RELG 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Historical Jesus, Book Of Leviticus, Carbon Cycle

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 270
• Professor: David Goodin

Document Summary

Cobb agrees with white (not useful way to talk about natural world) Chapter (cid:883)(cid:883): john cobb jr. (cid:498)protestant theology and de(cid:499) Sees four issues that historically may have made sense but don"t work today. (cid:886)(cid:524) the world of nature (cid:498)did not even appear on our radar screens [at divinity school](cid:499) (cid:884)(cid:883)(cid:887) 1) his relationship to deep ecology (not for paper) Thinks his ideas are better than de and gives 5 examples 219-227. Identifies one particular villain and one hero: kant and schweitzer. Brief history of protestantism and its relation to process theology. The birth of protestantism: martin luther=augustinian monk (catholic) Noticed a fight in galatians between paul and peter/james. Took as inspiration to oppose the pope: protestant. Protest against certain non-scriptural catholic teachings e. g. idea of purgatory and papal indulgences. Get out of purgatory through papal indulgences (repenting for sins, praying but also paying the church) Free will only results in sin after the fall.