Remember, if you missed Friday, you missed Quiz #7..and will want to do a "mission" to make up for it.
Quiz #8 is Wednesday. It will say, "For each of the four parties, what was their approach to culture? Then, from what you have learned about the Amish Friday and today (and from your reading of 'Amish Grace'), how would you summarize in your own words their approach to culture? Which of the four parties are they most like, as far as approach to culture?"
The answer to the first four is found below, copied from the 2/3 post
Since we have spent so much time discussing the various "parties" of Jesus day, it is helpful to our discussion of culture to hear how one writer views and succinctly characterizes each group's approach to culture:----------------------
- "Pharisees separated from culture
- Sadducees blended into the culture
- Zealots ruled over culture/misused it
- Essenes ignored culture....
The Pharisees were sectarian, developing an unending number of laws to separate themselves from the common people.The Sadducees were syncretists, compromising their beliefs in order to blend into the culture.The Zealots misused culture as they attempted to usher in God’s kingdom through the use of force.The Essenes ignored culture altogether, retreating from society where they could seek mystical encounters with God in monkish privacy...
And so we see that sectarians love God but fail to love their neighbors,And so we see that sectarians
love God but fail to love their neighbors,
while syncretists love their neighbors,
but fail to love God."
Quiz #9 is Friday the 13th, and will say, "See chart. Summarize the two theories of the atonement we discussed on 4/2" See bottom half of today's post for chart and answers.
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Amish terms that will be on the final:
- Meidung: shunning, excommunication, (see "shunning" in "Amish Grace" index p 246) and Longer definition here
- Ordnung: rules of the community ,(see "Amish Grace, p 205) longer definiiuon heren
- Gelassenheit (see "Amish Grace, pp. 100-101): submission to God's will., Longer definition here
- Hochmut : pride, arrogance, showiness ((see "Amish Grace,: last paragraph p, 93, the ultimate sin, Longer definiiuon )
- Rumspringa ; temporary season where Amish teens are allowed to "rebel" before they decided to adopt Amish life as their own. ((see "Amish Grace, p. 206 AND see video below, and Longer definiiuon )
Yankovich's parody of "Amish Paradise"
As usual with SUBVERSION/SATIRE, it makes more sense if you know the original song being subverted: "Gangsta's Paradise" (here)
Here is the video we watched on Amish teens and Rumspringa.
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CULTURE:
Since we all live in the world, how our group/party views the "outside" culture is a huge issue.
Seee how eacdh of tehe parties of Jesus' day responded to culture at top of today's post.
Another tension foir Amish is similar to a Mennoinite qiuestion, and a Jewish question:
Is being Jewish (or Amish) a matther of ethnicity or choice/faith?
The answer is a fuzzy set/marker trick.
Officially, it could go either way.
But often the group defines it by ethnicity.
Offiicially, someone of any cultture, race can convert convert and become a member of Judaism/Amish faith.
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If you want to learn more, here is a 6part series on the Amish :
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--Theories of atonement
Ken (Mr. Squeaky Shoes" asks people at Manchester North shopping center:
What is Good Friday? Why is it good?
What is atonement?
At-one-ment: How does Jesus' death and resurrection make us ":at one" with God?
Here are the first two theories:- 'Christus Victor" (CV on the chart); Jesus death trumped/triumphed over the devil. see below
- "Marry Me" (MM on the chart): Jesus death was a wedding proposal, based on imagery in the Passover liturgy. see below.
1)CHRISTUS VICTOR:
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--Christus Victor (Christ the Victor) is a view of the atonement taken from the title of Gustaf Aulén’s groundbreaking book, first published in 1931, where he drew attention back to the early church’s Ransom theory. In Christus Victor, the atonement is viewed as divine conflict and victory over the hostile powers that hold humanity in subjection. Aulén argues that the classic Ransom theory is not so much a rational systematic theory as it is a drama, a passion story of God triumphing over the powers and liberating humanity from the bondage of sin. As Gustav Aulén writes, “the work of Christ is first and foremost a victory over the powers which hold mankind in bondage: sin, death, and the devil.”[1]Christus Victor
The Ransom Theory was predominant in the early church and for the first thousand years of church history and supported by all Greek Church Fathers from Irenaeus to John of Damascus. To mention only the most important names Origen, Athanasius, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom. The Christus Victor view was also dominant among the Latin Fathers of the Patristic period including Ambrose, Augustine, Leo the Great, and Gregory the Great.
A major shift occurred when Anselm of Canterbury published his Cur Deos Homo around 1097 AD which marks the point where the predominate understanding of the atonement shifted from the ransom theory to the Satisfaction Doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church and subsequently the Protestant Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church still holds to the Ransom or Christus Victor view. This is built upon the understanding of the atonement put forward by Irenaeus, called “recapitulation”.[2]
As the term Christus Victor indicates, the idea of “ransom” should not be seen in terms (as Anselm did) of a business transaction, but more of a rescue or liberation of humanity from the slavery of sin. Unlike the Satisfaction or Penal-substitution views of the atonement rooted in the idea of Christ paying the penalty of sin to satisfy the demands of justice, the Christus Victor view is rooted in the incarnation and how Christ entered into human misery and wickedness and thus redeemed it. Irenaeus called this “Recapitulation” (re-creation). As it is often expressed: “Jesus became what we are so that we could become what he is”. LINK
More:
- "Christus Victor" atonement (see p, 148 of "Teaching the Bible through popular culture and the
Anabaptism, Christus Victor, Postmodernity
Where else does a "Christus Victor": show up in literature/film?
C.S. Lewis, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" :
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See:
The Beautiful Victory of the Cross and the Table of Aslan
---2)"MARRY ME":
In the VanDer Laan video that we watched most of today, "Roll Away the Stone," we learned that:
When a couple was to be married, the fathers would negotiate the bride price. Once the bargain was struck, the groom would offer a cup of wine to his bride to be — declaring his love and pledging his life. She could either accept it or not. If she accepted the cup, she accepted the offer and pledged her love and life to him.
The Passover meal has four cups of wine. The third cup is the cup of redemption (or salvation). The host says a prayer and then passes the cup. “Blessed are you, oh God, king of the universe, creator of this fruit of the vine. He then declared this cup the blood of the new covenant — a new promise, in essence offering a pledge of his life.
When we take communion, God is declaring his love to us, and when we take the cup, we are returning his offer — promising our love and lives to God.
The bride-price paid by Jesus was high — his very life. It was so high that he asked God to let this “cup” pass from him.
The Lord’s Supper is a meal with God after a fellowship offering — it’s eating a meal with God. LINK
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