Development of biblical criticism

• What does 1 Timothy 11-12 say?

  11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
• What verse can be used to explain why women should not be ordained?

  1 Timothy 2:8-15
• What does 1 Timothy 2:8-15 say women can be saved through?

  Childbearing- faith, holiness and love
• How did people learn what to believe prior to the reformation?

  • From the Church and its traditional teachings
  • From the teaching of the clergy
  • Priests who had studied Latin and Church doctrine
• What was challenged during the reformation?

  The authority of the Catholic Church
• What language was the Bible translated to during the reformation?

  English
• What did the English translation of the Bible allow for?

  Personal opinions and ideas to be generated
• When was liberal theology developed?

  19th century
• What is liberal theology?

  An attempt to find the relevance of religion in modern life
• What did Albert Schweitzer try to do?

  Get beyond the biblical text to understand the historical Jesus
• What is biblical criticism?

  Systematic and critical examination of the bible
• What is higher criticism?

  How passages and books were written and how they relate to each other
• What is lower criticism?

  Examination of the detail, content, language and meaning
• What language does Biblical criticism examine?

  The original language the scripture was written in
• How has Karl Barth influenced scripture?

  Argued the Christian message in the Bible is not a development of Enlightenment values, its role is to challenge ordinary human assumptions
• According to Barth, can humans judge scripture?


  No, scripture is the judge of human reason
• What do fundamentalists believe?

  Rules that were applied in first-century Palestine should continue to be applied today, because they were accepted by early Christians
• Do fundamentalists believe the Bible needs to conform to modern critical scholarship or attitudes?


  No
• Who were the key women in the New Testament?

  • Mary Magdalene
  • Mary, mother of Jesus
  • Mary and Martha
  • The women who were the first to witness the resurrection
• What are two Bible quotes that support equality?

  • Roman 16:1-2
  • Galatians 3:26-28
• What does Roman 16:1-2 talk about?

  Commends Phoebe, a deacon, and asks God to give her any help she may need
• What does Galatians 3:26-28 say?

  Everyone under Jesus is equal, "nor is there male and female"
• What is a Bible quotes against equality?

  1 Corinthians 14:34-35
• What does 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 say?

  Women should be quiet and submissive in Church, if they have any questions they should ask their husbands at home
• What do Christian Egalitarians argue?

  There should be no distinction between men and women when it comes to the Church
• What do complementarians argue?

  Men and women have equal importance, but they have different roles in marriage, family life, society and Church
• What is the Catholic view of equality?


  Men and women are equal but different
• What does Natural Law suggest about equality?

  That people should live in a way that reflects their inherent nature, men and women are equal but different
• What did the Vatican say "On the question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood" in 1976?

  • Ordination of women is condemned
  • Jesus showed a model for a higher view of women, but still excluded them from Church