Weekendaway 2017 Session Booklet – Being Human – Peter Jensen

Secular  Christian
The individual emphasised  The individual in community
Mankind is autonomous  Mankind is other person centred
 Naturalism is assumed  Supernaturalism is assumed
 Truth is relative, it all depends  Truth is universal
 There are many paths  There is one path
 Good and bad is relative  Good and evil are absolutes
 Mankind has evolved  Mankind was created
 Mankind is basically good  Mankind is fallen
 Mankind is progressing  Mankind is rebelling, under judgment
Heterosexuality is not normative  Heterosexuality is normative
Marriage is consensual and pluriform  Marriage is heterosexual/ normative
Reason is final  Revelation is final
Religion is private  Religion is also public
The State is neutral  The State is non-neutral

 

Acknowledgements:

Professor Rex Adhar

 

   

SESSION 2             Genesis I                   The Birth of Culture

 

Culture

Nature is a given: Culture describes development of nature.

Our development skills go back to _____________:

  1. We are crowned with ________ and ________ as those in God’s image
  1. Nature is a creation – it ________ to God
  1. We are to inhabit it, rule it together, for our ________ and his ________
  1. Within the ________ of creation stands the moral challenge of __________ and the spiritual reality of our relationship with God
  1. The naming of the ________ – a hint of what may have been.

Failure

Adam is our ____________ Head; Adam and Eve our first ___________.

A moral and spiritual ________, so that at each point distorted by sin:

  1. Twisted __________ with God, with each other and with the creation
  1. The Consequences –
  • ___________
  • ___________
  • ___________
  • ___________
  1. The Continuity
  • ___________ – sex and birth; marriage
  • ___________
  • ___________ – cities, trades, arts, science

Future

We live __________, with a new Head, Jesus Christ, living in this world as those who belong to the next. What now of our cultural task?

  1. Work and its products are a __________, not an __________
  1. We offer our work as __________
  1. Work provides us with an opportunity to _______________
  1. Work is not the means of __________, __________ or __________
  1. Work is __________ to paid employment
  1. We __________ work, but we do not __________ work

Conclusion: the folly of ______________

 

 

SESSION 3             Genesis II                  The Gift of Community

 

Aloneness

Was he __________?

Did it matter?

Mateship

          __________ was this gift?

__________ was this gift?

__________ was this gift?

Bonding

          The mandate to rule was __________ ___________ to both

The __________ of this relationship even over the closest human bond

The means of ________ in the exclusive and reciprocal sexual bond

The ________________ in the relationship of ‘separates’ and the children of both

Alienation

          The __________ of order in the serpent’s approach to Eve

The relational ____________ in the experience of the world and of others

The coming of death is the pain of ___________

Reconciliation

The __________ comes

______ saves – not tolerance

______ gives true freedom

________ works through love

Thus:

          __________ is not everything – __________ is everything

__________ is everywhere – __________ is God’s power

___________ really matter – __________ really matters

 

 

SESSION 4             Genesis III                 The Promise of Justice

 

 Closure

___________

___________

__________

Meaning

          Making a difference – our longing to __________

The destruction of ___________

Sin

          A category without _________

A _____________ reflection

A __________which undoes us

Can you be __________?

Salvation

          The __________ of God

The __________ of God

The __________ of God

The __________ of God

Hope

          The __________ of promises

The birth of ______, _______ and ______

Utopianism and Human Life

          ___________

___________

 

 

SESSION 5             Genesis IV                 The Power of Words

 

Babel then and now

          Cultural ______

The idolatrous ________

The desire for _________

The __________ of God on their speech

Words

Good words of ________, ________ and ________, _____ and ________, ________

Evil words of _________ and _______, of ______, of ______, of _________

Of ________, of _______ and _______, of _______, of _______, of _________, of _________

The word

          Who _________

Who _________

Who _________

Who _________

Who _________

Who _________

My words

          In the _________

In the _________

In the _________

 

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