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Christian Tradition FINAL Flashcards

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What does a liturgy do?

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Draws one into and roots one into a particular narrative

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3 facts about Bonhoeffer

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He was a Lutheran pastor, he lived in NY, he was executed by the Nazis

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According to the lecture on Hook, Peter was able to see the feast when he

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joined the liturgy of Neverland

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What does James K.A. Smith want the reader to know in How (NOT) to be secular

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the “feel” of the secular age

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Why was Maggie able to remember her home and recognize her father in Hook?

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She practiced the liturgy of home by singing the songs her mother taught her

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2 different ways to engage a secular age

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  1. take

2. spin

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Smith describes the secular age as

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cross-pressured

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What is one of the characteristics of technology in the later modern era?

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It suggests that we can be free by mastering our circumstances

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This maxim is seen as a way to illustrate the secular age

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“I don’t believe in God, but I miss him”

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According to Bonhoeffer, what is one of the characteristics of cheap grace?

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it is grace we bestow upon ourselves

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T/F Bonhoeffer believed discipleship must transcend all comprehension, even our own

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Which definition of secularity are we living in now?

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one of the factors of the pervasive use of technology is that is suggests that

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we don’t have to be claimed by anything

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primary characteristic of the secular age

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the presence of competing narratives

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“When Christ calls a man..”

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He bids him come and die

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What is the name Smith gives to “the subtle process by which our world, and hence the realm of significance, is enclosed within the material universe and the natural world?”

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Immanentization

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Secular people…

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still want the feeling of transcendence

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the central distinction Bonhoeffer makes in The Cost of Discipleship

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Cheap grace vs. costly grace

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One of the characteristics of our late modern, technological life is that when we pursue life that is like this, we lose our ability to

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celebrate

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“liturgy” means

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the work of the people

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According to Bonhoeffer, Christ is the ______ between disciples and their “immediate realities” of family, jobs, etc.

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mediator

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Theory of inspiration that says the Holy Spirit guided the biblical writers, but didn’t tell them what to write word-for-word

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Verbal Theory of Inspiration

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______ believed that material was evil and therefore, Jesus couldn’t have a material body

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Gnosticism

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T/F The Fullness of the Christian encounter with God is encapsulated in doctrine

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F

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25
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Revelation in the Christian tradition is primarily

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a self-revelation of God’s personal presence

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26
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Doctrine is the _____ of Christian faith

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grammar

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27
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What is heresy

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a good-faith attempt to describe an encounter with God

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T/F Bonhoeffer was American

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F, he was German

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Christian Scripture plays the role of

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faithfully and authoritatively bearing witness to what God has done in Christ

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Cheap grace is grace we bestow upon

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ourselves

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31
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Which section of the Bible does Bonhoeffer use to guide his description of the life of a disciple?

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The Sermon on the Mount

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32
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“As Christianity spread, the church became more secularized. The world was Christianized, and grace was its common property. It was to be had at ______.” -Bonhoeffer

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a low cost

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33
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In terms of revelation, Scripture is an example of

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Special revelation

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34
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Who denied that the OT should be included the Christian canon of Scripture

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Marcion

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35
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Why must knowledge of God in the Christian tradition include practices

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Because God ha known us by becoming flesh in the person of Jesus and calling us to know by following

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36
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According to Jones and the lecture, theology begins with what

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God’s revelatory word spoken to us

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37
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Which provides knowledge about God based on our observations of the world around us

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general revelation

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38
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Christian doctrine is like

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an attempt at describing something amazing you have seen

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39
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“Natural theology” is also known as

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general revelation

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40
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Gnostics believed Jesus’ relationship to Mary was like that of

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passing through a pipe

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41
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T/F Arius was condemned as a heretic

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42
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Greek cosmology tended to understand the universe as being divided into ___ and ___ realms

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eternal, temporal

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43
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This theory of understanding jesus makes him into an ordinary human being who made exceptional moral progress

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Adoptionist Theory

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44
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The primary point of Smiths’ How Not to be Secular

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Raise awareness of the dynamics shaping the our multi-layered narrative of the Christian Tradition

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45
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These people believed that there were 2 Gods, one who created material, and one who created spiritual things (Augustine was briefly associated with these people)

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Manicheans

46
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What year did the Council of Nicaea take place?

