RELS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Christus Victor, Paul Tillich, Penal Substitution
1 Oct 2017
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Penal substitution: jesus being the substitute for our penalties, god"s judgement and wrath and well as forgiveness. Christus victor: christ the victor, god and satan ghting spiritual battle jesus" resurrection caused god to win. Moral exemplar: abelard based on sainti cation theory, be like jesus. The rm of religion is culture and the substance of culture is religion . Correlation: looking for the questions that the culture is asking and nd answers within the christian tradition. Heidigger an entire way of thinking which recovers being in the face of modern. To be is to be nite, caught between polarities of freedom and destiny, individuality and participation, rules and creativity. Where do we get the power to resist non-being? from our ultimate concern . Faith, for tillich, is precisely being grasped by this ultimate concern and drawn toward self-transcendence. God is not a supreme being, but the power of being or being-itself .
