39 books - Genesis, Malachi - Hebrew
NT
27 books - 4 Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke n John - Greek
two main sources of moral teachings
the natural law (human nature) n divine law (revealed by god)
Ethical Teachings
The Sermon on the Mount - where jesus taught disciples and other followers
Biblical inerrancy
the teaching that the Bible presents faithfully and without error the truths that God revealed for our salvation
John Calvin (natural theology)
everyone has a sense of diversity, god is universal, we can know god within ourselves
The Bible as Revealed Theology
god has made himself known through history
Natural Revelation
what God communicates to us about himself simply through the existence of creation
Mysticism
mystical experience - god passing on his teachings as a form of religious experience
Propositional Revelation
The idea that God reveals himself in truth statements. To say that the Bible is an example of this is to say that the Bible is a series of truth statements - people who receive these are prophets
Non-Propositional Revelation
The idea that God does not reveal facts or information during the process of revelation. God makes himself known during the experience.
St Teresa
experienced visions of JC, most famous mysical experience
4 Stages of the ascent
(Devotion of) Heart, Peace, Union, Ecstasy
F.C Happold
two types of mysticism : love n union, knowledge n understanding
Love n Union
longing to escape one's loneliness n feeling separate - two urges that govern us all, to be an individual, to be accepted in some way
Knowledge n Understanding
secret of the universe, we want to know the whole story
Bible Interpretation
literary, form, redaction, historical (criticism)
literary criticism
the bible in its final form n analyses the literary methods n biblical authors
form criticism
analysis of the Bible by tracing the history of its content of parables, psalms, and other literary forms
redaction criticism
Examines how the various editors put together their sources and arranged them
historical criticism
tries to determine the historical context of the biblical text
Geological Context (Campania)