Christian Ethics Final Exam Review
QUESTIONS WELL ANSWERED
An Ecclesial Ethic will assume ....
A) the use of the state to control other people's lives
B) that people act on the basis of rational persuasion
C) the attempt to abstract moral principles form the Bible
D) participation in life in the Body of Christ - ANS ✔✔
Reinhold Niebuhr primarily views humans in terms of the biblical account that we are ....
A) the objects of God's love
B) inherently good
C) created in the image of God
D) avatars of Brahmin - ANS ✔✔C) created in the image of God
According to Niebuhr, all of human history is ....
A) pulled toward the infinity of the Primal Matrix
B) the arena of God's activity
C) marked by the mixture of good & evil
D) the will-to-power - ANS ✔✔C) marked by the mixture of good and evil
,For Niebuhr, justice as the approximation of the ideal of love, finds expression in the balance of
____ & _____.
A) freedom/equality
B) perfection/imperfection
C) harmony/grace
D) love/mercy - ANS ✔✔A) freedom/equality
For Niebuhr a Christian account of justice best finds concrete expression in ......
A) the Church
B) democratic institutions
C) the family
D) Imperial Rome - ANS ✔✔B) democratic institutions
If in Genesis 3, Adam and Eve separate from God, in Genesis 4, .....
A) God cast out Satan
B) the Garden is turned into desert
C) the Flood follows
D) Cain kills his brother Abel - ANS ✔✔D) Cain kills his brother Able
According to Richard Hays, "Paul speaks only to the community of faith; he articulates no basis
for a general ethics applicable to those outside the church."
A) true
B) false - ANS ✔✔A) true
, Paul offers thanks in Ephisians 1:15-16 for his readers' faith in the Lord Jesus and their ....
A) their endurance under persecution
B) love for all the saints (fellow believers)
C) wisdom
D) giftedness - ANS ✔✔B) love for all the saints (fellow believers)
Christ's sovereignty over all the powers described in Ephesians 1:20-22 in metaphorically
described in terms of Christ being ...
A) the true emperor
B) Shepard
C) their "Head"
D) the Shining Star - ANS ✔✔C) their "Head"
According to Ephesians 1:23, Christ's sovereignty over the powers is presently embodied ...
A) in the Church
B) in republican institutions
C) in each individual believer
D) in whoever is presently the emperor - ANS ✔✔A) in the Church
In the former life described in Ephesians 2:11-12 is one of ....
A) being excluded from the people of God
QUESTIONS WELL ANSWERED
An Ecclesial Ethic will assume ....
A) the use of the state to control other people's lives
B) that people act on the basis of rational persuasion
C) the attempt to abstract moral principles form the Bible
D) participation in life in the Body of Christ - ANS ✔✔
Reinhold Niebuhr primarily views humans in terms of the biblical account that we are ....
A) the objects of God's love
B) inherently good
C) created in the image of God
D) avatars of Brahmin - ANS ✔✔C) created in the image of God
According to Niebuhr, all of human history is ....
A) pulled toward the infinity of the Primal Matrix
B) the arena of God's activity
C) marked by the mixture of good & evil
D) the will-to-power - ANS ✔✔C) marked by the mixture of good and evil
,For Niebuhr, justice as the approximation of the ideal of love, finds expression in the balance of
____ & _____.
A) freedom/equality
B) perfection/imperfection
C) harmony/grace
D) love/mercy - ANS ✔✔A) freedom/equality
For Niebuhr a Christian account of justice best finds concrete expression in ......
A) the Church
B) democratic institutions
C) the family
D) Imperial Rome - ANS ✔✔B) democratic institutions
If in Genesis 3, Adam and Eve separate from God, in Genesis 4, .....
A) God cast out Satan
B) the Garden is turned into desert
C) the Flood follows
D) Cain kills his brother Abel - ANS ✔✔D) Cain kills his brother Able
According to Richard Hays, "Paul speaks only to the community of faith; he articulates no basis
for a general ethics applicable to those outside the church."
A) true
B) false - ANS ✔✔A) true
, Paul offers thanks in Ephisians 1:15-16 for his readers' faith in the Lord Jesus and their ....
A) their endurance under persecution
B) love for all the saints (fellow believers)
C) wisdom
D) giftedness - ANS ✔✔B) love for all the saints (fellow believers)
Christ's sovereignty over all the powers described in Ephesians 1:20-22 in metaphorically
described in terms of Christ being ...
A) the true emperor
B) Shepard
C) their "Head"
D) the Shining Star - ANS ✔✔C) their "Head"
According to Ephesians 1:23, Christ's sovereignty over the powers is presently embodied ...
A) in the Church
B) in republican institutions
C) in each individual believer
D) in whoever is presently the emperor - ANS ✔✔A) in the Church
In the former life described in Ephesians 2:11-12 is one of ....
A) being excluded from the people of God
