Exam

Question 1

Marks of a Robust Gospel

Answer 1

A Robust Gospel is a Story
A Robust Gospel Deals with a Robust Problem
A Robust Gospel is Personal
A Robust Gospel is Communal
A robust Gospel includes the Whole Story - The Life, Death, Resurrection, and Spirit of Jesus.
A Robust Gospel Demands Faith and Works

Question 2

The Makings of a Practice

Answer 2

First, the goods that are realized in carrying out a practice are “internal” to that practice.
Just as the goods realized in a practice are internal to that practice, so it is with the standards of excellence by which we judge a practice.
We are thus brought directly to a third characteristic of a practice, its nature as a “socially established” and “cooperative” human activity.
As has just been indicated, a fourth feature of a practice is that it may be “systematically extended.”

Question 3

Collaboration

Answer 3

We listen to the Whispers and Nudges of the Holy Spirit.
We ask powerful questions of others to discover where God is already at work.
We collaborate with God in Prayer for ant with Seekers and Skeptics.

Question 4

Evangelism Community

Answer 4

A witness in a New Landscape.
A witness to the Kingdom of God.
A witness to the Whole Body of Christ.

Question 5

Barriers to Rebuilding Trust With Spiritual Friends

Answer 5

Having no Unchurched friends.

Having a mental script.

Question 6

Language Problems

Answer 6

Language isn’t static; it is socially constructed, because different societies determine what concepts should be linked together.
We have a different language as Christians that other people don’t speak.
Therefore…When we don’t consider the elements of the environment or determine if the language is appropriate in the current situation, then we can be taken offensively.

Question 7

Stories Are Important

Answer 7

Stories are the Only Container Big Enough to Carry Truth
Stories convey not just the facts by also feelings and nuances of truth, Stories are a bigger and better container of the whole truth that propositions, concepts and dogmas.
In a Postmodern World, Interpretation Flows through Storytelling

Question 8

Discipleship Are Important

Answer 8

Discipleship was the central teaching model in the first century.
Like other rabbis, Jesus had disciples.
It Highlights Experience Over Knowledge.
Postmodernism Blurs Evangelism and Discipleship.
It’s Transformational

Question 9

Correlation Between Beliefs and Actions

Answer 9

What you believe dictates your actions

Question 10

Sola Fide

Answer 10

Faith Alone
Becomes based on personal faith
Individualistic transaction

Question 11

Sola Scriptura

Answer 11

Scripture Alone
Individuals become authority on interpretation
Causes division

Question 12

Sola Christus

Answer 12

Christ Alone
Church becomes optional at best
Church become useless at worst

Question 13

Truth Is

Answer 13

Premodern: intuitive and universal
Modern: discovered and universal
Postmodern: discovered and constructive

Question 14

Submit

Answer 14

When we submit to something or someone to be true, we give that person power.

Question 15

That Fueled Postmodernism

Answer 15

Printing press
Technology
Internet
Etc.

Question 16

Postmodern Spectrum

Answer 16

Nihilism: Absolute truth doesn’t exist
Constructivism: Truth is constructed
Relativism: Person to person, society to society
Pragmatism: Whatever helps you get around.
Skeptical Postmodernism: Some absolute moral truth, but we have a low capacity grasping it
Practical Realism: There is absolute truth, but it is impossible to attain.

Question 17

The Self

Answer 17

Premodernism: Human nature, true self, moral constraint
pushing power agendas
Modernism: Reason shaped by all becomes new human nature, autonomy, independent, stable, rational
no longer need God to tell us who we are
Postmodern: Disappearing self, no way of knowing what is reasonable,
Not being responsible for your actions

Question 18

Two Language Theories

Answer 18

“Fido”-Fido: Names, sharp contrasts between literal and figurative, fact and interpretation
Language Game: abstract concepts, defining an object by the rules it follows, as opposed to what it is

Question 19

Ways of Revealing Truth

Answer 19

Premodernism: Authoritative tradition
Modernism: Impartial Reasoning
Postmodernism: Storytelling

Question 20

Functions of History

Answer 20

Teaches practical lessons
Shapes our Identity
Gives us a sense of destiny

Question 21

5 Modern Tenants

Answer 21

It is characterized as the rejection of some kind of traditional authority— the feudalistic system, the Church, Aristotle, the king—and replaced with trust in individual or collective human reason, that is, trust in the natural human capacity to think things through.
Truth is out there and everyone is endowed with reason to find it. It may be stunted by lack of education, darkened by superstition, or silenced by the weight of tradition. But it is there, all the same
When you are able to trust human reason to discover truth, the natural next step is to believe that with enough time, all disagreement will be solved.
When you are able to trust human reason to discover truth, the natural next step is to believe that with enough time, societal problems will be solved.
We all reason the same way and reason becomes the salvation of humanity because it will bring us ultimate truth

Question 22

Post Modern Tenants

Answer 22

Truth is power, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Therefore, absolute truth is absent or unattainable.
Our identity is not given or determined, but passively constructed.
Language is not neutral, and shapes the way we see truth.
There is no wholly impartial, assumption-free approach to truth. An inherited worldview, a set of background prepositions, always shapes one’s interpretation. Truth must be shared as story, not fact.
History and Tradition are another form of power which pigeonhole us into only one way of seeing the world.