Lecture 1
1-Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV)
~"Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

2-What are the four categories of Ethics?
~Descriptive Ethics
~Normative Ethics
~Special Ethics
~Metaethics

3-What is Christian Ethics?
~Christian Ethics is a reflection on moral conduct in light of Scripture.

4-What are the three Ethical Perspectives?*
~Normative
~Exestential
~Situational

Lecture 2
1-2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
~"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

2-What is a norm?
~A norm is a standard.

3-What is hermeneutics?
~Hermeneutics is the philosophy or methology of interpretation.

4-What are some "problems" with interpreting Scripture? (choose 3)
~Redemptive historical process
~Some scripture has cultural application
~Scripture is not always an example
~Conflicting appeals to scripture in history
~Modern ethical problems were unforeseable to Biblical authors

5-What are the four important principles of investegation we discussed in class?
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6-Define genre
~genus, kind, sort, style (from dictionary)

7-Name the three levels of context we discussed in class
~context of book
~context of
~immediate context

8-What are the three uses of the moral law?
~Civil (barracade)
~Pedagogical (mirror)
~Normative (yardstick)

9-What are creation ordinances?
~commandments given to man in a state of innocence

***(couldn't find my notes on this lecture... so the two i don't have answered, i don't know.  sorry)***

Lecture 3
1-Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV)
~"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

2-According to Duma, is it possible to perscribe a Christian style of conduct for all Christians?
~no

3-What are some things that Christians to similar to non-Christians?

4-What are three characteristics of the Christian ghetto?

5-What is the difference between a Christian Morality and a Christian lifestyle?
~Christian morality is motivated by faith in God

Lecture 4
1-John 13:35 (NKJV)
~"By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

2-Who said "love and do as you please"?
~Aristotle

3-Who is Joseph Fletcher and what did he write?
~he attempted to give a Christian face to situational ethics.
~he wrote Situational Ethics and The Ethics of Genetic Control

4-What is an intrinsic value?
~an independentally possesed quality of being good regardless of the circumstances

5-Know the three types of love we discussed in class.
~agape-love of surrender
~philia-love for the ordering of life
~eros-love of desire and affection, desire to create

Lecture 5
1-Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV)
~"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?"

2-What is synteresis?
~the infallable, inner core of the conscience

3-What is the primary failure of making an ethical system on the conscience?
~it fails to take the corruption from the fall of man into consideration

4-What is the conscience called in the OT?
~the heart

5-What two influential thinkers helped to "dethrone" the conscience?
~Nietzsche
~Freud

6-What are adiaphora?
~morally neutral actions

7-Why does the author of your textbook prefer using the words "permissible things" rather than "adiaphora"?
~he says that nothing is neutral; "rather everything is good."

8-Who were the Pietists?
~The Pietists over emphasized the situational perspective.  According to the Pietists, nothing was adiaphora. Only those actions that have God's honor as their immediate goal and are performed through faith, can be called "good".

Lecture 6
1-1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV)
~"No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it."

2-What is meant by "conflicts of duty"?
~Two specific commands that cannot be similtaneously obeyed

3-Give an example from the Bible to illustrate that not all commandments bear an absolute character.
~You are told to obey your parents, but when they tell you to do something against God, you must disobey them.

4-What is "tragedy" in Ethics?
~when you are forced to sin

5-What is a mendacium officiosum?
~a lie used in rendering service to another

Lecture 7
1-2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)
~"The Lord is not slack in concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance."

2-What is compromise in ethics?
~the necessary acceptance of less that what one may strive for on the basis of God's commands

3-What is an example of when compromise is necessary?
~divorce (on Biblical reasons)

4-What are four characteristics of genuine compromise?
~matter of conviction
~element of necessity
~patience
~personal suffering

Lecture 8
1-Ephesians 4:11-12 (NKJV)
~"And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ."

2-Define casuistry
~The study of cases teaching us how we should apply general rules to specific cases

3-Why must situation etics completely disregard any positive use of casuistry?
~Every situation ethic denies the existence of any general rule that is falid for everyone

4-Why does casuistry normally have a bad name?
~The tithing examples of the Parisees

5-What is tutiorism?
~Choose the safest path

6-What is probabiliorism?
~Choose either path, both are equal

7-What is probabilism?
~You could choose another path if in probability it could be called good

8-What is laxism?
~If any renouned author says it's good, do it

9-What is the difference between "specializing" the command of God and "splintering" it?
~saying what it is (specializing) vs. dividing it into different parts (splintering)

10-Douma does not like the connotations that "casuistry" has.  What term does he suggest we use instead?
~moral counsel

Lecture 9
1-What does Douma mean by "spirituality"?
~ascetics-the exercise of, and reflection upon our fellowship with the triune God

2-What is ascetics and whi is it important to ethics?
~"ethics is a serious endeavor that will avoid any spirit of oppressiveness and narrow-mindedness as long as it is nurtured by a good spirituality [or ascetics]."