Authority and Picking Books Flashcards
What was the Milgram obedience experiment about?
The experimenter explained that in this experiment one subject would be a teacher and read a list of word pairs to the other subject, who was called the learner. The learner was instructed to remember the word pairs.
In addition to conformity, societies tend to encourage people to follow…..
authority figures.
If the learner in the Milgram experiment got a word wrong what happended?
If the learner made a mistake, the teacher was instructed to give the learner a shock, first at 15 volts, and then move up a voltage every time the learner made a mistake.
If the teacher had qualms about continuing, they were reminded that the shocks were painful but not dangerous, and the experimenter went through a series of prods for each new instance of hesitation like?
- Please continue, or, Please go on.
2. The experiment requires that you continue
3. It is absolutely essential that you continue
4. You have no other choice, you must go on.
So, the closer and clearer the authority and the more remote the victim or the person is from the shock generator, the more what?
obedience
conformity and authority were used to pick what?
the selection of books for the New Testament.
First, eyewitness claims about Jesus are _____.
Rare
Indeed, only _____ Gospels are even purported to be by people who witnessed the events.
Two
True or False: The majority of the books of the NT are by a man who not only did not follow Jesus but loved him tremendously.
False
In the records we have, after he became a follower of Jesus, he frequently disagreed with the other followers about Jesus’ message.
Fact
Most of the NT is penned by a man whose interpretation of Jesus differed from that of the men who what?
followed him.
A final gathering of Christian leaders determined what was an
wasn’t an acceptable book.
Who said “Besides the canonical Scriptures, nothing shall be read in church under the name of divine scripture.”?
Synods of Hippo and Carthage (c. 400)
There were three loose criteria used to determine if a book was canonical: orthodoxy, apostolicity, and consensus.
Name them.
a. The “rule of faith”: a congruity between the text and the Christian tradition recognized as normative by the church.
b. Apostolicity
c. Continuous acceptance by the church at large. The longer the acceptance and by the wider the group of people, the more likely to be included.
For example, as Jerome said about the book of Hebrews, “It does not matter who is the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, for in any case it is the work of a church writer and is constantly read in the churches”
The Bible claims that scripture is inspired by whom?
God
