History of Christian Thought Study Guide for Placher Chapters 1 & 2

From Placher Ch 1 -

1. Review Placher's limitations and warnings

2. Review the Basic Themes - have a sense of what each of these dichotomies is about:

Issue of humanity and divinity of Christ

Reason and Revelation

Works and Grace

Spirit and Structure

Church and State

From Placher Ch 2

monotheism

uniqueness of Israel

Yahweh

prophets

exile

Ezra

resurrection of the dead

Jewish sects

Zealots

Pharisees

shift to idea of God as universal God

emergence of "Judaism"

Jewish apocalypticism

"Messiah"

"Son of Man"

Jewish messianism

Hillel: "What is hateful to yourself do not do to your neighbor" (29).