THEO 12_Integral Salvation, Evangelization, and Human Development

factors to over emphasizing the salvation of souls

1. platonic dualism

2. end of persecution and rise of monasticism and asceticism as ideal forms of Christianity

3. Overemphasis on Jesus’ incarnation and death, and neglect of His public ministry

Plato’s 2 planes reality in dualism

1. ideal world

2. material world

other name of the ideal world

world of ideas

what exists in the ideal world

unchanging, permanent, eternal ideals

other name of the material world

world of the senses

what exists in the material world

everything temporary, impermanent, and that changes

dualism evident after the persecution of Christians

1. corrupted Christians

2. real Christians

what happened to the real Christians during the persecution era

monasticism (hermits and monks leaving their families for prayer and discipleship

what do people miss out on in Jesus’ story when it is oversimplified

1. helping the poor

2. discipleship

absent in old testament belief

positive afterlife (heaven)

was imagined as dark, subterranean place where both good and bad lie row in row, with neither power nor hope

Sheol

how was salvation seen in the old testament

concretely

• abraham → child and land

• hebrew slaves → freedom and promise land

peace, absent of conflict

shalom

2 ways of shalom as well-being

1. individual health

2. “health” of the people

3 ways of shalom as a covenantal relationship

1. alliances

2. beneficial trade relations

3. Go'd’s covenant to His people (peace and mercy)

2 ways of shalom as prosperity

1. preyers of kings for his people — bounty

2. complain of the righteous agains the wicked

4 meanings of shalom

1. wholeness

2. well-being

3. covenantal relationship, harmony

4. prosperity, abundance

who integral human development must serve

1. the total person

2. the good of community and all its members