Quotes (Theme 3)

Question 1

What quotes can be used to support whether he UK can be called a ‘Christian Country’?

Answer 1

• “Britain is now regularly spoken of as a secular country with a secular state, yet still has an established church”
• “The centre of British society is gradually shifting away from Christianity, but remains deeply coloured by it”

Question 2

What quotes support Beliefs conflicting with laws of the country and perceived challenges to Christianity?

Answer 2

• “Christians and those if other faiths should be free tow ear the symbols of their own religion without discrimination”
• people “shouldn’t suffer discrimination due to religious beliefs”

Question 3

What quotes support the relationship between religion and science?

Answer 3

• “…the designer himself, in order to be capable of designing , would have to be another complex entity of the kind that, in his turn, needs the same kind of explanation. It’s an evasion of responsibility because it involves the very thing it is supposed to be explaining”

Question 4

What quotes support the origins of life?

Answer 4

• “Since we are alive, eukaryotic and conscious, our planet has to be one of the intensely rare planets that has bridged all three gaps”

Question 5

What quotes support if there is a wall between science and religion?

Answer 5

• “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”

Question 6

What quotes support arguments against Dawkins?

Answer 6

• “The God delusion is a work of theatre, rather than scholarship”
• “Persistence of belief in God, when there is supposedly no God in which to believe”

Question 7

What quotes support exclusivism?

Answer 7

• Deutronomy 6:5 “Love the Lord your God with all your heat and with all your soul and with all your strength”
• Joshua 23:16 “If you violate the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other Gods and bow down to them, the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you”
• John 14:16 “I am the way and the truth of life. No one comes to the father except through me”
• Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved”

Question 8

What quotes from the Bible support condemnation?

Answer 8

• Matthew 13:50 “and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”

Question 9

What quotes support Karl Rahner?

Answer 9

• “…grace…allows surrounds man, even the sinner and the unbeliever, as the inescapable setting of his existence”

Question 10

What quotes support asceticism?

Answer 10

“If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me”

Question 11

What quotes support the key Christian principles in favour of stewardship?

Answer 11

• “Let us man mankind in our image…and let them have domain”
• “ God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good”
• “You shall not steal”
• “Those who oppress the poor insult their maker, but those who are kind to the needy honour him”

Question 12

What quotes can be used to support the Christian story of migration?

Answer 12

• “the alien who resides with you shall be to you the citizens among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the lord your God”

Question 13

What quotes support Pentecostalism in the U.k?

Answer 13

• ‘All of them were filled with thr Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the spirit gave them the ability’

Question 14

What quotes suppport Rosemary Radford Reuther?

Answer 14

• “…No part of the Church, no part of the world, is liberated until we are all liberated”
• “Your desire will b for your husband, and he will rule over you”
• “Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands”

Question 15

What quotes support the prophetic tradition?

Answer 15

• “woe to those who make iniquities decrees, who writes oppressive statues”
• “…He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed”

Question 16

What quotes support ‘a matter of life and death’?

Answer 16

• “now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves”