Wisdom Lecture #13 Diane Jacobson
Wisdom, Experience, Jesus, Canon,
and
Other Questions to Carry Us Forward
I.
Four Themes of Wisdom in Paul (Romans and
I Corinthians) --
Ellie Roscher and
A. Wisdom vs Folly -- Rom. 1:22-23; I Cor. 1:8
B. Wisdom as Advice -- Rom. 2:17-24; 6:12; I Cor. 6;
10 and all over
C. Spirit as Wisdom -- Rom. 8:26; I Cor. 2: 4, 12; 12
D. God is God and We are Not -- Rom. 9:19ff; 11:33-36; 14; I Cor. 2:16
E. And also….Wisdom is Christ Crucified
II. Effects of the identification of Jesus and Wisdom on Christology and Theology
A. What Incarnation in Jesus bring to Wisdom
B. What Wisdom brings to brings to Christology
1. Who Jesus is -- “The Rabbi”
2. What Jesus says
3. How Jesus says it
4. Jesus and creation, law, discipleship
C. The Power of Images
1.
www.actd.ca/3-ferment/
ferm03-1/CLbetterDoor.htm
2. Other
III. Back to thoughts of Theology and Ethics
IV. Adding up the Various Dimensions of Wisdom: Do they hold together?
V. Insights, Thoughts, Inspirational Comments, and Learnings from your Papers
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If you were to add
additional wisdom works or topics to this course (like Part 2 of the course),
what would those be and why?
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Granted many of the
wisdom writings show up in similar forms in other religious traditions. Now bring this information into a small group
study at church XYZ where some of the participants find this information
distressing and others think it would be exciting to study goddess worship and
Christian teachings (or, from one extreme to the other of reactions to wisdom literature).
Could you discuss how you would explain the theological implications wisdom
texts for the members of this study group?
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Does the Holy Spirit
= Wisdom for today?
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Do we need to
reconcile the maleness of Jesus and the femininity of Woman Wisdom?
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If Sophia is
basically Greek for wisdom, why has it become such a divisive name for some?
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Is wisdom outside
the Trinity or is wisdom one of the characteristics of the Trinity?
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How do we identify
biblical Wisdom with today’s wisdom?