Mid-Term Flashcards
Theology is…
thinking & speaking about God
Neo-Orthodoxy approach to theology
removes all absolutes
asserts that the Bible is not the Word of God, but it becomes the Word of God through the power of the Holy Spirit
Bibliology
the study of the Bible
2 Pressupossitions
- God is
2. God has revealed Himself
The one central theme of the Bible
Glory of God
Torah means
Law
Nevi’im means
Prophets
Ketuvim means
Writings
The Epistles
Romans 1 & 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1 & Thessalonians 1 & 2 Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James 1 & 2 Peter 1-3 John Jude
Prophecy
Revelation
Canon means
Measuring Rod
When the books became canonical
as far as God is concerned, the books of the Bible were canonical when written
What did the Council of Carthage do
New Testament Canon was completed by AD 397
Principles used to determine canonicity of the NT
(WRITTEN) LIST
Apostolicity
Content
Universality
Divine Inspiration
Apostolicity means
WRITTEN
written by an apostle or by someone closely associated with an apostle
Content means
WRITTEN
on spiritual par with other apostolic books
this ruled out the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha
Universality means
WRITTEN
Was it Universally received in the Church
Divine Inspiration means
WRITTEN
Did the books give evidence of being divinely inspired and did it edify the saints
Apocrypha means
Something Hidden
Homolegomena means
Acknowledged
Antilegomana
disputed
Hebrews disputed because
anonymous authorship
James disputed because
alleged teaching on justification by works
2 Peter disputed because
more than any book in the NT because of its dissimilarities with 1 Peter and its alleged writing after Peter’s death
2 & 3 John disputed because
the author calls himself an “elder” rather than an apostle and because they were private letters with limited circulation
Jude disputed because
it quotes from the Book of Enoch and possibly the Assumption of Moses
Revelation disputed because
its prophetic nature
Pseudepigrapha
false writings`
Septuagint (LXX)
Hebrew into Greek
Vulgate`
Hebrew and Greek into Latin