Week Four–Who is God? (Markey)–February 16
READ: Who is God: Catholic Perspectives through the Ages by John Markey (Chapter One) God: Scriptural  and Cultural Conceptions, pp. 15-46.

ANSWER:

What is the difference between a contract and a covenant, as the latter term is used in the Hebrew Scriptures? What does this distinction imply about the relationship between God and the Hebrew people?               
What are the attributes of God revealed by Jesus in the Gospels, and how are those attributes developed in the Creed?
How did Christian culture both assimilate and critique Hellenistic culture?
What are two approaches to understanding the Christian doctrine of the Trinity?
How did the Cappadocians and St. Augustine represent two different approaches not only to the doctrine of the Trinity but also to Christian theology as a whole?