What is the Human situation according to Christians?
'The first man was not only created good, but was in friendship with his creator' (RCC 374)
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What is a quotation from Genesis 3 (The Fall)?
'For dust you are and to dust you will return'
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What is Augustine's Theodicy?
Based on two presumptions: evil didn't come from God and God has justified evil staying
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Where did St. Augustine say evil came from?
Humans and argues you deliberately chose to turn away from God
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What are criticisms from F.D.E. Schleidemracher about Augustine's theodicy?
Evil CANT come in a perfect world and can't create itself out of nothing
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What is Iraenus' Theodicy?
God's aim is to create flawless humans
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What else was said in Iraenus' Theodicy?
God gave us free will and we have the potential to disobey him
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What are modern views on Iraenus' theodicy?
High and Vardy said there are three things needed for human development
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What are three things needed for human development according to Hick and Vardy?
Humans must be created imperfect, humans must be distanced from God and natural world couldn't be paradise
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What is a quotation from Hick?
'Epistemic distance from God'- distanced by knowledge
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What did Hick argue about our world?
That it wasn't designed for the purpose of maximising human pleasure and minimising human pain
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What is a quotation from Apsotle's creed about redemption through Jesus?
'I believe in... The resurrection of the body'
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What does the parable of the Sheep and Goat show (Matthew)?
Followers of Christ will teach others with kindness, serving them as if they were serving Christ themselves
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What do Hindus teach?
All creation should be treated with care and respect- should fulfil our duties
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What else do Hindus teach?
Need to complete your dharma as there are consequences. At the end of each life, the atman is reincarnated into a new body - hoping to move up the cycle of samsara
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What is a quotation from Bhavagad Gita 2:22?
'The soul gives up old, worn out bodies and accept new bodies'
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How is successful dharma expressed?
By moksha
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What do Buddhists teach?
Follow the four noble truths and use the eightfold path
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What do Christians teach what it is like to be human?
That we are created by God and humans have a spiritual and material aspect
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What does the soul refer to according to Christians?
Innermost aspect of a man, that which is of greatest value in himself
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What do Anglicans teach?
Physical body is the early directing of the soul, we return to dust (Genesis 2:7)
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What do Roman Catholics believe?
There is a suggestion that R. Catholics don't believe in a dualistic view of humans
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What is dualism?
Body and mind are distinct from one another, but linked
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What did Plato say about dualism?
The soul is realm of the spirit- soul is immortal
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What did Aristotle say about dualism?
That the soul animates the body and makes it a living form
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Therefore, what does Aristotle say about the body and soul?
They are inseparable, humans have a soul so are capable of human life
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Who was Aquinas influenced by?
Influenced by Aristotle
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What did Aquinas say?
The soul survives death- retained after death
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What is cartesian dualism?
The mind can survive death, we continue with God after death
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What did Bernard Williams say?
Memories are not a good guide for identity, can be fabricated identity is the physical characteristics
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What did Job 1:21 say?
'The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away'
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