Section 1 Flashcards
Study for Exam 1
Prolegomena
First Words, What is theology and why/how do we do it?
Theology is an exercise in holiness
Rom 12:2 The sanctification of our reason
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
“There are only two ways possible of encountering Jesus: a man must die or he must put Jesus to death.”
Holy Theology
God’s self-communication
Purpose of Theology
To know and understand God’s love, a fear of the Lord, and knowledge.
Theologians purpose
To know God
Theology involves
the putting to death and the bringing to life our thoughts and words about God in repentance and prayer.
Theology is done in service to
the church
Theology is defined
as the “words of God” or “speech about God” or “the study or science of God”
Jesus Christ is our what?
Theology
Systematic theology is
the answering of questions we have with the entirety of the bible
Evangelical theology
a theology that is done in recognition of the God of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The theology of the “good news”
Typical systematic topics
- Theology proper (God)
- Christology
- Anthropology/Hamartiology (humanity and sin)
- Bibliology (scripture)
- Soteriology (salvation)
- Pneumatology (Holy Spirit)
- Angelology
- Ecclesiology (the church)
- Eschatology (last things, end times)
Does what I believe affect what i do?
1 corinthians 6:15 Yes our bodies are joined with Christ
Spectrum of Theology
Folk theology > Lay Theology > Ministerial Theology (goal) < Professional Theology < Academic Theology
Folk theology
Simplistic, experiential, spiritual piety is supreme,
common among people with no church affiliation
Lay Theology
have the desire but not the ability to study faithfully
Ministerial Theology
Reflective faith mixed with the study of professionalism
Professional Theology
a vocation focus on the study tools of theology, professors commonly, strengthened by an advanced training in theology
Academic theology
highly speculative, lacking strong commitment to scripture and christian faith
dogma
beliefs that if you were to abandon them you would be abandoning the faith.
docrine
used to enshrine dogmas and to test fellowship but not essential
opinion
helpful but not necessary
general revelation through nature
Romans 1:20, Psalms 19:1 God is available through nature
General Revelation through history
Job 12:23, Isaiah 10:5-13
General revelation through humanity
Romans 2:11-16 the existence of a moral sense
nature theology is not possible
romans 3 human depravity makes us incapable
can we ever fully know God
no God’s greatness is beyond our understanding Psalms 145:3
God’s word in written form: the bible
2 Tim 3:16
Christ is the word himself
John 1:1
can anything be added to scripture
no Hebrews 1:1 God no longer reveals himself through anything but his son which is the word which we have
All words in scripture are God’s words
2 Timothy 3:16
to disobey the bible is to disobey God
Isaiah 66:1-2
God’s word is truth
John 17:17
Scripture has clarity or means that anyone can study it
2 Peter 3:15-16
Bible affirms its clarity
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Virgin birth
luke 1:35
Human weakness and limitation
Phillippians 2
Christ was subject to fatigue
John 4:6
Christ’s sinlessness
1 John 3:3, hebrews 7:26
Christ in his obedience is our righteousness
1 Corinthians 1:30
Christ is our high preist
Hebrews 2:17
Christ Diety
Titus 2:13
Christ is omniscient
John 2:24
Christ is Omnipotent
Matthew 9:18-19
Three affirmations of the person of Christ
- Christ is truly and fully human
- Christ is truly and fully God
- The diety and humanity of Christ are truly and fully united in one person
Apollinarianism
Christ was not human but fully God
Nestorianism
Christ was human and divine but not joined together
Monophysitism
said that christ was neither fully divine or human but rather something else all together
Homousion
of one nature
