Final c0m exam 2023 questions and correct answer

When theology is seen to be an exercise in Holy Reason - correct answers One must also view theology as an activity undertaken "in prayerful dependence upon the Holy Spirit...as an exercise in the fellowship of the saints, serving the confession of the holy people of God". Te Deum Laudamus - correct answers Alongside the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed, Luther identifies this as the third symbol or creed of the Christian faith. Theology is... - correct answers faithful and rational reflection upon the gospel John Locke - correct answers argued that "All the life and power of true religion consist in the inward and full persuasion of the mind". Roger Olson does not believe that... - correct answers Contemporary Christianity is in fine condition (it is seriously and intellectually engaged with matters of doctrine and stands at a distance from uncritical religious activity). critical reflection - correct answers is a fitting description of theology as a proper intellectual task Migliore does not believe that... - correct answers genuine faith avoids questions because it knows that ideas may actually undermine belief in God Luther denies the claim that in order to acquire God's grace - correct answers we must be committed to doing the good that is in us. a theology of glory - correct answers calls evil good and good evil Barth regards theology as - correct answers a means of taking rational trouble over the mystery of God. Theologians identify the following as possible sources for theological knowledge - correct answers Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience Spiritual Theology - correct answers This is not one of the branches of theology addressed by Migliore. He does address Historical, Biblical, and Practical theology. Christocentric theology, Method of Correlation, and the Praxis approach - correct answers are the three important types of theological method identified by Migliore The approach to theology in this course - correct answers Evaluation of the question: "What must one know in order to best understand the faith?" This excludes theologies that ask, "what must someone know in order to come to faith?" and theologies evaluated in terms of whether or not a non-Christian could understand its claims. Nachdenken - correct answers Theology is thinking in the wake of God. It is not "running ahead of God", "acting (praxis) not thinking", or "creative and abstract." Trust/Fiducia - correct answers In contrast to Enlightenment doubt (cf. Clifford) Luther and Barth speak of faith in this way. Apologetic Theology - correct answers According to Gonzalez and Perez this form of theology is most concerned with defending the faith and building a bridge for nonbelievers. Neglect of Theology - correct answers According to Migliore, when this happens, the community of faith risks either drifting aimlessly, or being captured by spirits alien to its own. Systematic Theology - correct answers Migliore and our lecture reminds us that this is a discipline that seeks to follow the consistent patterns of God's action revealed in Scripture. He or she deserves to be called a theologian - correct answers Luther says this of he or she who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and the cross. "faith seeking understanding" - correct answers According to Gonzalez and Perez, one of the most viable forms of theology as contemplation is connected with the work of Anselm and expressed in this phrase When Migliore argues that theology should be "systematic" - correct answers he has in mind the fact that because God is faithful, there are patterns and continuities in the acts of God attested in Scripture that give shape and coherence to theological reflection True or False: Migliore and Husbands believe that Christian theology is a disparate bundle of symbols and doctrines from which one can select at will and organize into any pattern one pleases. - correct answers False True or False: James Cone argues that theological claims only have meaning when they reflect the inseparable bond between our trust in God's grace and our call to God's service (i.e., the Church living in the world on the basis of what it proclaims". - correct answers True The Latin phrase "Veni Creator Spiritus" means: - correct answers Come, Creator Spirit! Christian theology is... - correct answers "taking rational trouble over the mystery" Psalm 19:1 ("The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork") - correct answers Is generally used in support of general revelation Trinity and Incarnation - correct answers According to Aquinas these doctrines could not be known with the use of natural reason. The Bible was written in order to guide the people of God in paths of obedience - correct answers According to Gonzalez and Perez this fact is crucial to recognize about the Bible. It was not intended to be read in bits and pieces, to give us INFORMATION rather than to be used for our FORMATION, or meant to be primarily read alone and in silence. The First Vatican Council - correct answers Was optimistic regarding the possibility that God's existence could be demonstrated and known by human reason apart from special revelation The meaning of special revelation - correct answers "the knowledge of God may well be a disturbing and disruptive reality in our lives." Revelation - correct answers According to Migliore, this word refers first of all to Jesus and not the Bible. Karl Barth's three forms of the Word