SRELED 2 MIDTERM REVIEWER

Complete trust or confidence in someone or something, strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Faith

The act or power of forming a mental picture of something not present, especially of something unknown or experienced, visualizing ideas or concepts not present to the senses.

Imagination

In the business world they would call this as "casting a vision."

Imagination

As art, it envisions and executes things which is hard to believe.

Imagination

• when it is biblically developed, we see people and things the way God sees them.

• Christians are called to imagine what could be and what will be while living in the present

How imagination changes us

Accounts of faith experiences of Jesus' followers who witnessed His deeds and listrned to his words

Gospels

Formation of the four gospels

First Stage: The earthly Life and Teaching of Jesus

Second Stage:Oral Tradition

Third Stage: The Written Gospels

It is what He taught us, from His Baptism in the Jordan River to His Public Ministry to His Passion, Death, Resurrection, Ascension to His Father in heaven, and sending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

First Stage: The earthly Life and Teaching of Jesus

This stage deals with the earthly life and works of Jesus.

It is a summary of what He did while He lived on earth, starting from His incarnation and birth in Bethlehem to the proclamation of His Mission in Nazareth

First Stage: The earthly Life and Teaching of Jesus

The disciples' faith in the Risen Christ moved them to an ardent proclamation of the Good News.

Second Stage:Oral Tradition

The descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, the fiftieth day after His resurrection, empowered them to go out and fulfill the task of preaching that Jesus had given them.

Second Stage:Oral Tradition

This preaching resulted in the formation of early communities from Jerusalem to Rome, Egypt, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia and out to the Mediterranean world.

Second Stage:Oral Tradition

With the existing materials that were available at the time, such as the epistles of St. Paul, the Evangelists gradually composed the Gospels. The task was great: the preservation of the words and works of Jesus, especially His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

Third Stage: The Written Gospels

The Gospels faithfully and without error give us the life of Jesus, His words and works that reveal God's love and ultimate meaning of our experiences and uplift and give hope to the life of all Christians

Third Stage: The Written Gospels

Stages of revelation

First Revelation: In the Beginning, God makes Himself known

Second Revelation: The Covenant with Noah

Third Revelation: God Chooses Abraham

Fourth Revelation: God forms his people

Fifth Revelation: Christ Jesus-Mediator and Fullness of all Revelations

First Revelation

In the Beginning, God makes Himself known

Second revelation

The Covenant with Noah

Third Revelation

God Chooses Abraham

Fourth Revelation

God forms his people

Fifth Revelation

Christ Jesus-Mediator and Fullness of all Revelations

Even if the revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian Faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of centuries

God’s Images

• Man in God’s Glory

• Old Testament

• New Testament

• Man of Dust

God’s Glory

Man in his creation as a work of art brings glory (praise and honor) to the artist so is with the creator

Man in God’s Glory

Stages of Revelation

The gradual unfolding of God's plan and self-revelation to humanity, from the beginning of creation to the fullness of revelation in Jesus Christ.

Humans are made in Gods image (Genesis 1:26-27).

This command also shows that human life is valued above animal life in God's eyes.

Old Testament

God values human life and will not allow the taking of life to stand without the killer giving an account.

Old Testament

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

New Testament

About jesus, his ascencion into heaven, the works of his disciples, and preaching the gospel

New testament

Refers to the image of Adam that all humans carry, symbolizing the natural body corrupted by sin and mortality.

Man of dust

speaks of the image of Adam we all carry, the natural body we are all familiar with, yet corrupted by sin and temporary.

Every human being bears the image of Adam; our features, both external and internal follow the pattern God established when forming Adam out of the earth.

Man of dust

3 images of God

1. God as a mother

2. God as a lover

3. God as a friend

Values of applying our imagination to faith

1. Creative thinking - encourages lateral thinking, which helps people reach beyond what they see, have already experienced and beyond tradition, and value what they find in other traditions.

2. Imagination - helps us explore understanding of mystery'; it can take us further than 'knowledge' can.

3. Imagination - gift of God that has advanced human culture. Eccles.3 "God has set eternity in the human mind".

4. God is 'unknowable' but he is ' imaginable' not as an image, but through concepts and metaphors.

5. We can relate to God through our imaginations and the metaphors and symbols we use to convey our understanding of God's actions and qualities

6. Imagination is part of our intercession - believing in God's abilities & trusting what God could do.

7. We can relate to God through our imaginations and the metaphors and symbols we use to convey our understanding of God's actions and qualities

8. Imagination - part of our intercession believing in God's abilities & trusting what God could do

9. Imagination - essential for effective evangelism and teaching: We need to be able to convey the abstract, unknowable' qualities of God and the values of faith in ways that bring them alive to others and enable them to engage their own imaginative faith in response.