How Can We Know?Session Two

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• Who is a theologian?

• Two tasks of theology?

The Constructive Task

Building Models

Our Course

Week One: Everyone is a TheologianWeek Two: How Can We Know?

1. God Talk (theology)

Week Three: Why Is Life So Hard?2. Original Blessing (Creation)3. Missing the Mark (Sin)4. East of Eden (Covenant, Law, and Community)

Week Four: Is There Hope?5. God con Carne (Incarnation)6. Life Wins (Atonement)

Week Five: What’s the Point?7. The Body of Christ (Church and Holy Spirit)8. The End of All Things (Eschatology)

Week Six: Keep the Conversation Alive

Ancient World

Medieval World

ModernWorld

What is the Post-Modern World?

• What was an “aha” moment in the presentation?

• What question would you want ask?

Find a relatively friendly

looking stranger and listen

them into free speech.

3 Views of Scripture

Just another

book

God’s Rules for Living

An accurate record of

humans in relation to

God

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History of the WORD OF GOD

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Abraham - Malachi 400B.C. - Christ Christ – 400 A.D.

oral oral

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Scripture…“The major significance of the Bible is not that it is a book, but rather that it reflects the life of the community of Israel and the primitive church as those communities sought to come to terms with the central reality that God was present with them in ways that regularly outran their ability to understand or cope.” -- Paul Achtmeier quoted in Revisioning Evangelical Theology by Grenz p. 122

• What was an “aha” moment in the presentation?

• What question would you want ask?

Find a relatively friendly

looking stranger and listen

them into free speech.

The Fusion of Horizons

• What was an “aha” moment in the presentation?

• What question would you want ask?

Find a relatively friendly

looking stranger and listen

them into free speech.

Why is It so Hard?God, Creation, Sin, and Humanity