'God' signifies nothing. For Freud it is a father figure. For Feuerbach, a projection.
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Natural Theology: Outline the idea that God signifies order to the Universe.
Plato, Pythagoras, Christopher Alexander: it is mysterious that there is order in the universe. This presupposes something transcendent - argument from design.
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NT: Outline the idea that God signifies the origin of truth & beauty.
Plato, Augustine: The fragility of life and glimpses at truth and beauty suggest a transcendent form of Good.
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NT: The First Cause argument.
Aquinas: nothing can come from nothing so the fact that there is something suggests a transcendent start.
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NT: Outline the idea that God signifies the cause of moral sense.
Kant: the existence of conscience points us in the direction of God.
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NT: Outline the idea that God signifies the sense of absolute dependence.
Schleiermacher argued that at the base of our consciousness was the feeling of absolute dependence which is in fact the existence of God.
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What does Anselm say?
God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived.
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What does Aquinas say?
We do not know what God is, only what God is not. We can only think of the ways God does not exist (i.e. having a body) rather than how he does exist.
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Barth: The being of God in act.
We cannot leave the sphere of his action as it is revealed to us in his Word. We must look to God's act in revelation. The peak of God's revelation is that God speaks as an 'I' to a 'thou'. We learn what it means to be a person through God's act.
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Barth: The being of God as the one who loves.
God is the one that seeks and creates fellowship between Godself and us. The essence of God is love. God's loving is an end within itself and is necessary because it is in God's nature.
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Barth: The being of God in freedom.
Freedom is to be grounded in ones own being. God is self-originating. God is not constrained in the way we are.
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Card 2
Front
Natural Theology: Outline the idea that God signifies order to the Universe.
Back
Plato, Pythagoras, Christopher Alexander: it is mysterious that there is order in the universe. This presupposes something transcendent - argument from design.
Card 3
Front
NT: Outline the idea that God signifies the origin of truth & beauty.
Back
Card 4
Front
NT: The First Cause argument.
Back
Card 5
Front
NT: Outline the idea that God signifies the cause of moral sense.
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