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Final Exam Flashcards

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What are the five pillars of epistemology

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Experience, Holy Spirit, Scripture, Tradition, Reason.

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By pendulum swing we mean…

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Swing between Scripture and Tradition

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3
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Very early Christian worship and gathering was structured around the practice of the?

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Eucharist

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The Didache was?

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-Dated to the 1st century
-teaching from the disciples for church
*16 chapters
*Virtuous way of life
*The Lord’s Prayer in its full current version
*Instructions for fasting
*Some church organization
*Instructions for baptism
*Refence to Abortion

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Councils and Synods are the same thing?

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-Councils are legally conviened assemblies of ecclesiastical dignitaries and theological experts for the purpose of discussing and regulating matters of church doctrine and discipline.
-Synods are held locally, within various regions of the world, to deal with local disciplinary issues. Discuss byt nor resolve

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The first empire-wide persecution was:

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Decius (249–251)

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The “lapsi” are:

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Those who compromised and renounced their faith to avoid persecution

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8
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Constantine made Christianity legal by the Edict of Milan in the year:

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313 CE

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In the late fourth century, there was concern about music in worship because:

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Pagan influence
Sensuality of the arts
Certain instruments forbidden

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10
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All 27 books of the New Testament were finally agreed on by:

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All 27 NT books – finally confirmed by councils of Hippo (393 CE) and Carthage (397 CE)

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An important issue discussed at the Council of Nicaea in the early 4th century was:

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-Arianism
*Consubstantial unity
*Date of Easter
*Supress the Melitian sect
*Did address the Trinity, the
biblical Canon

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An important issue discussed at the Council of Nicaea in the late 9th century was:

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Iconoclasm
Veneration and Adoration

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13
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Monasticism was about:

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Perfection and Maryrtdom

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Apostolic succession was:

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The idea that all the popes succeed from Peter, who was given the keys to heaven and hell

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Christendom is:

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The “Christian world”
*where Christianity dominates
imperium (political authority)
Sacerdotium (church authority)
Studium (intellectual authority )

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Liturgy is best defined as:

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-to edify the congregation
-a form or formulary according to which public religious worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted
-what the people do

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17
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The Eastern Orthodox cross has this characteristic:

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The sign above Jesus and the cross on the bottom, where he is standing (focuses on the victory of Jesus,
not suffering)

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18
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The most correct order of the church year is:

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The Church Year
*Advent – 4 Sundays
*Christmas – 12 days
*Epiphany – Mission
*Shrove Tuesday
*Lent – Ash Wednesday
*Passion days
-Palm Sunday
-Maundy Thursday
-Good Friday
*Easter
-Resurrection
-Ascension
-Pentecost

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19
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The four-fold model of worship is:

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-Entrance/Gathering
-Service of the Word
-Service of the Table
-Sending out/Dismissa

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20
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The Great Schism of the 11th century was between:

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-The East and the West
-Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox

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21
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The term “filioque” relates to:

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“and the Son” at the end of the Nicene creed, added by the Catholic pope without the calling of a council

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22
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A Papal Bull is:

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Public Decree that the Pope uses, and when he does, he is supposedly infallible. (edict)

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23
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The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches both believe this about the infallibility of the
Pope:

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They are equal authority, bit rome wanted to be more equal

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24
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The Crusades around the 11th to 14th centuries CE were:

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to kick the Muslim “infidels” out of the Holy Land
-Officially sanctioned war efforts

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25
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The first major Crusade was in the year:

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1096 CE

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26
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Frederick Barbarossa’s crusade:

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-Well Organized
-Drowned before he got to the Holy Land

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27
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Key cities in the crusades:

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Jerusalem, Constantinople, Acre, Antioch, Edessa, Zara

28
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What are the seven sacraments?

