology responded to
the rise of 19 century liberalism by pointing theologians to the
objectively real, personal, and living God of Christianity
2. The following traits characterize the 19 century lib
THEO 105 Church in the World
Loyola University Chicago
Spring 2012
Quiz #2
STUDY GUIDE
According to class lectures
1. Karl Barth and the neo-orthodox approach to theology responded to the rise of 19th
century liberalism by god is personal, real and object
THEO 105 Church in the World
Loyola University Chicago
Spring 2012
Quiz #3
STUDY GUIDE
1. What are the three mediating types in Niebuhrs typology?
Christ above culture, Christ and Culture in Paradox, Christ transforming Culture
2. True or False: Theologia
THEO 105 Church in the World
Loyola University Chicago
Spring 2012
Tertullian and Tolstoy
READING GUIDE
Tertullian:
1. According to Tertullian, After Jesus Christ, there is no need of
2. Tertullian establishes very early in his text precisely what we beli
Theo 105 1/20/12
Agenda:
1) Questionnaires
2) What is Theology? (Definition)
3) Tracy article- Classics
4) A Conversation on Conversation
5) New Reading Assignment
Definitions:
1. Religion: A set of constructs, symbols, and language, usually adopted colle
Theo 105
1/23
Sachs & Farmer and Tracy on quiz- global society
PAPER
Summarize the contemporary global situation
Overlapping theme
Sachs as an economist, Farmer is a doctor and the d
2 pages 4-5 paragraph
Then identify the over lapping themes 1-2 pages
Bi
THEO 105 CHURCH IN THE WORLD
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS READING GUIDE
SUMMA THEOLOGICA , Part 1, Question 1, Articles 1-8.
Instructions: As you will see, Thomass first Question in the first part of Summa addresses the
nature and extent of sacred doctrine. This is
