The Nature of God
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| What does the nature of God mean? | Christian theology concerning what God is like |
| Who was Moltmann writing in response to? | Protest atheism, which questioned the existence of a God with terrible things happening |
| Where do Christianity's claims about the nature of God come from? | Scripture, biblical teachings and traditions in the church |
| What does Moltmann believe about the crucifixion? | That God the son suffered death on the cross, and God the father suffered the death of a son and due to the substantial presence in Jesus he is also God |
| Who was Moltmann writing in response to? | Protest atheism, which questioned the existence of a God with terrible things happening |
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| Six words used to describe the God of classical theism? | Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, Immutable and impossible |
| What does Moltmann believe about the crucifixion? | That God the son suffered death on the cross, and God the father suffered the death of a son and due to the substantial presence in Jesus he is also God |
| What are the Christian theological claims about God? | God is incarnate, due to his incarnation God is three people i.e the trinity |
| Where was the trinity developed? | At the council of Nicene where they established the Nicene creed |
| What is said in the Nicene creed? | "We believe in one God, the Father, we believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life." |
| How is God represented as a man? | In most paintings, TV shows and biblical scriptures |
| What biblical scriptures refer to God as father? | Psalm 103:13-14 and Matt 6 |
| Psalm 103: 13-14 | "As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him" |
| Matt 6 | "... but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father, who is unseen, then your Father, who sees what is done in secret will reward you" |
| Gen 2:2 - 3 | By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. |
| What other description shows God as a man? | Jesus of Nazareth was a man and a male saviour |
| What are the arguments for a gender neutral God? | The image of God as a Father is not about gender but rather to portray God as a creator with a loving and personal relationship with Jesus and humanity |
| Gender neutral language use of bible passages? | John 4:24, Matt 23: 37, 1 John 4:8, Gen 1:26 |
| John 4:24 | "God is Spirit" |
| Matt 23:37 | "I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings..." |
| 1 John 4:8 | "God is love" |
| Genesis 1:26 | "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness |
| How do Christian writers use female imagery for Jesus? | "Jesus like a mother you gather your people to you: you are gentle with us as a mother with her children" - St Anselm of Canterbury |
| How does Julian of Norwich use female imagery for Jesus? | "Our Saviour is our true mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come" |
| What does the trinity say about gender? | The trinity was never meant to say anything about gender but rather than origin |
| What was Sallie McFague's view on the nature | All language about God is metaphorical. Names and titles are ways in which we think about God. They say very little about God's true nature. |
| What does McFague believe about metaphors? | When we take metaphors to literally they become idols and aren't right as God is beyond our understanding. |
| What are the new metaphors suggested by McFague? | God as Mother, The son as Lover and the spirit as Friend |
| What is Sally McFague? | An eco feminist |
| What is another question asked about the nature of God? | Can God suffer? |
| What are the views on God being able to suffer? | Classical philosophy has tended to answer that God cannot suffer or die |
| Why is it viewed that God cannot suffer? | This is due to seeing God as omnipotent. Suffering and death happens to humans because of their weakness |
| What is the definition of divine immutablity? | Means that God doesn't change over time |
| What is the definition of divine impassibility? | Means that God doesn't experience pain or suffering |
| What are scriptures in the Old Testament that show that God can feel something? | 1 Samuel 15:11 and Exodus 32:14 |
| 1 Samuel 15:11 | “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” |
| Exodus 32:14 | "Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened." |
| What do the passages in Samuel and Exodus show? | The inner emotions of God such as compassion and empathy never change, but outwardly he clearly shows emotion |
| Gen 1:26 | “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness," |
| What was the Moltmann's view of the suffering God? | That God does suffer with humanity, and that on the cross, God experienced the suffering and death. Jesus as God gave the final cry |
| What was the title of Moltmann's book? | The Crucified God |
| What was the final cry of Jesus? | "My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me?" |
| What is Moltmann's work? | It is a theodicy: a theology of God's righteousness in the face of suffering and evil. |
| Who was Moltmann writing in response to? | Protest atheism, which questioned the existence of a God with terrible things happening |
| What does Moltmann believe about the crucifixion? | That God the son suffered death on the cross, and God the father suffered the death of a son and due to the substantial presence in Jesus he is also God |
| What is moltmann’s book an attempt to answer? | Jesus’ cry on the cross |
| What does moltmann argue the cross means today? | The theology of the cross is the reverse side of his theology of hope. Christian hope is based on the resurrection, but it cannot be realistic or liberating hope “unless it apprehends the pain of the negative” |
| What is Christian identity? | “An act of identification with the crucified Christ”. In him God has identified himself with those abandoned by God. |
| What example does Moltmann use to show this? | God hang with the Jewish boy hung by the nazis in the gallows as God suffers with those who suffer |
| What does that mean for Christian identification with the crucified Christ? | Solidarity with the poor, the oppressed and the alien |
| What is the cross seen as by Moltmann? | A divine process whereby the death of the son and the grief of the father led to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit |
| What is Docetism? | A heresey, that Christ's body was not human but either a phantasm or of real but celestial substance, and that therefore his sufferings were only apparent. |
| What does docetism mean for the cross? | Jesus only seemed to die and resurrect, if he didn’t really die, then salvation as we know it is made void. |