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Lesson 29: Knowing God in the Middle Ages

Lesson 29: Knowing God in the Middle Ages. How can I know God?. We can only ask this question because of grace. General Revelation. Special Revelation.

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Lesson 29: Knowing God in the Middle Ages

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  1. Lesson 29: Knowing God in the Middle Ages How can I know God?

  2. We can only ask this question because of grace • General Revelation • Special Revelation “Since the canon of Scripture is complete and abundantly sufficient for every purpose, what need is there to add to it the authority of the church’s interpretation? The reason is that, by its very depth, the Holy Scripture is not received by all in one and the sane sense, but its declarations are subject to interpretation, now in one way, now in another. So it would appear that we can find almost as many interpretations as there are people.” Peregrinus Four primary means of knowing God: Wesleyan “Quadrilateral” J.I. Packer “Quest for Godliness” • Scripture 2. Tradition “Restless experientialist” 3. Reason “Entrenched intellectuals” 4. Experience

  3. Mysticism “The mystic believes that there is an absolute and that he or she can enjoy an unmediated link to this absolute in a super rational experience.” Winfield Corduan, Mysticism: An Evangelical Option? • “Purgation” repentance 2. “Illumination” study of scripture 3. “Union” being in the presence of God The Mystic Path Normal Living Action Union with God Contemplation

  4. Augustine Bernard of Clairvaux Gregory the Great Francis of Assisi Bonaventure Nicolas of Cusa

  5. Scholasticism ‘the Queen of the Sciences” Scholastic theology was the way that theology was done in the Middle Ages Philosophy was a valuable asset to Christian theology • Demonstrate the reasonableness of faith • Enabled theologians to systematically arrange and order theology Plato Aristotle

  6. The Universities and the Rise of Scholasticism al-Azhar University 970

  7. Univesitas scholarium the whole body of students University of Bologna Universitas magistrorum the whole body of teachers University of Paris 2 fold method of teaching: Lecture Theology Law Medicine Arts Disputation

  8. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) Proslogion ‘I believe in order to know’ Ontological argument for God “God is that then which nothing greater can be conceived” Cur deus homo (Why God became Man)

  9. Peter Abelard (1079-1142) ‘The doubting Peter?’ Sic et non (Yes and No)

  10. Peter Lombard (1100-1160) Four Books of the Sentences God, creation and Old Testament Salvation through Christ Sacraments and last things ‘When Augustine says anything clearly, Lombard obscures it. And if there was anything slightly contaminated in Augustine, Lombard corrupts it” First to define the 7 sacraments

  11. Bonaventure Retracing the Arts to Theology “The manifold wisdom of God, which is clearly revealed in sacred scripture, lies hidden in all knowledge and in all nature”

  12. Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253)

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