Christian Tradition FINAL Flashcards
What does a liturgy do?
Draws one into and roots one into a particular narrative
3 facts about Bonhoeffer
He was a Lutheran pastor, he lived in NY, he was executed by the Nazis
According to the lecture on Hook, Peter was able to see the feast when he
joined the liturgy of Neverland
What does James K.A. Smith want the reader to know in How (NOT) to be secular
the “feel” of the secular age
Why was Maggie able to remember her home and recognize her father in Hook?
She practiced the liturgy of home by singing the songs her mother taught her
2 different ways to engage a secular age
- take
2. spin
Smith describes the secular age as
cross-pressured
What is one of the characteristics of technology in the later modern era?
It suggests that we can be free by mastering our circumstances
This maxim is seen as a way to illustrate the secular age
“I don’t believe in God, but I miss him”
According to Bonhoeffer, what is one of the characteristics of cheap grace?
it is grace we bestow upon ourselves
T/F Bonhoeffer believed discipleship must transcend all comprehension, even our own
T
Which definition of secularity are we living in now?
3
one of the factors of the pervasive use of technology is that is suggests that
we don’t have to be claimed by anything
primary characteristic of the secular age
the presence of competing narratives
“When Christ calls a man..”
He bids him come and die
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?”
Immanentization
Secular people…
still want the feeling of transcendence
the central distinction Bonhoeffer makes in The Cost of Discipleship
Cheap grace vs. costly grace
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
celebrate
“liturgy” means
the work of the people
According to Bonhoeffer, Christ is the ______ between disciples and their “immediate realities” of family, jobs, etc.
mediator
Theory of inspiration that says the Holy Spirit guided the biblical writers, but didn’t tell them what to write word-for-word
Verbal Theory of Inspiration
______ believed that material was evil and therefore, Jesus couldn’t have a material body
Gnosticism
T/F The Fullness of the Christian encounter with God is encapsulated in doctrine
F
Revelation in the Christian tradition is primarily
a self-revelation of God’s personal presence
Doctrine is the _____ of Christian faith
grammar
What is heresy
a good-faith attempt to describe an encounter with God
T/F Bonhoeffer was American
F, he was German
Christian Scripture plays the role of
faithfully and authoritatively bearing witness to what God has done in Christ
Cheap grace is grace we bestow upon
ourselves
Which section of the Bible does Bonhoeffer use to guide his description of the life of a disciple?
The Sermon on the Mount
“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
a low cost
In terms of revelation, Scripture is an example of
Special revelation
Who denied that the OT should be included the Christian canon of Scripture
Marcion
Why must knowledge of God in the Christian tradition include practices
Because God ha known us by becoming flesh in the person of Jesus and calling us to know by following
According to Jones and the lecture, theology begins with what
God’s revelatory word spoken to us
Which provides knowledge about God based on our observations of the world around us
general revelation
Christian doctrine is like
an attempt at describing something amazing you have seen
“Natural theology” is also known as
general revelation
Gnostics believed Jesus’ relationship to Mary was like that of
passing through a pipe
T/F Arius was condemned as a heretic
T
Greek cosmology tended to understand the universe as being divided into ___ and ___ realms
eternal, temporal
This theory of understanding jesus makes him into an ordinary human being who made exceptional moral progress
Adoptionist Theory
The primary point of Smiths’ How Not to be Secular
Raise awareness of the dynamics shaping the our multi-layered narrative of the Christian Tradition
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)
Manicheans
What year did the Council of Nicaea take place?
