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Christian Beliefs Exam Flashcards

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Distinct, Christian teachings

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Doctrine

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“The entire inhabited earth”, God’s salvific love applies to the whole world

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Ecumenical

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The study of God (Logos: “Word, Reason”, Theos: “God”)

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Theology

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Christian teaching at the highest level of authority and trustworthiness

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Dogma

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Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience

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Wesleyan Quadrilateral

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“Scripture alone.”

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Sola Scriptura

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Early summaries of Christian doctrine

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Rule of Faith

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Statements of Christian beliefs

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Creeds

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Right Christian belief

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Orthodoxy

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Beliefs that have been rejected by the church as contrary to Scripture

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Hersey

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Intentional practices meant to help us grow deeper in the spiritual life.

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Spiritual Disciplines

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Ways God has provided for us to be put in touch with the grace that is always there

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Means of Grace

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God’s self-disclosure in creation and the human conscience

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General Revelation

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God’s specific self-revelation in the history of Israel, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, and Scripture

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Special Revelation

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A theology drawn from general revelation, because its evidence comes from nature

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Natural Theology

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Special revelation does not replace general revelation, but builds on it.

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Ongoing Continuity

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Rational defense of the Christian faith to those who are not believers

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Apologetics

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Idea that God built a moral framework into creation itself

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Natural Law

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Both sorts of revelation convey truth about God, and each is continuous with the other, but we are unable to see this unless God pulls back the veil that obscures nature

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Unveiled Continuity

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The Spirit’s work as the author of the Scriptures, a work the Spirit did in and with the human authors of the biblical texts

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Inspiration

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The ways the Spirit continues to work in and with God’s people, as readers of the Scripture, to help us understand and be faithful to what we read there

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Illumination

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Biblical interpretation

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Hermeneutics

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“measure”, the whole of Scripture as the measuring stick, or rule, for Christian faith and life.

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Canon

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a man in the Early Church (around year 140) who pushed for a different collection of Biblical texts than what is in the canon, including major edits and exclusion of the Old Testament

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Marcion

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Ecstatic prophecies of Montanus, Maximilla, and Prisca claimed to speak for the Holy Spirit, raising questions about the authority of the written Scriptures relative to new claims to truth.

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Montanist Controversy

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Roman Catholic rejection of sola scriptura, which affirmed that Catholic theology relies on both Scripture and living tradition and interdependent and authoritative sources for theology.

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Council of Trent

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Official teaching describes both sacred Scripture and Tradition as coming from one source of revelation, the Word of God: Scripture “as it is consigned to writing under the inspiration of the divine Spirit,” and tradition as “the word of God entrusted by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit to the Apostles.”

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Second Vatican Council

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Scripture is without error

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Inerrant

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The truth of tradition passed from Peter to the current pope.

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Succession

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Scripture will not fail

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Infallibility

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Trinitarian heresy: Makes Jesus and the Spirit less than the Father

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Subordinationism

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Makes Jesus into an ordinary human being who merited adoption by God, and it was his “moral progress that won for him the title Son of God.”

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Adoptionist

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Understands the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three modes in which the one Gods works in the world

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Modalism

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The suggestion that God the Father died on the cross

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Patripassianism

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The heresy of Arius that taught that Jesus was God’s first and greatest creature.

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Arianism

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The formal statement or profession of Christian belief originally formulated at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and amplified at the Council of Constantinople in 381.

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Nicene Creed

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The belief that there are three gods

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Tritheism

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“mutual indwelling”, used in theology to point to the relational nature of God

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Perichoresis

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Because the works of God are indivisible and any work God does is the work of all 3 persons of the Trinity, its appropriate to talk about the distinct work that each of the divine persons does in the world

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Doctrine of Appropriations

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“Substance” or “essence”, the very heart of something

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Ousia

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“of similar substance”

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Homoi-ousious

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“the same substance”

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Homo-ousious

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creation out of nothing

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Creatio ex nihilo

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God holds back, distant and standoffish, from what God has made

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Deism

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The teaching that God, by nature, is beyond this world and beyond the comprehension of human beings.

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Transcendence

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A trait of God that refers to God’s intimate union with and total presence to his creation

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Immanence

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The belief that the world is itself divine

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Pantheism

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God and the world are so bound together that God could not rightly exist without the world

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Panentheism

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A group of heretical religious movements that claimed salvation comes from secret knowledge available only to the elite initiated in that religion

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Gnosticism

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Gnostic teaching that divides creation into two realities: material (bad) and spiritual (good)

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Hierarchical dualism

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The goodness of all that God has made, all things are included under the heading of created goodness.

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Holism

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God’s continuing work in creation

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Providence

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God’s work and will in upholding all of creation

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Preservation

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God’s work in and with all things

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Concurrence

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God’s work in guiding all things to the purpose for which they have been made and God’s active rule over creation

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Governance

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The doctrine of the human being—Christian teaching about what sort of creatures we are

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Theological Anthropology

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Creatures who are always both physical and spiritual

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Psychosomatic Unities

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Denies the existence of the spiritual or reduces the human being to a constellation of body parts and nothing more

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Materialism

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a kind of materialism that still recognizes the human being in relationship to God

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Nonreductive Physicalism

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body-soul dualism

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Holistic Dualism

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Image of God, Latin

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Imago Dei

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Sees human beings as sharing in some aspect of God’s substance

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Substantial View

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Emphasizing the unique function human beings have in caring for God’s creation

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Functional View

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Begins with God’s triune nature, emphasizing God’s life as perfect relationship between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To be in the image of God, therefore, might mean that humans are, at our core, beings created to exist in relationship with others

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Relational View

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