THEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Christian Anthropology, Watchmaker Analogy, Paul Tillich
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To work through faith from a jesuit perspective. Largest male religious order of the roman catholic church. Can be priests, scholastics (students to become priests), brothers (not priests), and novices. An academic discipline that comprises methods of intellectual discourse that present analyses of, and responses to, the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Western thinking reduces de-colonized people as homogeneous and ignores the differences of such cultures. Addresses identity and interactions in the development of a society. Deals with the power dynamics b/w powerful and powerless. Best intentions can lead to drastic consequences. Russell explores the idea that coincidences = god much like the watchmaker analogy, a teleological argument (study of design or purpose in natural phenomena) As with a watch, the complexity of anything necessitates a designer. Deus vult: god lines up events perfectly, willing it to happen ( god wills it ) The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Faith requires risk, requires change, requires doubt.
