Theology Final

Luke’s version of Jesus’s words on the cross

“Father forgive them”

Pentecost

-fiftieth→50 days after passover

-the giving of the Holy Spirit→ Ruach (breath)

• speaking in different languages/tongues

-Continuation of God’s ongoing presence

• transformation: its given out to everyone

-Church’s birthday

Passover/Last Supper

-Liberation movement where God takes Israelites out of oppression

-God’s last supper with his disciples

-Last supper was on Passover

Service For

- a good deed done for someone else

-example: food to homeless

• Benefits:

  →pleasing others

  →shows you care

  →out of the kindness of your heart

  →trying to make relationships better

• Dangers:

  →chasm between people

  →not considering yourself in situation

  →not the heart of God

Service With

-authentic encounter with other

-example: peer mentor program

• Benefits:

  →personal connection

  →heart of God

  →most fundamental thing about God

  →Gods whole life and purpose are shaped to be “with” us

• Damages:

  →”with” is harder than “for”

  →must be with someone to experience this”

Passio

-suffering

→refer to Jesus suffering

Discernment

-the careful art of decision making

• process→skill that is developed

Consolation/ Desolation

-good/bad feelings

-affections

7 attitudes of discernment

1) Openness

2) Generosity

3) Courage

4) Interior Freedom

5) A habit of prayerful reflection on one’s experience

6) Having one’s priorities straight

7) Not confusing ends with means

Active suffering

-being open to suffering because God is willing to be open to other peoples suffering

Parable

-story that uses analogies, illustrations, to make a point

-telling us about ourselves

-Jesus holding a mirror

-ordinary or everyday object

-not comfortable to hear

Miracle

-public signs of the Reign of God

-something not possible by humans

-unexpected

-restore God’s goodness

Justice

- we are treating people like they are made in the image and likeness of God -inherit dignity and equality

Restorative Justice

-reconciliation

-repair relationships

→”how can I make it right”

Retributive Justice

action=consequences

→ if you steal, you go to jail

Service of faith and promotion of justice

Faith+Justice

-embodiment of faith

-actively working towards justice

Institution

-set of shared arrangements and shared norms that result in cooperative action

Ethic of Love

call to love everyone→ neighbors and enemies

Kinship community

Unity- people come together to help one another

-family, may not be blood related

-the kin of christ

Historical practice of crucifixion

-was a spectacle

-could take days→death of dehydration

-or suffocation→arms being out too long

-happened outside the city

-no sympathy or cutoff for women or children

-lowest class, criminals, Jewish

→did not happen to higher class

→lowest class died in shame

-if your family member was crucified, the rest of the family had to leave town until the body was unrecognizable

3 things we can say about the work on the cross

1)Act of Liberation

-Jesus→savior and deliverer

-Last supper

2)Act of Solidarity

-dies how his people died

-Jesus as human experiences suffering like us

3)Act of Radical Forgiveness

-”Father forgive them”- what Jesus said

-we move towards suffering, not away from it

Jesus’ Post resurrection message to his disciples

Greeting: “Peace be with you”

Last words: “You will preach repentance and forgiveness of sin”

State and explain the mission Jesus gives to his disciples

How the disciples will be equipped for this mission

mission: you will be a witness

→they testify

-to be a witness, the Holy Spirit is needed

Name and explain Gaillardetz’ three arguments for the institutional church and three critiques of it

Three arguments:

1)Jesus- fully divine, fully human→provides model for us to follow

2)tradition- Pentecost

3) Particularly of incarnation- taking charge of the flesh of God’s loving and divine presence, making God present in the world around us

Three critiques:

1)feminist theology- no space for voice of women

2)political- theologians are getting too involved with politics

3)sex abuse

Basic gist of the Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son

Good Samaritan: The story of the good Samaritan is Jesus calling us to be neighbors to our enemies. This reminds us we are to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.

Prodigal Son: God's love for us and his willingness to forgive us no matter what we have done

What element of Ignatian Spirituality Pope Francis relies on the most to help him live his ministry

Discernment

Identify an appropriate Christian response to suffering in the light of the theology of the cross

-we move towards suffering, not away from it

-suffering isn’t the end

State the Christian beliefs about Jesus’ resurrection stated in class and describe how those beliefs changed the way the earliest Christian community lived

Resurrection: dead→alive

1)fulfills Gods promise

2)God’s vindication of suffering→Jewish people thought it was God’s way of condemning the person who caused the suffering

3)Mystery

4)Fully dead and fully alive

5)Hope- suffering is not the end

6)Reprioritizing how we look at life

-Acts 2

Define justice and provide one theological argument about why the human person should care about justice and actively work towards it

Justice: we are treating like they are made in the image and likeness of God -inherit dignity and equality

Arguments:

1)move us towards our telos

2)Jesus cared about it- he is a model we follow

3)helps with relationships

Name and explain the three reasons that Thurman argues makes forgiveness mandatory

1) God forgives us again and again

→imitate what God does

2)No evil deed represents the full person

→candy bar theft example

3)The evil doer does not go unpunished

→withholding forgiveness does not help

Define discernment and when discernment is used according to Ignatius

Know the 3 factors we entertain when discerning

Discernment: the careful art of decision making

Factors of discernment:

1) Community

2)Forces of Habit

3)Interior movement- consolation/desolation