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  1. Eucharist
  2. Baptism
  3. Confirmation
  4. Reconciliation (confession, penance)
  5. Anointing of the sick (unction)
  6. Orders (Ordination)
  7. Marriage
29
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The Waldensians (late 12th century) did not reject:

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Personal choice faith, rebaptism, Lord’s supper (once a year), foot-washing

30
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Medieval church buildings tended to emphasize:

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transcendence of God

31
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The simple meaning of sacrament

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means of grace

32
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In the Orthodox Church, the sanctuary is:

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part of eternity

33
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The issues that contributed to the Protestant Reformation:

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Simony (paying to be a priest)
Greed and scandal
Transubstantiation
Indulgences

34
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Martin Luther posted his “95 theses” on the church door in:

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Wittenberg, October 31, 1517

35
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Zwingli was opposed to:

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-The mass
-Any real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist
-Music and Icons in the church
-Celibacy and fasting

36
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John Calvin wrote:

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Institutes of Christian Religion

37
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Henry VIII separated the Church of England from Rome because:

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He wanted to divorce his wife becuase she did not give him a son

38
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The King James Bible was translated in which decade?

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1604-1611

39
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Anabaptist literally means:

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“One who baptizes again”

40
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Which group believes in no visible ordinance or sacrament

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Quakers

41
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Many believe the age of Reason began with this person:

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Descartes

42
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The Regulative Principle proposes that:

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Only practices prescribed in scripture could be used.

43
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The Great Awakening is associated with the following leader:

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Wesley, Whitfield

44
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Which of the following was part of the camp meeting service?

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Prayer, praise, fervent preaching, the harvest.

45
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The age of reason resulted in which of the following in the church?

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Fundamentalism

46
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The Azuza Street revival was about:

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Diversity, pentecostal movement

47
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Which of the following was characteristic of Christian fundamentalism?

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-Reaction to liberalism and modernist thinking
-can be militant
-Completely literal interpretation of the Bible
-Biblical inerrancy as necessary
-Rejected evolution and most science
-Pan-denominational
-Connected with religious extremism

48
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Dispensationalism is connected with:

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Evangelicalism(?)/ Latter Rain Movement

49
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The free church movement believed strongly in:

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Autonomy (of the local church)

50
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The praise and worship movement

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-emerged in the 60s-70s about the Jesus Movement
-desire for intimacy with God and community
-Characteristics (music was dead, desire for intimacy with God, undoes some reason and enlightenment, recapture Davidic movement/acts)
-distinguished praise from worship

51
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The following was a result of Vatican II

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-Described the church as “people of God”
-Gave more authority to bishops
-Affirmed scripture of salvation (academic reading)
-affirmed greater participation of laity- vernacular
-Centrality of preaching and architecture
-Congregational song encouraged
-Psalms and intercessory prayer
-Crucifix (not always)

52
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Dispensationalism is connected with which version of the Bible?

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Scofield Reference Bible (1909)

53
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The pioneer of the 20th century seeker service model was:

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Bill Hybels (1980s, Chicago)

54
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Liturgical renewal happened among some evangelicals at the end of the 20th century

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-relates both to historic renewal in liturgical
churches and to the rediscovery of liturgy
- Emphasizes symbol and ritual
- Participation oriented

55
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Which are the “hallmarks of postmodernity”?

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-Tolerance
-Subjective truth
-Individual choice
-hunger for community
-hunger for the spiritual

56
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According to a recent study by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the percentage of Canadians who claim to be evangelical is:

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6%

57
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Hellenism is…

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Greekness and Greek culture

58
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Baptism replaced…

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Circumcision

59
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Montanism is…

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A group of people who claimed to have charismatic power abandoned by the rest of the church. (surfacedin phygria)

60
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Donatism is…

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Emphasis on the purity of the church. Believed that clergy must be faultless.

61
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Persian Christians and Nestorianism

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Persians were being persecuted for Christianity because it was a Roman thing, so they went as far as they could the other way– Nestorianism

62
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The Carolingians are…

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A royal line (pressed for reform, new model for Christain kingship, canon law). Came out of Frace

63
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The fall of the Byzantine Empire

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Fell to Ottoman Empire (Turks),
Center shifted to Russia (became 3rd Rome)

64
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The Pietists were…

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-known as the religion of the heart
-beginning of evangelicalism
-those who stressed Gods love

65
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Japanese Christians in the 1870s

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Last anti-chrsitain edicts were lifted
Samurai class were most open to new faith

66
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The United Church of Canada

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Was formed in 1925 with Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists.

67
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According to the Didache, Baptism was to be done

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In living water (cold running water)

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