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325 CE

47
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This is an example of what type of approach to the Trinity: When Jesus was born, it was because God created Him

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Arianism

48
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these people believed that they received special revelations from God that could supersede Jesus

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Montanists

49
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T/F The Holy Spirit only inspires the writing of Scripture

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F, it inspires the writing and hearing of Scripture

50
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T/F The Council of Constantinople happened after the Council of Nicaea

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T

51
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Asserted that there were different Gods represented in the OT and the NT

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Marcion

52
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theologian who insisted that the Son and the Father must be of the same ousia

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Athanasius

53
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What did the Montanist controversy inspire

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the notion of apostolic authority

54
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T/F Montanus believed that the God of the OT was different than the God of the NT

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F, Marcion

55
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The relationship between general and special revelation is one of

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ongoing continuity

56
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What was Marcion most well known for

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dividing the OT and NT and suggesting that God was different in each

57
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Theology begins with __-

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God’s revelatory word spoken to us

58
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T/F General Revelation is good enough on its own

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F, it has limitations and needs special revelation to fill it out

59
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T/F Adoptionsim is a form of subordinationsim

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T

60
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“God is like a person with 3 jobs: parent, teacher, spouse” is which type of heresy

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Modalism

61
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Christian doctrine can be likened to

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describing a first date/sunrise

62
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the idea that the Father “found” the Son and bestowed divinity upon him

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Adoptionism

63
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the idea that the Father, Son, and HS are displayed as different “sides” of one God

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Modalism

64
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gathering of bishops and theologians to discuss the relationship of the Father and Son

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Council of Nicaea (325)

65
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gathering of theologians and bishops to discuss the fullness of the term homoousian; Cappadocia Fathers made a major contribution

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Council of Constantinople (381)

66
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the Word made flesh in the person of Jesus

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Incarnation

67
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“of the same substance”

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homoousia (good)

68
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“of like substance”

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homoiousia

69
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Term referring to the operation of the HS are is relates to Scripture

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Inspiration

70
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Claimed that “there was a time when the Son was not”

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Arianism

71
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Using the phrase “God and Jesus” could fall under which trinitarian heresy

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Arianism

72
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Theory of inspiration that says biblical writers shared a close relationship to the Spirit, such that they were writing what the Spirit inspired them to write

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Verbal Theory of Inspiration

73
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Gnosis means

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knowledge

74
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The notion of apostolic authority arose in response to

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Montanus

75
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Orthodoxy is concerned with

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affirming truths that allow us to rightly worship God

76
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ousia is translated as

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substance

77
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what does liturgy do

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draws one in and roots one into a particular narrative

78
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what is the problem with most of the trinitarian heresies

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they led to idolatry

79
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Jesus is what type of revelation

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special

80
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Human nature is seen most fully in who

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Jesus

81
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T/F Human nature should not be defined according to sin, but according to what God created humans to be

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T

82
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the 5 points of Calvinism spell

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TULIP

83
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The word that describes the relationship between mind/soul and the body in a human being

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psychosomatic unity

84
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T/F Augustine argued against the Dentists that the power of the sacraments were not dependent upon the persona morality of the priest offering them

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T

85
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What does hierarchal dualism do

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pits the body against the soul

86
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Regarding salvation, arminianism is _____ while Calvinism is _____-

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synergistic, monergistic

87
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What did the Council of Chalcedon accomplish

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It affirmed what God had done in the divine-human Jesus while also maintaining silence about the deep mysteries of the incarnation

88
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T/F We use God and enjoy everything else

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F, we enjoy God and use everything else

89
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Who held a Genesis 3 theological anthropology

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Augustine

90
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T/F Pelagius and Augustine agreed on the human’s ability to choose to stop sinning

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F

91
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According to Augustine, the image of God in humans has been _____ as a result of the fall

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destroyed

92
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The Study of salvation

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soteriology

93
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Sanctification is the aspect of salvation where

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our chains fall off and we are set free to be fully human in this life

94
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Why was Augustine insistent that there was nothing humans could do to choose salvation for themselves

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He wanted to insist that salvation is only by God’s grace

95
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Which heresy advocated that Jesus was human and divine, but those natures did not “touch” in him

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Nestorianism

96
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Who most influenced Wesley’s “heart warming” experience

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Luther

97
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What are the marks of the church as outlined by the Nicene Creed

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Holy, One, Apostolic

98
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Who said that Christ’s presence in communion elements was not necessary, memorial based communion

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Zwingli

99
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Ecclesiology is

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the study of the church

100
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T/F Wesley agrees that holiness includes our inward, spiritual attitudes as well as our engagement with the social realities in the world around us

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T

101
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To say that the church is apostolic is to say that

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it traces its authority to the apostles and their eyewitness testimony to Jesus

102
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catholic means

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universal

103
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According to Wesley, what role does sanctification play in soteriology

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it restores and makes us fully human according to what God wants humanity to be

104
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what does filoque literally mean

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and the Son

105
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Place theologians Calvin, Luther, Wesley, and Augustine in order

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Augustine –> Luther –> Calvin –> Wesley

106
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Why is the fililoque controversy important

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If the Spirit does not proceed from the Son, it means the Spirit can do something contrary to the Son

107
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T/F According to Wesley, experience and emotion can be sources of reliable theological knowledge, but they don’t need to be equated with faith

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T

108
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Wesley’s belief of Christian Perfection

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it is the heart filled with love for God and neighbor, excludes the desire for sin

109
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T/F The church lives in memory of the garden and hope of the New Jerusalem

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T

110
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Luther’s stance on communion

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consubstantiation

111
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a visible sign of spiritual grace

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sacrament

112
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doctrine of the Holy Spirit

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pneumatology; is present in all of salvation history

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