Christian Tradition Quiz 2 Flashcards
Christians believe with their ______
feet
How does doctrine emerge?
Because people were trying to describe and encounter God (people who have a living encounter with God won’t shut up about it)
How do we have to know Doctrine?
As Christ has known us-in the flesh
Doctrine is the ________ of the Christian faith
Grammar
____ and ____ always go together
Doctrine and Discipline
“Words about God”
Theology
How does theology begin and then continue?
Begins with God’s revelatory word to us through Jesus and continues as we respond with words to God and each other
The words we use to respond to God affect ________
the way we think,live, worship, and engage in the world
Parts of the Wesleyan quadrilateral
Scripture -> tradition, reason, experience
T/F Heresies were originally “good ideas” of how to explain Jesus
T, eventually the church decides they don’t want to go with them though bc they contradict Scripture/tradition
Claimed to have special/secret knowledge and denied the goodness of the material world
Gnosticism
T.F Gnostics believed Jesus brought special wisdom to tell people how to escape the physical world
T
Heavily influenced by Greek thought and Jewish apocalypticism
Gnosticism
Denied that God really entered in to the physical world and said Jesus did not suffer and die or be born of a virigin
Gnosticism
Contrast in Gnosticism and CT
Gnostic beliefs allow people to do bad things to their bodies and the bodies of others but CT sees the body as very important
T/F If Jesus is just an apparition all you have to do it believe/think about it, but if he is real you have to have faith
T
Emerges after Gnostic movement
Church Hierarchy (Apostolic Authority)
What is the biggest shift from 1st to 2nd century in the church?
Apostolic Authority (more reliable than saying jesus went straight to everyone else and says Jesus –> 12 –> apostles –> everyone else
Claimed he could receive messages directly from the HS that superseded the authority of Jesus and Paul
Montanus (of Montanism)
Issue that Montanism and Gnosticism raised
Would CT carry forward reliable info about God from tradition or leave it for each generation to decide (they choose the former)
Why were women given authority in the early church?
Because the Holy Spirit could speak to anyone
T/F Apostolic authority is what brings in hierarchal structure to the church and adopts the culture around it
T
Struggled with the problem of evil and said that if God is good but evil exists, there must be 2 gods
Marcion (of Marcionism)
Said jesus appeared fully grown in year 29 and was crucified and died; came a fully grown man bc Jesus could not have come from a created being
Marcionism
Suggested a break with Judaism because OT God is not the God of Jesus
Marcionism
What books of the Bible did Marcion use in his “bible”
Luke, Acts, parts of Paul’s letters (wanted nothing to do with Judaism bc the God of Judaism was not the God of jesus)
Church response to Marcionism
Canonization of the actual scriptures
How long did Canonization take?
About 200 years; earliest list of NT books appeared in 190 and the latest ones in 367
2 ways we come to know God
general revelation and special revelation
Characteristics of General Revelation
Bottom-up Approach Info about God through world around us Natural theology Reason back from observation uses "not God" to tell about God
Characteristics of Special Revelation
Top-Down approach
receives knowledge about God
Depends on God to tell us about God
Particularity
Said General Revelation must be filled out by Special Revelation (JC And HS)
Karl Barth
Primary revelation in Christianity
Jesus, not scripture (Ex. islam would say the koran is their primary revelation)
T/F Different language can still accurately testify about Jesus because ultimately Jesus is the primary revelation
T
“the gospel”
euangelion (evangelical)
Focus on scripture as the ultimate authority for faith and practice
Biblicism
An emphasis on life-altering religious experience
Conversionism
Concern for sharing the faith and doing good works
activism
focuses on Jesus’s saving works on the cross
Crucicentrism
How God makes himself known to us
Doctrine of Scripture
4 ways General and Special revelation are taught
Primacy of General Revelation
Primacy of Special Rev
Continuity between the two
Unveiled continuity
General/Special Rev belief that says we must have general revelation before we have special; undermines Scripture
Primacy of Gen. Rev.
General/Special Rev belief that says general rev. doesn’t give valid knowledge about God; because we are sinful we cannot correctly interpret general revelation; Problem with this: we see to fail God around us
Primacy of Special Rev
General/Special Rev belief that says general rev is necessary but must be supplemented with special; apologetics (general revelation creates a starting point in conversion conversations)
Continuity between Gen and Special
General/Special Rev belief that says nature and people are sinful and we cannot see God’s perfect will, so Scripture picks up where a sinful world leaves off
Unveiled Continuity
Form of Subordinationism; says Jesus was adopted by God because of his obedience; denies Jesus as revealed truth of God
Adoptionism
Says Father, Son, and HS are 3 modes in which 1 God works; says these 3 are just masks that God wears; could be more than 3 masks; patripassianism
Modalism
Says either cross is a ruse or God the Father died on a cross; belief of Modalism
Patripassianism
Says Jesus is God’s 1st and best creation; gives J God status, but denies his eternality
Arianism (J is “like God”, but not God)
Doctrine of Nicene Creed
homoi (like) vs. homo (same); excludes tritheism; says relationship between trinity is the essence of God, all 3 persons dwell in each other
