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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What did Martin Luther fundamentally say faith is?

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Trust

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2
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The existence of God can neither be proved nor disproved with total certainty: True or False

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True

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Which Italian theologian revolutionized the idea that we cannot prove or disprove God’s existence?

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Thomas Aquinas

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In the writing of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, what were his beliefs on the suffering of God?

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Our God bears our suffering and anguish with us

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5
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The Bible is the fundamental source of theology: True or False

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True

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6
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How does Martin Luther describe faith?

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A confidence in God

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7
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God gave us free will so that we could choose to love: True or False

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True

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According to Thomas Aquinas, God is the single, original cause: True or False

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True

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Which 19th century mathematician argues against faith as they believed that it was “wrong always… for anyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”?

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William Kingdon Clifford

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10
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer presents the idea that God is a “suffering God.” What is the significance of God experiencing the suffering of his creation?

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It showcases how God’s willingness to take on the suffering of humanity in order not to abandon them

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11
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What is Aquinas’ teleological argument?

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Everything was created for a purpose and the designer of the purpose is God

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12
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What is prayer’s importance for theology?

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It is the origin of theology

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13
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Which theologian argues that a suffering God is the foundation of an authentically Christian theology?

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Jürgen Moltmann

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14
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What are the sources of Christian theology?

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Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience

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15
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According to Bonhoeffer, God suffers: True or False

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True

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16
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The patriotic period comes after the Apostolic period: True or False

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True

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17
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What is Christification?

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A Christian practice of holiness

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18
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How does Buber’s distinction between I-it and I-thou relationships help us understand God?

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It emphasizes a personal relationship between God and humans

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19
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What is telos?

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The end result of something

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20
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What concept does martin Luther’s “theology of the cross” emphasize?

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The suffering and crucified nature of God

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21
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Confession is needed at baptism: True or False

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True

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22
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Who in the Bible is called the “Wisdom of God”?

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Jesus Christ

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23
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What does theology teach us about worship?

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It teaches us who we worship (God)

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24
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What does “fiducia” mean?

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Confidence

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Who argues that “that a God who cannot suffer is a deficient, not a perfect God”?

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Jürgen Moltmann

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26
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What parental analogies are used for God?

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God as father and mother

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27
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Which theologian claimed that God is “without passions”?

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Spinoza

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28
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God is neither male or female: True or False

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True

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29
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We use analogies in the Bible because the human mind does not have the ability to behold God directly: True or False

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True

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30
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Jürgen Moltmann argued that God cannot suffer because he is not a deficient, imperfect God: True or False

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False

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31
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The Hebrew word “Adonai” means “master” or “lord” when referring to YHWH: True or False

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True

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32
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God’s existence can be proven but not reasoned: True or False

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False

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33
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Marcion argued that the Old Testament…

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Should be shunned by christians

34
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God’s origination of man is personal, not ______

35
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Which writer argued that true love was rooted in pain?

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Kazoo Kitamori

36
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The name YHWH-raffle mean which of the following?

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The Lord our healer

37
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A communicable attribute of God is one that humans can comprehend because we can exemplify them to a lesser extent: True or False

38
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The term “attributes of God” refers to characteristics used to describe the character and qualities of God: True or False

39
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YHWH-Nissi means:

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The Lord our banner

40
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What is the “Tetragrammaton”?

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The name of YHWH

41
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We should always think of the attributes and the character of God as being inseparable from one another: True or False

42
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What does El-Shaddai mean?

A

God Almighty

43
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It is impossible to comprehend God: True or False

44
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The Bible is an example of specific revelation: True or False

45
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Adonai is the Hebrew name of the Lord: True or False

46
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Adonai is the Hebrew name of the Lord: True or False

47
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Many writers have pointed out that the Christian practice of prayer seems to be molded on the relationship between who?

A

Children and parent

48
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The Greek word for “revelation,” apokalipsis, means what?

49
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The Law, given by God to the Israelites, falls into which type of revelation:

50
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What is the most sacred name of God in the Old Testament:

51
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Christ is the telos of humanity: True or False

52
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The Pentateuch is the first 5 books of the Bible: True or False

53
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What name did God reveal to Moses in the burning bush?

54
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The most significant development of the doctrine of the Trinity is connected with:

A

Christology

55
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The term “perichoresis” is used to articulate the Tri-unity of God in a way that sustains the difference of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: True or False

56
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Monotheism is fundamental to the Judeo-Christian faith: True or False

57
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The most significant developments of the doctrine of the Trinity are connected with the development of Christology and, consequently, of Pneumatology: True or False

58
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The Nicene-Constantipolitain Creed is an expansion of the Nicene Creed with a longer section on the Holy Spirit, affirming the Spirit’s divinity as equal to that of the Father and the Son: True or False

59
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Modalism affirms that there is one God who has three different modes (manners) of appearance: True or False

60
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The Old Testament emphasizes the oneness of God and the New Testament also asserts it: True or False

61
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The doctrine of the Trinity can be regarded as the result of reflection on the pattern of divine activity revealed in the Bible and continued in Christian experience: True or False

62
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The doctrine of the Trinity is the product of…

A

Reflection

63
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There is a subordination in the Trinity with the Father as head and the Son and Spirit as lesser divinities below him: True or False

64
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The word “Trinity” cannot be found in the Bible: True or False

65
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What is the proper name of God according to Robert Jenson?

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Father, Son , Holy Spirit

66
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What heresy says that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not three distinct hypostases but rather three different manifestations of the one God?

67
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The term “economy of salvation” refers to the way in which God has ordered the salvation of humanity in history: True or False

68
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Which early Christian theologian was most associated with opposing Gnosticism and affirming the goodness of creation?

A

Irenaeus of Lyons

69
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What did the Gnostic worldview primarily emphasize regarding the material world?

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The material world is evils and created by a lesser deity

70
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Who argued that the Trinity was a protective doctrine intended to safeguard the complete meaning of God from oversimplified understandings?

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Emil Brunner

71
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What term is used to describe the common element of a group of Trinitarian heresies associated with Noetus and Praxeas in the late 2nd century, and Sabellius in the 3rd century?

72
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Karen Kirby did not criticize Moltmann’s notion of “the social Trinity”: True or False

73
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Who tries to “liberate” the Christian doctrine of the Trinity from the confines of ancient and modern metaphysics of substance and metaphysics of transcendental subjectivity?

74
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What is the attribute of “immutability”?

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God’s divine constancy and changeless perfection

75
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What was Irenaeus’ argument against Marcion of Sinope’s idea of there being two different gods – one who is the creator and another who is the redeemer?

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That there is only one God who created and redeemed the world

76
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What phrase did Irenaeus use that meant “the way in which the one God has ordered the salvation of humanity in history”?

A

Economy of Salvation

77
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What does doxology mean?

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Giving God glory and praise

78
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Who articulates the Trinity as a “community of being”?

79
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According to Scripture and tradition, all three persons of the Trinity are present in the act of creation: True or False

80
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Homoiousia means “same substance”: True or False

81
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Who was present with Christ at the Transfiguration?

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Elijah and Moses

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