Christian Tradition Midterm Flashcards
*What does liturgy do?
It draws one into and roots one into a particular narrative
*Facts about Bonhoeffer
Lutheran pastor, executed by Nazis, lived in NY
*When was Peter able to see the feast?
When he joined the liturgy of Neverland
*The main purpose of How Not To Be Secular
wanting the reader to know the “feel” of the secular age/illuminating the secular age
*In Hook, why could Maggie remember her home?
She practiced the liturgy of home by singing songs her mother sang to her
*2 ways to engage in a secular age
Take
Spin
*The secular age is cross-_______
pressured
*Characteristic of technology in the late modern era
It suggests we can be free by mastering our circumstances
*Maxim used to illustrate the secular age
“I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.”
*T/F Costly grace is grace we bestow upon ourselves
F; cheap grace
*Bonhoeffer’s thought on Discipleship
it is not limited to what you can comprehend-it must transcend the deep waters beyond your own comprehension
*According to Smith, which secular age (#) are we living in?
Secular 3
*T/F Technology suggests that we don’t have to be claimed by anything
T
*Primary characteristic of the secular age
the presence of competing narratives
*Work of the people, what people do
Liturgy
*“When Christ calls a man…”
“…He bids him come and die”
*The subtle process by which our world and hence the realm of significance is enclosed within the material universe and the natural world
Immanentization
*T/F Secular people don’t want to feel transcendence
F, secular people still want the feeling of transcendence (ex. I don’t know God, but I miss him)
*Main distinction in Bonhoeffer
Cheap grace vs. costly grace
*Technology causes us to lose our ability to
celebrate
*According to Bon, Christ is the ____ between disciples and their immediate realities
Mediator
*Theory of Inspiration that says the HS guided the Biblical writers, but didn’t tell them what to write word-for-word
Verbal Theory of Inspiration
*Said that the material world was evil so Jesus couldn’t have had a material body
Gnosticism
T/F The fullness of the Christian encounter with God has been encapsulated in doctrine
F
*What is revelation in the Christian Tradition
a self-revelation of God’s personal prescence
*Doctrine is the ______ of the Christian faith
Grammar
*What is heresy
a good-faith attempt to describe an encounter with God
*T/F Christian Scripture faithfully and authoritatively bears witness to what God has done in Jesus
T
*What section of the Bible does Bon 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 _______.”
a low cost
*T/F Scripture is General Revelation
F, Scripture is Special Revelation
*Person/belief that denied the that the OT should be included in the canon
Marcion/Marcionism
*Why must knowledge of God in the CT include practices
God has known us by becoming flesh in Jesus and calling us to know by following Him
*Theology begins with ________________
God’s revelatory word spoken to us
*Provides knowledge about God based on our observations of the world around us
General Revelation
*Christian doctrine is like (ex. sunrise on the mountain)
An attempt at describing something amazing.
T/F Secularity is anti-religion
F, it’s more of just 2 conflicting stories wherein particularity is no longer important