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Natural law

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Based on the theological belief that God created and designed the world, giving purpose to everything.
All things have a natural purpose.
Achieving Gods given purpose equates to flourishing.

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Thomas Aquinas On Natural Law

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V.Influential in Catho Church today.
Aq saw that humans were set apart from animals due to our reason, allowing us to know Gods eternal law.
Giving us a more creative and fulfilled existence.
We experience Gs eternal law through our self evident principle, do good avoid evil.

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Heteronomous Christian Ethics

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Ethics governed by several sources of authority or law.

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Theonomous Christian Ethics

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Ethics governed by Gods law or commands.

Living a good life must be revealed by God.

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Biblicism

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Belief that the bible is the revealed word of god, that the writer were directly inspired by God.
Preferred to the term fundamentalism due to its negative connotations.

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“All scripture is inspired by God,..

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And is useful for teaching , for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness”
2 Timothy 3:16
Aims to show that every part of the bible is useful.

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Covenant

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Gods special promises made with humans which requires special behaviour from them.

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Contradictions within Literalism

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‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for as tooth’ Exodus 21:24
Capital punishment apparent for blasphemy, dishonouring parents, and adultery.
All in Old Testament.

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Karl Barth on divine status?

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Give divines status only to God.

The bible and other pieces are only inspired by him and are a slippery slope.

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Papal Encyclical

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Latter issued by the pope to his senior clergy on some significant topic or teaching.
Has doctrinal authority.

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Is literalism too realistic?

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Karl Barth - It is dangerous.
Bible shouldn’t get divine status.
Gospels are witness accounts to gods word - not gods word.
Bible must be read alongside human reason.