Gods Love: Foundation of Justice

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Chapter 1

• Gods Love Foundation of Justice

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Vision of a Just World

• Justice
• What all people are due as children of God made
  in his image
• Process ? ________________
• Goal ? a just world
• A ___________________
• Helps us to choose to do what is good
• ______________
• In a just society, all people
• ______________________
• Have access to what is needed to achieve this
  goal
• Work together to make _______________

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Salvation History and Justice

• _________________
• Term referring to the story of Gods relationship
  with humanity
• Gods _______________for the sake of humanity
• Creation
• The act by which God began all that exists
  outside of himself
• Beginning point of Salvation History
• Ongoing
• Continuing from Creation through the Scriptures,
  Salvation History extends _______________________
• God is still active and present today
• Social Justice
• Helps us to understand ________________________and
  how we are to impact the world in positive ways

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Creation

• Creation
• ___________ from nothing
• God created the world
• Good because it is of God
• Not perfect because it is not God
• Human Beings
• ________________________
• Justice implications
• All _________________because it is from God
• All races, ethnicities, and groups of people
• Respect for other aspects of creation
• Environment, animals, etc.
• Opportunity to share in ________________

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Humanity

• Image of God Imago Dei
• we are made _________
• we are made __________________________
• we are made _________
• _________________
• we live out our humanity with other people,
  creation, and God
• Free Will
• the ability to ___________________
• allows us to sin at times
• greater good of ____________

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Why is There Suffering?

• Key question for believers
• Answered in the _____________________
• Two Insights
• God is __________
• God cannot _________suffering
• Humans failing to love as God loves
• _________________

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The Fall Sin

• Story of the Fall
• _______________
• Original Sin
• The decision by the first humans to disobey God
• Sin
• An _______________________________________________
  _____ and injures solidarity with others
• Separates us from four groups
• Our own ___________________________________
• Sin Human Freedom
• ____________drew connection between sin and human
  freedom
• God gave humans free will so that they could
  choose right vs. wrong

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God and Suffering

• _______________________
• God does not cause evil directly, but allows evil
  to happen in order to bring about a greater good.
  
• Example of Sin of ADAM O Happy Fault...
  Leading to Jesus
• ______- death on a cross ? _______- salvation for
  humanity
• Grace A Source of Hope
• Grace the ______________________ sharing in
  Gods own life, love, and light.
• Grace is Gods free gift to us
• _____________________
• God as loving and active in the world as a source
  of hope for those who experience suffering

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Gods Covenant

• The Fall did not result in the end of Gods love
• God never stops loving humanity
• God reaches out to creation
• Covenant
• A _______________, or binding agreement, made
  between two parties
• Covenant with ______________
• The Stipulations (IfThen)
• If I make you the father of a nation
• If I give you the Promised Land
• Then I will be God to you and your family
• Then all males will be circumcised as a sign of
  the covenant

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The Exodus and Liberation

• _____________
• Departure of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery
  under the leadership of Moses
• Sinai Covenant
• God tells Moses that He has brought them safely
  out of Egypt
• If they hold up their part of the covenant they
  will be the Lords holy nation
• 10 Commandments
• _____________________
• Hearing the cries of the oppressed
• Involved in the lives of his people
• Source of hope for future _________________
• African slaves
• Civil Rights Movement
• Women
• Latin America

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Justice The Reign of Gods Goodness

• I Have Heard My Peoples Cry
• __________________________________________________
  ____________________________________
• Exodus
• freedom for ___________________who are suffering
• Became a source of hope for other peoples eg.
  American Slaves Latin Americans
• Idea of a Promised Land
• _______________________

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The Call to Justice

• Justice
• The establishment of ____________________among
  human beings, God, and creation so that life can
  flourish in the way that God intends
• ____________________original goodness and order
  lost in Fall
• Injustice
• Condition in which people have put __________in
  the way of _________________, thus preventing
  life from flourishing as God intends
• Mother Teresa of Calcutta
• One of the greatest examples of responding to
  suffering with ____________

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The Prophets

• Prophet
• One who has a ______________________and
  communicates a divinely inspired message
• Often lowly seemingly unimportant member of
  society
• Message
• ________________________________
• Connection between love of God and love of
  neighbor
• Show devotion to God through service to the poor
• _______________on both personal and societal
  levels
• Warned the people that they had strayed from true
  worship and forgotten their role as a light to
  the nations
• Became the __________________
• Importance still understood today

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Voices of Hope

• Prophets sent not just to criticize
• Foretold Gods ___________________________in
  humanity
• Isaiah
• Peace-filled community built on justice
  (Is586-11)
• New life will bloom out of destruction (421-4
  611-2)
• __________________________
• _______________
• Promise of a new covenant (Jer 3131-34)
• Hosea
• Israel is unfaithful and should be destroyed
• God will punish Israel, but will welcome it
  ____________________ _______________________
• Amos
• Practicing justice more important than
  ____________

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God so loved the world

• Jesus
• Name that means _____________
• 2nd person of the Trinity sent to
  _________________from sin
• Incarnation
• God _____________in the person of Jesus Christ
• The way that God showed a new compassion for
  people
• In becoming human Jesus raised the value of
  humanity
• ______________________
• Messiah
• __________________
• Restoration of communion and friendship with God

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The Compassionate Way of Jesus

• God is With Us
• ____________name meaning God is with us
• Matthews Infancy Narrative Isaiahs Suffering
  Servant
• Jesus faced _______________________________
• Jesus practiced _________________________
• St. Pauls Christology
• Key theological text about Jesus Christ
• (Philippians 25-11)

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Jesus and Suffering

• Jesus Analogy
• He was the ______________that would be destroyed
  and rebuilt in three days
• Mt 2661
• 1 Corinthians 316-17
• St. Paul uses Jesus analogy to comfort us and
  give us courage
• _________________
• The belief that all people have an intrinsic
  worth, because they are made in the image and
  likeness of God can never be taken away
• Christ raised human dignity by ________________

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Jesus Mission of Justice

• Preached the _________________
• Jesus worked to restore a world of loving
  relationships
• Luke 4 17-21
• _____________________________________
  _____________________________________
• See also Is 421-4 611-2
• Preached the Kingdom of God

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The Kingdom of God

• The way things are when ____________
  _________________________________
• idea not invented by Jesus
• Old Testament roots
• Jesus spin
• ______________________
• love God above all else love neighbor as self

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Love Turns the World Upside Down

• Love in the Christian context
• ______________ turning the world upside down
• ________________ in Palestine
• Pyramid with high priest on top and sinners on
  bottom
• Jesus transforming love turns it around
• Examples the __________, the _________________
• New relationships
• With women sinners sick people rich people
  and enemies

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Loves Surprise

• The Cross and the _____________
• Cross
• An ___________________became the ultimate symbol
  of Gods love
• Gods will
• Followed by Jesus to achieve our salvation
• _______________
• Follow the example of Christ
• Laying down our lives for others
• ____________________for believers
• Difficulty of being a Christian Christ-like