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Christian Tradition Quiz 2 Flashcards

1
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Christians believe with their ______

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feet

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How does doctrine emerge?

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Because people were trying to describe and encounter God (people who have a living encounter with God won’t shut up about it)

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How do we have to know Doctrine?

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As Christ has known us-in the flesh

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4
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Doctrine is the ________ of the Christian faith

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Grammar

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5
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____ and ____ always go together

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Doctrine and Discipline

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“Words about God”

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Theology

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7
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How does theology begin and then continue?

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Begins with God’s revelatory word to us through Jesus and continues as we respond with words to God and each other

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The words we use to respond to God affect ________

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the way we think,live, worship, and engage in the world

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9
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Parts of the Wesleyan quadrilateral

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Scripture -> tradition, reason, experience

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10
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T/F Heresies were originally “good ideas” of how to explain Jesus

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T, eventually the church decides they don’t want to go with them though bc they contradict Scripture/tradition

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Claimed to have special/secret knowledge and denied the goodness of the material world

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Gnosticism

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T.F Gnostics believed Jesus brought special wisdom to tell people how to escape the physical world

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T

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Heavily influenced by Greek thought and Jewish apocalypticism

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Gnosticism

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Denied that God really entered in to the physical world and said Jesus did not suffer and die or be born of a virigin

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Gnosticism

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Contrast in Gnosticism and CT

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Gnostic beliefs allow people to do bad things to their bodies and the bodies of others but CT sees the body as very important

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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

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T

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17
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Emerges after Gnostic movement

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Church Hierarchy (Apostolic Authority)

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What is the biggest shift from 1st to 2nd century in the church?

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Apostolic Authority (more reliable than saying jesus went straight to everyone else and says Jesus –> 12 –> apostles –> everyone else

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Claimed he could receive messages directly from the HS that superseded the authority of Jesus and Paul

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Montanus (of Montanism)

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Issue that Montanism and Gnosticism raised

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Would CT carry forward reliable info about God from tradition or leave it for each generation to decide (they choose the former)

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21
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Why were women given authority in the early church?

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Because the Holy Spirit could speak to anyone

22
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T/F Apostolic authority is what brings in hierarchal structure to the church and adopts the culture around it

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T

23
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Struggled with the problem of evil and said that if God is good but evil exists, there must be 2 gods

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Marcion (of Marcionism)

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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

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Marcionism

25
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Suggested a break with Judaism because OT God is not the God of Jesus

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Marcionism

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What books of the Bible did Marcion use in his “bible”

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Luke, Acts, parts of Paul’s letters (wanted nothing to do with Judaism bc the God of Judaism was not the God of jesus)

27
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Church response to Marcionism

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Canonization of the actual scriptures

28
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How long did Canonization take?

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About 200 years; earliest list of NT books appeared in 190 and the latest ones in 367

29
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2 ways we come to know God

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general revelation and special revelation

30
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Characteristics of General Revelation

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Bottom-up Approach
Info about God through world around us
Natural theology
Reason back from observation
uses "not God" to tell about God
31
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Characteristics of Special Revelation

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Top-Down approach
receives knowledge about God
Depends on God to tell us about God
Particularity

32
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Said General Revelation must be filled out by Special Revelation (JC And HS)

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Karl Barth

33
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Primary revelation in Christianity

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Jesus, not scripture (Ex. islam would say the koran is their primary revelation)

34
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T/F Different language can still accurately testify about Jesus because ultimately Jesus is the primary revelation

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T

35
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“the gospel”

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euangelion (evangelical)

36
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Focus on scripture as the ultimate authority for faith and practice

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Biblicism

37
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An emphasis on life-altering religious experience

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Conversionism

38
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Concern for sharing the faith and doing good works

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activism

39
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focuses on Jesus’s saving works on the cross

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Crucicentrism

40
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How God makes himself known to us

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Doctrine of Scripture

41
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4 ways General and Special revelation are taught

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Primacy of General Revelation
Primacy of Special Rev
Continuity between the two
Unveiled continuity

42
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General/Special Rev belief that says we must have general revelation before we have special; undermines Scripture

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Primacy of Gen. Rev.

43
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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

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Primacy of Special Rev

44
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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)

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Continuity between Gen and Special

45
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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

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Unveiled Continuity

46
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Form of Subordinationism; says Jesus was adopted by God because of his obedience; denies Jesus as revealed truth of God

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Adoptionism

47
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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

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Modalism

48
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Says either cross is a ruse or God the Father died on a cross; belief of Modalism

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Patripassianism

49
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Says Jesus is God’s 1st and best creation; gives J God status, but denies his eternality

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Arianism (J is “like God”, but not God)

50
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Doctrine of Nicene Creed

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homoi (like) vs. homo (same); excludes tritheism; says relationship between trinity is the essence of God, all 3 persons dwell in each other

Christian Tradition (6 decks)

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