Just a reminder that we will not be having class on Monday, November 19th, 2007.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Week 8: Homework
Reading Assignment:
Read Chapters 8-9 of Theology and Sanity, “Some Further Precisions” and “Concluding This Part”—pp. 110—123.
Questions:
Chapter 8
1. Why are you a distinct person? (p. 111)
2. Whose words can wholly express God? (p.113)
3. If the Three Persons of the Trinity all possess infinite knowledge, why does only the Father’s generate an idea? (p.113)
4. Upon what does success in finding answers to questions about the Trinity have bearing? (p.114)
5. If our finite nature cannot fully know the Infinite, of what (concerning God) can we be sure? (p.115)
Chapter 9
6. How are we to understand the sendings of the Son and the Holy Spirit? (p.118)
7. Why is Creation attributed to the Father, Sanctification to the Holy Spirit, and Redemption to the Son?
8. Define appropriation. Explain it in your own words.
9. What reason does Sheed suggest for having appropriation?
Reflection Question:
Re-read Section iii of Chapter 9. Now that we’ve finished this part of our study, how your knowledge of God compare to when you started this class? How about your love for Him?
Read Chapters 8-9 of Theology and Sanity, “Some Further Precisions” and “Concluding This Part”—pp. 110—123.
Questions:
Chapter 8
1. Why are you a distinct person? (p. 111)
2. Whose words can wholly express God? (p.113)
3. If the Three Persons of the Trinity all possess infinite knowledge, why does only the Father’s generate an idea? (p.113)
4. Upon what does success in finding answers to questions about the Trinity have bearing? (p.114)
5. If our finite nature cannot fully know the Infinite, of what (concerning God) can we be sure? (p.115)
Chapter 9
6. How are we to understand the sendings of the Son and the Holy Spirit? (p.118)
7. Why is Creation attributed to the Father, Sanctification to the Holy Spirit, and Redemption to the Son?
8. Define appropriation. Explain it in your own words.
9. What reason does Sheed suggest for having appropriation?
Reflection Question:
Re-read Section iii of Chapter 9. Now that we’ve finished this part of our study, how your knowledge of God compare to when you started this class? How about your love for Him?
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Week 7: Homework
Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 7 of Theology and Sanity, “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”—pp. 98—110.
Questions:
1. What are we exploring in this chapter? (p.98)
2. God know and loves, for God is a spirit and these are the proper operations of Spirit. What follows from the fact that God is infinite spirit? (p.99)
3. What are the two names for the Second Person of the Trinity given to us in Scripture? (p.99)
4. What two elements constitute the essence of being a son? Give the philosophical definition of sonship. (p. 99)
5. What is God teaching us when He tells us to call the second person of the Trinity “the Son”? (p. 100)
6. Was God ever not a Father? (p.101)
7. What is the only adequate object of infinite knowledge? (p.103)
8. The Second Person of the Trinity proceeds from the First by way of knowledge. How does the Third Person proceed? How does this relate to the operations of spirit? (p. 105)
9. How is the word spirit when used in the term Holy Spirit different from how it used when we speak of God as spirit? (p. 106)
10. What verbs do we use to describe the respective processions of the Second and Third Persons of the Trinity? (p. 107)
Reflection Questions:
1. Read 2 Timothy 1: 7. What kind of spirit has God given us? How does this relate to what we’ve been studying?
Read Chapter 7 of Theology and Sanity, “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”—pp. 98—110.
Questions:
1. What are we exploring in this chapter? (p.98)
2. God know and loves, for God is a spirit and these are the proper operations of Spirit. What follows from the fact that God is infinite spirit? (p.99)
3. What are the two names for the Second Person of the Trinity given to us in Scripture? (p.99)
4. What two elements constitute the essence of being a son? Give the philosophical definition of sonship. (p. 99)
5. What is God teaching us when He tells us to call the second person of the Trinity “the Son”? (p. 100)
6. Was God ever not a Father? (p.101)
7. What is the only adequate object of infinite knowledge? (p.103)
8. The Second Person of the Trinity proceeds from the First by way of knowledge. How does the Third Person proceed? How does this relate to the operations of spirit? (p. 105)
9. How is the word spirit when used in the term Holy Spirit different from how it used when we speak of God as spirit? (p. 106)
10. What verbs do we use to describe the respective processions of the Second and Third Persons of the Trinity? (p. 107)
Reflection Questions:
1. Read 2 Timothy 1: 7. What kind of spirit has God given us? How does this relate to what we’ve been studying?
The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
This week in class I mentioned the impossibility of knowing our final hour. I said, "you never know when a cow might land on you and kill you."
One of our classmates then came across this article:
FALLING COW LANDS ON WESTLAND COUPLE'S MINIVAN
MANSON, Wash. -- A Westland couple celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary in Washington State barely escaped disaster when a 600-pound cow fell 200 feet and landed on the hood of their minivan.
The county fire chief says the couple were lucky they weren't killed by the cow that fell off a cliff as they drove on a highway on Sunday.
Charles Everson Jr. and his wife Linda were checked at a hospital as a precaution. The van was heavily damaged, including a broken windshield.
Charles Everson says he kept repeating, "I don't believe this. I don't believe this."
The cow had been reported missing by a breeder. It was euthanized at the scene.
One of our classmates then came across this article:
FALLING COW LANDS ON WESTLAND COUPLE'S MINIVAN
MANSON, Wash. -- A Westland couple celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary in Washington State barely escaped disaster when a 600-pound cow fell 200 feet and landed on the hood of their minivan.
The county fire chief says the couple were lucky they weren't killed by the cow that fell off a cliff as they drove on a highway on Sunday.
Charles Everson Jr. and his wife Linda were checked at a hospital as a precaution. The van was heavily damaged, including a broken windshield.
Charles Everson says he kept repeating, "I don't believe this. I don't believe this."
The cow had been reported missing by a breeder. It was euthanized at the scene.
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