Exam Notes TGB

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Allberry

Chapter 1: God is One Part 1

-One God

-Monotheism

-Devotion pg 24

-out of bounds

-demons are right

-Mission pg 27

-no God but one

--One God for all

Chapter 2: God is one Part 2

-Our View of God

-You cannot have one without the others

-Cannot play persons of trinity off against one another

-you cannot balance persons of the trinity

-Our View of the Cross 38

-Was the Father reluctant

-Was th son reluctant pg 40

-Our View of the Christian Life 42

-Obedience in one area as an excuse for disobedience

-Obedience as threat to other obedience 44

Chapter 3: God as Trinity

-name changes

-God As Trinity in the OT 48

-plurality of God

-angel of God

-Christ of God

-God as trinity in NT 54

-humanity of jesus

-divinity of jesus

-divinity of the spirit

-personhood of the spirit

-What the Trinity is and Isn't 59

-not 3 gods

-not 3 aspects

-not a contradiction

Chapter 4: God as Trinity Part 2

Idenitification between father and son 63

Distinction between Father and Son 66

-the trinity is not just how God is to us, but also how God is to Himself

-F, S, Spirit not temporary roles, eternal ids 67

Why this matters and what the Trinity shows

-God is eternally loving and just

-God is not dependent on us

-the true goal of the gospel 72

Part 2: The Trinity and Us

Chapter 5: The Trinity and Humanity

who we are

In the Image of God

Relationships Matter 81

-stuff first; people second

Service Matters 84

-How we do power

-How Jesus does power 86

-Love for others in the trinity

Marriage and Sexuality Matter 88

-Adam and Eve= one

-Jesus on marriage

-marriage and gender 91

-marriage and family life

-marriage and sex 93

-marriage and sexuality

-unity in difference, not sameness 95

-how to find yourself

Chapter 6: Trinity and Gender

-man as head of woman and Christ as head of man and God as head of Christ 101

The Relatinship Between Father and Son

-probing more deeply into their equality

-probing into their difference 104

-difference during jesus' ministry

-difference in eternity past

-difference in eternity future

Headship in the Trinity 107

-implications of this relationship

-headship and submission not inequality

-not intrinsically bad

The Relationship Between the Man and Woman 110

equality and difference

headship in male-female relationships

all of us are under headship

Christ is the example for us all

male headship is to correspond to God's loving headship113

Chapter 7: The Trinity and Church

The Church's Unity

-unity in the context of diversity

-Unity from God 118

-becoming what we worship

The Church's Diversity

-don't look down on your gifts

-don't look down on other's gifts 125

being a body

Christ's body

Christ's bride 130

The Church's Witness

Chapter 8: What really happens when you talk to God (Trinity and Prayer)

-The difficulty of prayer

-Looking for help

By the Spirit 138

-the Spirit and why we pray

-making his presence felt

-knowing our sonship

-The Spirit and what we pray 141

-praying when we don't know what to pray for

-praying in line with God's will

Through the Son 144

-The party has already begun

-Praying in Jesus' name 147

-Remembering the basis of prayer

To the Father 149

-Prayer to the Son? Prayer to the Spirit?

-No muddling up the persons of the trinity

What the Father is like 152

-Accessible

-Good

-Defining Fatherhood

Chapter 9: The Trinity and Worship

-Recovering the scale of the gospel

Chosen by the Father 159

-Why

-When

Rescued by the Son 162

-rescue and redemption

-rescue and revelation

Sealed with the Spirit 166

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Groothuis

Chapter 1: Truth in Jeopardy

Truth in Decay

Understanding Truth Decay 22

Acids of Truth Decay

- beliefs leading to truth decay 26-31

7 claims by postmodernists about personal power relationships that are false.

Chapter 2: Modernism to Postmodernism

Premodern Era

-1 unified religion

-persecution

-church and state united

-reformation 34

Modern Era 35

-enlightenment

-logic as means of determining truth

-God's demise 37

Postmodern Era 38

-naturalism

-nontheistic

-material world is all there is

-depth of relativity 39

Postmodernism: Modernism Gone 2 Seed 40

-human reason can be objective, science is complete limit of knowledge etc

-mind is simply biology 42

Today's Modernism Against Post-Modernism

-objectivism 47

Revenge of premodern against modern

-religious pluralism

-gnosticism 51-52

Postmodernity as a Social Condition 52

-modenrity not completely transcended

-rampant pluralism 53

-technological sturation 54

-destabalizes fixed identity 54

-virtual realities 57-58

Sorting Things Out

-postmodernism and modernism overlap and contradict, modernism is not dead, we are all affected by the postmodern social condition

