RELIG 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Designated Place, Rehoboam, Biblical Canon

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIG 380
• Professor: Clifford Anne

Document Summary

The four sources of christian ethics / catholic social thought: revelation - the bible, esp. Prophets & jesus (whose followers presumed he was a prophet): reason - natural law (a concept in human morality from thomas aquinas: 1225 - 1274: traditional - church teachings, experience - social analysis. The bible - major source for the social thought of jews and christians: judaism, when it closed its biblical canon (c 70 c. e. ), retained the teachings of the prophets in a special section of the hebrew bible that contains the books of the phoets: since the late 1940s, most catholic biblical scholars have interpreted the prophetic. What is the biblical prophet: beginning with moses (1200s b. c. e. , a prophet is a person called to be a spokesperson or messenger for god especially in times of trouble a looming crisis. Moses, a prophet with an extraordinary beginning: egypt"s slaves are oppressed - babies of slaves are killed.