of God - correct answers revealed (Jesus Christ), written (Scripture), and proclaimed (church preaching) John 8:12 ("I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.") - correct answers This verse leads Barth to speak of the existence of true words of God spoken outside the Church, and he does so with the phrases lesser lights and secular parables. noetic effects of sin - correct answers theologians use this phrase in order to express the claim that sin effects our reason and ability to properly identify God - we often end up creating idols. The kind of knowledge we can acquire from the natural order - correct answers Gonzalez and Perez point out that when we stop to think about this kind of knowledge it is not absolutely clear and undeniable. Pastoral Epistles - correct answers This is not one of the three main sections of the Old Testament. The three main sections are: Torah/Law, Prophets, and Writings sola scriptura - correct answers This phrase is explicitly related to the "Reformed Scripture Principle." It is not related to the Roman Catholic teaching on Scripture, the need to read Scripture alone, or the need to "fly solo" when living out the Christian life. interpreting the Bible ecclesially - correct answers Migliore relates this to reading, hearing, and interpreting Scripture WITHIN the horizon of the faith and practice of the church Apostolic Authority - correct answers This was the primary criterion used to attest which books of the New Testament period were to become part of the canon. It was not arbitrary whim and luck, visions and dreams, or that St. Paul offered the church an official "list" of books. External Support - correct answers Calvin did not believe Scripture needed this. He believed that Scripture has it's authority from God not the church, that the church is grounded in Scripture, and that the witness of the Holy Spirit is stronger than all proof. Marcion - correct answers He sought to establish his own version of the Bible; one that did not include the Old Testament, and whose New Testament only included the Gospel of Luke and ten Pauline letters out of which he deleted any substantial reference to Judaism. Apostle - correct answers If you have seen the risen Christ, been commissioned by Christ, and bear faithful witness to the revelation and redemptive work of the triune God then you have the measure of what it means to be an apostle. Being a charismatic leader with cool glasses and an effective preaching ministry is NOT an established Christian measure of what it means to be an apostle. Gnosticism - correct answers This arose in the Mediterranean world and the Near East and evolved into a type of religious dualism (associated with Manichaeism) believing that reality could be divided into two hostile or antagonistic principles; one represented the good, the other evil. The Holy Spirit - correct answers Migliore insists that the Holy Spirit uses Scripture to relate us to God and to transform our life. Believing in the Bible - correct answers According to Miglire, Christians ought NOT to do this, but rather, should believe in the living God attested (witnessed to) by the Bible. A necessary improvement upon the Bible - correct answers According to the lecture, Christian doctrine is NOT this--it is not responsible for making a messy text clear and understandable. Gospel of Thomas - correct answers This shows us that gnostics had a profoundly negative view of women and the body. 1 Peter 2:20-21 - correct answers These verses remind us that no prophecy came by human will but rather men and women were moved by God to speak. John Calvin - correct answers He insists that the highest proof of Scripture lies in the fact that God speaks in it, and it is the inward testimony of the Holy Spirit that convinces us of this truth. Unitarianism of the Spirit - correct answers This is NOT one of the distortions or heresies against which classical trinitarian doctrine fought. It did fight against subordinationism, modalism, and tritheism. Plato - correct answers Justin Martyr shares with him the belief that divine perfection required immutability. Arius - correct answers For this individual the Son is of a similar but not the same substance. Nicaea, Alexander of Alexandria, and Origen all affirmed that they were of the same substance. Human Speech - correct answers Hilary of Poitiers, believed that this was not powerful enough to tell us what God is. Words cannot fully express the reality of God. Hilary of Poitiers - correct answers He shows us that while we can draw a distinction in kind between the Father and the Son, at the same time, we must say that they are both One, God of God. An arcane, speculative doctrine - correct answers According to Migliore, rightly understood, the doctrine of the Trinity is not this; but rather, it is an understanding of God that is appropriate to and congruent with the Gospel message. Classical Niceno-Constantinopolitan teaching - correct answers The crux of this teaching is that God is "one in essence, distinguished in three persons." Karl Barth - correct answers According to him, the Triune God loves in freedom and only this God can be worshipped and served as the ultimate power in full confidence and total trust. The Councils of Nicea (325) and Constantinople (381) - correct answers These Councils are crucial in the development of the classical doctrine of the Trinity. Alexander of Alexandria - correct answers He did NOT believe that there was (a time) when the Son was not. Arius did believe this.