Chapter 3: The Biblical View of Truth

Biblical Language and the Nature of Truth

-emet

-God's truth in the bible

-aletheia

-pistos

-each member of Trinity closely associated with truth 63

Distinctives of Biblical View of Truth 65

1. truth is revealed by God

2. Truth is knowable and objective

3. Christian truth is absolute in nature 69

4. Truth is universal 72

5. Truth of God is eternally engaging and momentous, not trendy or superficial

6. Truth is exclusive, specific, and antithetical 75

7 Truth, Christianly understood, is systematic and unified 79

8. Christian truth is an end, not a means to any other end 80

Returning to Truth

-previous numbers are necessary for Christians to not be overcome by postmodernism

Chapter 4: The Truth About Truth

Two Views of Truth

-belief as subjective 86

Defending the Correspondence View of Truth 86

-only one of the 2 notions can be true

-propositions 87

-any statement is true if and only if it corresponds to reality 88

Postmodernist View of Language and Truth 93

-the word truth is simply a creation of language which has various uses in various cultures 93

Christian Missions as a Counter Example 96

-conversions regardless of language barriers

Logical Consistency and Truth

-COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTH

-coherence among various statements 97

-correspondence is the definition and nature of truth and coherence is the test of truth

Truth and Power Relationships 98

-"truth" is just a function of power in relationships 98

Truth and the Sociology of Knowledge 100

-social relationships affect how people view truth 101

-intelligent design movement 102

Postmodern Pragmatism and Truth 104

-truth becomes means for achieving certain ends

-manipulation of language 105

Self-Reference, Consistency, and Perspectivism 106

-postmodern definition of truth is social contstruct itself making it false

-our perspectives affect our view, not what truth really is 108

Christianity and the Correspondence View of Truth 109

-propositional or declarative statements are subject to verification and falsification 110

Chapter 5: The Postmodernist Challenge to Theology

Propositions, Truth and Theology

-scripture as God's revelation

-we are called to defend theology in a convincing way 112

-propositions throughout the bible

McGrath and Grenz on Propositional Revelation 116

The Truth of God Incarnate 118

1. Jesus is truly divine and truly human

2. Jesus is one person with two natures: divine and human

3. Jesus' two natures express a hypostatic union of divinity and humanity in one person

Theology: First-Order Propositions

Logical Consistency and Theology 120

Invoking Postmodernism Illicity 127

Middleton and Walsh on "Strange Truth" 131

Murphy on Unsurpassability 133

Back to God's Metanarrative 135

Chapter 6: Postmodernism and Apologetics; Dangers to Avoid

Willimon on "Jesus' Peculiar Truth" 140

Kenneson Against Objective Truth 145

Newbigin's Uncertain Truth 152

-pg 157

Toward a Better Way 159

Chapter 7: Apologetics For Postmoderns

Biblical Apologetics: Arguing Truth in the Marketplace

The Hidden Dangers of Relevance 163

True Spirituality: Truth for the Soul 165

Exposing Postmodernist Nihilism 168

Postmodern Diversions and the Testimony of Human Need 172

Rudiments of Apologetic Method 175

Appeal to the Best Explanation 179

Two Apologetic Models 182

The Need For Objective Truth and Subjective Engagement 184

Chapter 8: Ethics Without Reality, Postmodernist Style

Reification and Ethics 192

Wilberforce: Against the World, for the World

Value Creation: Rorty and Nietzsche 198

Foucault on Human Nature 202

Exploring Otherness 204

Coming to Terms with the Lawgiver 207

Chapter 9: Race, Gender Postmodernism

Truth, Race, and Gender 213

Scriptural Truth on Race and Gender 217

Colorizing Church History 220

Truth Known and Shared Across Cultures

Postmodernism and Ethocentrism 224

Are Egalatarians Postmodernists? 228

Derrida to the Rescue? 229

Why Egalatrianism Need Not Be Postmodernist

Beyond Reification and into Postmodernist Chaos 236

A Better Way Forward

Chapter 10: True Beauty The Challenge to Postmodernism

Art: By What Standard?

Problems and Issues in Postmodern Art 244

Countering Postmodernism: A Christian View of Art 248

Developing Aesthetic Discernment 256

Beyond Postmodernism: Art in Architecture 260

Chapter 11: The Fixed Point in a Postmodern World

The Next Watershed

The Fixed Point 265

Be Seekers of Truth 266

Truth Means Loving Confrontation

Teach and Preach with a Holy Sobriety 269

Worship in Spirit and in Truth 272

Presenting Truth in Evangelism 274

Rediscover the Doctrine of Calling 277

The Final Word from the Fixed Point 279

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DeYoung

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