Final Exam Flashcards
Which biblical book did NOT get special attention in Augustine’s work?
a. John’s Gospel
b. Psalms
c. Proverbs
d. Genesis
e. Romans
c. Proverbs
In Augustine’s geographical imagery of Psalm 119 (modern 120), Christ was symbolized in:
a. The Valley of Weeping
b. The Mountain
c. Both
d. Neither
c. Both
T/F: As Augustine preached, secretaries busily transcribed every word he said. They even captured details like the humidity of the air or the entrance of a stranger or the mistake of the reader.
True
Augustine chose the lasting word “doctrina” for the title of his work on interpreting the Bible. This word’s dual sense refers to both the ___ of teaching and the ___ of teaching.
- Joy
- Struggle
- act
- book
- equipment
- content
- wages
- Joy
- Struggle
T/F: Augustine was extremely humbled by his ordination, which brought him to tears. It was the culmination and fulfillment of long held dream to bring his spiritual wisdom to the Church as a priest and later as a bishop.
False
Augustine echoed the claims of Cicero about the purpose of rhetoric. Which of the following?:
a. To instruct the mind with truth
b. To delight the heart with beauty
c. To move the will to act
d. All of these
d. All of these
T/F: Augustine strongly disapproved of the practice of preachers using the sermons of other preachers, for this imitated the plagiaristic practices of the pagans.
False.
Augustine said that it was characteristic of the human heart that the movement of one’s understanding from a sign to the reality that it represents was like waving a torch in the wind, increasing one’s ___ in the heart.
a. Love
b. Guilt
c. Dreams
d. Nostalgia
a. Love
“Transfiguration” in Augustine’s thinking refers to:
a. Appearing in white before the apostles Peter, James, and John
b. The bond of unity between Adam and Eve given to Christian couples
c. Christ taking up believers into his body so his suffering becomes theirs
d. The movement from sign to reality that stirs love in the heart
c. Christ taking up believers into his body so his suffering becomes theirs
Augustine famously said “Love, and do what you will,” in connection with:
a. Living arrangements with a concubine
b. Tough laws v. Manichean heresy
c. Cocercion of Donatists
c. Cocercion of Donatists
The Curcumcellions formed a special wing of the Donatist movement known for:
a. Negotiation
b. Worship
c. Study
d. Violence
e. Good works
d. Violence
T/F: For Augustine, Christian baptism is valid even when it occurs at the sinners and compromised, but, BUT not even the love of Christ can validate baptism by someone who has betrayed the church like a Judas.
False
Augustine debated Donatists over the legacy of a great 3rd century North African bishop: a. Cyprian b. Tertullian c. Ambrose D. Victorinus
a. Cyprian
T/F: One of the striking features of Augustine’s attitude toward government intervention in religious affairs, particularly in relation to Donatists, is its consistency from ordination in 391 until death in 430.
False
Y/N: Is any part of the statement false?
“Tyconius was a Donatist. He was a thinker whom Augustine admired and quoted. Tyconius wrote on matters of how to read the Bible. He was excommunicated from the Donatist community.
No. This is all true.
When Augustine said that Donatists were not Catholic, in his mind he was saying they were not:
a. Submissive to the Pope
b. Correct about the Trinity
c. Found throughout the whole world
c. Found throughout the whole world
When Donatists accused Catholics of being a church of “traditores,” what were they referring to?
Traitors. Literally means to “hand over.” Emperor Diocletian was violent against Christians and ordered Christian books to be handed over and destroyed. Fellow Christians called those who submitted “traitores,” people who betrayed like Judas.
T/F: Augustine argues in “The City of God” that the church enjoys its own, unique kind of peace that is completely separate from, indeed antithetical to, worldly peace.
False
In his famous summary characterizing the two cities, Augustine says that spiritual Jerusalem and spiritual Babylon are distinguished by two kinds of ___.
Love
Books 1-10 of “The City of God” argues primarily against the gods of the ___.
a. Mesopotamians
b. Egyptians
c. Romans
d. Norse
c. Romans
Books 11-22 of “The City of God” explains the truth Christianity mainly by using the Bible’s ___.
a. History
b. Poetry
c. Laws
d. Letters
e. Genealogies
a. History
Pelagius reacted badly to Augustine’s statement in “Confessions” 10.29.40: “Give what you command, and then command whatever you will.” This sentence expands briefly and essentially on Augustine’s understanding, taken mainly from Paul’s letters, of God’s ___.
a. Power
b. Law
c. Spirit
d. Grace
e. Judgement
d. Grace
T/F: Augustine claimed that Adam’s sin affected Adam only, not his descendants, except indirectly.
False
Explain briefly how Christ is a “pediatrician.”
Christ is the savior of babies because babies are born corrupted due to Original Sin.
Reaction to what precipitating event led Augustine to writing “The City of God?”
The Sack of Rome
