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Define the propositional approach to scripture
Content is a series of propositions (truths) given by God
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Where is the propositional approach to scripture often used?
Literalist interpretations of scripture
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Define natural theology
Truths that can be known through unaided human intellect, e.g that God exists and is the Creator, etc
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Define revealed theology
Truths that God reveals to an individual i.e. through religious experiences and through reading the Bible.
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What did Emil Brunner say about natural theology?
Proved God existed
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How did Karl Barth disagree with Brunner?
Can only gain true knowledge of God through revelation, not natural theology
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What issues could arise from propositional revelation of scripture?
Prop. rev. may not be accurate (passive), cannot know which are "true", can't verify, conflict betw. religion
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What is amanuensis?
Idea that writers of the Bible copied text from divine dictation
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Define the non-propositional approach
Scripture isn't direct word of God, but accurate account of those words from humans
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Give one advantage of the non-propositional approach
Shows how people could still be described as “believers” in Christianity in the years before the Bible’s existence
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What are some disadvantages of a non-propositonal approach to scripture?
Nodirect knowledge of God revealed, no certainty re what is revealed
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Define interpretations of the Bible in the literal sense
Simple explanations w/ focus on historical account
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Define interpretations of the Bible in the allegorical sense
Looking at spiritual meaning
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Define interpretations of the Bible in the tropological sense
Moral meaning
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Define interpretations of the Bible in the anagogical sense
Concerned w/ death, fate of soul, etc
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Give one advantage of having these ways to interpret scripture.
Allowed for sensitive interpretation of different scriptures
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Give one disadvantage of having these ways to interpret scripture.
Can be applied in a mechanical way --> Bible having more glossary than content.
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Define higher criticism of scripture.
Gaining rational understanding of Bible as literary work + product of its writers
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Name a philosopher associated w/ higher criticism.
Fredric Schleiermacher, Ludwig Feuerbach, David Friedrich Strauss
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Define historical criticism of scripture
Looks to date pieces of Biblical writing + attempting to understand the background against which it was written
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Define literary criticism of scripture
Concerned w/ form, structure, themes of text. Looks at whether passages should be considered narrative or poetic.
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Define special revelation
God revealing himself to an individual
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Define divine inspiration
God inspiring Biblical scripture
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What are some issues with divine inspiration in scripture?
How text got to humans, whether God gave it directly, what it teaches us about God
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What did Marshall say about the Bible?
Authortative, but sitll had flaws
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What did Jim Packer say?
Bible = wrd of God
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