325 CE
This is an example of what type of approach to the Trinity: When Jesus was born, it was because God created Him
Arianism
these people believed that they received special revelations from God that could supersede Jesus
Montanists
T/F The Holy Spirit only inspires the writing of Scripture
F, it inspires the writing and hearing of Scripture
T/F The Council of Constantinople happened after the Council of Nicaea
T
Asserted that there were different Gods represented in the OT and the NT
Marcion
theologian who insisted that the Son and the Father must be of the same ousia
Athanasius
What did the Montanist controversy inspire
the notion of apostolic authority
T/F Montanus believed that the God of the OT was different than the God of the NT
F, Marcion
The relationship between general and special revelation is one of
ongoing continuity
What was Marcion most well known for
dividing the OT and NT and suggesting that God was different in each
Theology begins with __-
God’s revelatory word spoken to us
T/F General Revelation is good enough on its own
F, it has limitations and needs special revelation to fill it out
T/F Adoptionsim is a form of subordinationsim
T
“God is like a person with 3 jobs: parent, teacher, spouse” is which type of heresy
Modalism
Christian doctrine can be likened to
describing a first date/sunrise
the idea that the Father “found” the Son and bestowed divinity upon him
Adoptionism
the idea that the Father, Son, and HS are displayed as different “sides” of one God
Modalism
gathering of bishops and theologians to discuss the relationship of the Father and Son
Council of Nicaea (325)
gathering of theologians and bishops to discuss the fullness of the term homoousian; Cappadocia Fathers made a major contribution
Council of Constantinople (381)
the Word made flesh in the person of Jesus
Incarnation
“of the same substance”
homoousia (good)
“of like substance”
homoiousia
Term referring to the operation of the HS are is relates to Scripture
Inspiration
Claimed that “there was a time when the Son was not”
Arianism
Using the phrase “God and Jesus” could fall under which trinitarian heresy
Arianism
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
Verbal Theory of Inspiration
Gnosis means
knowledge
The notion of apostolic authority arose in response to
Montanus
Orthodoxy is concerned with
affirming truths that allow us to rightly worship God
ousia is translated as
substance
what does liturgy do
draws one in and roots one into a particular narrative
what is the problem with most of the trinitarian heresies
they led to idolatry
Jesus is what type of revelation
special
Human nature is seen most fully in who
Jesus
T/F Human nature should not be defined according to sin, but according to what God created humans to be
T
the 5 points of Calvinism spell
TULIP
The word that describes the relationship between mind/soul and the body in a human being
psychosomatic unity
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
T
What does hierarchal dualism do
pits the body against the soul
Regarding salvation, arminianism is _____ while Calvinism is _____-
synergistic, monergistic
What did the Council of Chalcedon accomplish
It affirmed what God had done in the divine-human Jesus while also maintaining silence about the deep mysteries of the incarnation
T/F We use God and enjoy everything else
F, we enjoy God and use everything else
Who held a Genesis 3 theological anthropology
Augustine
T/F Pelagius and Augustine agreed on the human’s ability to choose to stop sinning
F
According to Augustine, the image of God in humans has been _____ as a result of the fall
destroyed
The Study of salvation
soteriology
Sanctification is the aspect of salvation where
our chains fall off and we are set free to be fully human in this life
Why was Augustine insistent that there was nothing humans could do to choose salvation for themselves
He wanted to insist that salvation is only by God’s grace
Which heresy advocated that Jesus was human and divine, but those natures did not “touch” in him
Nestorianism
Who most influenced Wesley’s “heart warming” experience
Luther
What are the marks of the church as outlined by the Nicene Creed
Holy, One, Apostolic
Who said that Christ’s presence in communion elements was not necessary, memorial based communion
Zwingli
Ecclesiology is
the study of the church
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
T
To say that the church is apostolic is to say that
it traces its authority to the apostles and their eyewitness testimony to Jesus
catholic means
universal
According to Wesley, what role does sanctification play in soteriology
it restores and makes us fully human according to what God wants humanity to be
what does filoque literally mean
and the Son
Place theologians Calvin, Luther, Wesley, and Augustine in order
Augustine –> Luther –> Calvin –> Wesley
Why is the fililoque controversy important
If the Spirit does not proceed from the Son, it means the Spirit can do something contrary to the Son
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
T
Wesley’s belief of Christian Perfection
it is the heart filled with love for God and neighbor, excludes the desire for sin
T/F The church lives in memory of the garden and hope of the New Jerusalem
T
Luther’s stance on communion
consubstantiation
a visible sign of spiritual grace
sacrament
doctrine of the Holy Spirit
pneumatology; is present in all of salvation history
