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Who noted that 3/4 gospels are similar?
Bultmann
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What did Bultmann focus on in the gospels?
Historical elements to find
'authentic'
passages
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What did Darwin cast doubt on?
The
Genesis creation story
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Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
A
German
Lutheran pastor
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What church did Bonhoeffer belong to?
The Confessing Church
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Why was Bonhoeffer arrested?
Money
used to help Jews traced to him
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What did Bonhoeffer question in his letters from prison?
Christianity
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Who was Paul Tillich?
A
theologian
in the
1930-40s
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What did Tillich argue about God?
God must be the
'ground of our being'
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What social change occurred in the 1960s regarding women?
Women's role in the
workforce
became more important
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What event caused unhappiness with traditional roles in the 1960s?
Kennedy's assassination
and Vietnam involvement
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What was "Honest to God"?
A book by
JAT Robinson
in
1963
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Who was Joseph Fletcher?
An American
professor
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What did Fletcher publish in 1966?
'Situation Ethics
: The New Morality'
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What did Fletcher promote in his argument?
A compromise between
legalism
and
antinomianism
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What does Fletcher say about church principles?
They can't be
moral absolutes
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What should be considered first in Fletcher's ethics?
The
situation
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What is 'pure Christian love' according to Fletcher?
Agape
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How does Fletcher link to natural law?
Using
reason
to make ethical decisions
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What is Fletcher's view on scripture?
Accepted as a crucial source of the
norm
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What did Fletcher reject from scripture?
All
'revealed laws'
except
love
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What anecdote illustrates Fletcher's argument?
The taxi conversation about
principles
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What does the play "The Rainmaker" illustrate?
Seeing what's
good
over what's right
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What did Fletcher criticize about his own argument?
It's
not a new idea
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What are the possible options for decision making?
Legalistic
,
antinomian
,
situational
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What is Fletcher's middle way?
Principled relativism
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How does Fletcher view laws?
As 'illuminators' for
agape
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What is Fletcher's view of the conscience?
A function responding to
ethical
issues
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What is the traditional view of the conscience?
An
innate
,
radar-like
faculty
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What does Fletcher reject about morality?
It's a manual for the
conscience
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Should agape replace all other religious rules?
Yes,
Jesus
prioritized people over rules
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Why might agape not replace all religious rules?
Rules are needed for
guidance
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What is the degree to which agape is the only intrinsic good?
Agape is an
action
to be
good
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What do some disagree about agape as intrinsic good?
God's laws
are intrinsically good
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What is consequentialism?
Based on the consequences of an
action
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How is situation ethics seen as relativistic?
No
universal
moral rules, each situation unique
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How is situation ethics seen as consequentialist?
Judgment based on
outcomes
and experience
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How is situation ethics teleological?
Concerned with the
end purpose
of actions
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What is agape?
Compassion to everybody,
altruistic
love
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How does agape link to Jesus' teachings?
Love God, love your neighbor and enemy
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