Study Guide - Theology Flashcards by Jonathan Franzone

List four kinds of theology.

a. Biblical Theology
b. Historical Theology
c. Practical Theology
d. Systematic Theology

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Name four of the methods by which God specifically revealed Himself and His will in the Old Covenant.

a. Dreams
b. Visions
c. Angels
d. Face-to-Face
e. General Revelation / Special Revelation
f. Prophecy
g. Scripture
h. Theophany
i. Christophany
j. Writing on the Wall

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The idea that God the Creator has revealed Himself in His work is known as_______________.

General Revelation (Natural Revelation)

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______________ is where God revealed Himself through the prophets, apostles, and His Son, and as these were divinely recorded in Scripture.

Special Revelation (Supernatural Revelation)

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_______________ is the supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit upon divinely chosen men by which their writings become trustworthy and authoritative.

Inspiration

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______________ is the term used to describe the facts that the word of God perfectly achieves its end, gives us reliable testimony, and provides us with an authoritative norm for faith and life.

Infallible

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What is the interpretive method required by the rules of grammar and the facts of history?

Grammatico-Historical Method

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What is meant by “analogy of faith”?

Scripture interprets scripture

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The term that refers to the list of books recognized by the church as the authoritative word of God.

The Canon

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These thirteen extra-canonical books were accepted at the Council of Carthage (397) as suitable for reading but were rejected by the Reformers as unworthy and contradictory to the accepted canon of Scripture.

The Apocrypha

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The _________________ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament.

The Septuagint

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List three ways that God makes Himself known.

a. Creation
b. Scripture
c. His Son

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________________ means with no error in anything it teaches, whether historical, scientific, or spiritual. It is that characteristic of Scripture which assures that the original autographs were wholly without error or fault in all matters it touches upon in relation to history, science, geography, or whatever.

Inerrant

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_________________ means extending to the whole of the written word; no part of it is less inspired than any other part.

Plenary

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_________________ extends to the very words used. The words themselves are inspired.

Verbal Inspiration

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___________________ is a construction of theology based on an analysis of creation.

Natural Theology

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Identify these four Old Testament names for God and their meaning:
a. ________ This name stresses the idea of might, strength, power.

El, or Elohim

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Identify these four Old Testament names for God and their meaning:
b. ________ is a name usually translated “Lord.” It bears the connotation of “to judge, rule.”

Adonai

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Identify these four Old Testament names for God and their meaning:
c. ________ signifies “power.” But rather than pointing to power in creation, it suggests the use of power for gracious, saving purposes. God appeared to Abraham by this name (Ex. 6:2).

Shaddai or El Shaddai

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Identify these four Old Testament names for God and their meaning:
d. ________ The special covenantal name of God. It occurs 6823 times in the Old Testament.

Yahweh or Jehovah

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Identify these two New Testament Names of God and their meaning.
a. ________ is the Greek equivalent of el and elohim. It is a generic term that is also applied to false gods.

Theos

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Identify these two New Testament Names of God and their meaning.
b. ________ is the name translated “Lord.”

Kurios

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Those distinguishing characteristics and perfections, which are predicated of God in Scripture and without which He would cease to be God are called the ________.

The Divine Attributes

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They are those attributes which emphasize the absolute being of God Himself. There is little analogous to these attributes in the human spirit.

Incommunicable Attributes

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They are those attributes which emphasize the personal nature of God. These bear the nearest analogy to those in the human spirit.

Communicable Attributes

List three of the incommunicable attributes of God.

a. Independence b. Infinity c. Immutability

List four of the communicable attributes of God.

a. Spirituality b. Knowledge c. Wisdom d. Goodness e. Holiness f. Righteousness

________ is His eternal plan, which he brings to pass through his work of creation and providence.

The decree of God

From what did God create the world?

Nothing

What are two ways man is different from the animals?

a. Man has a soul. b. Man is made after God‘s own image. c. Man has the mandate to take dominion over the creation.

________ is God’s most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures, and all their actions.

Providence

________ is any lack of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.

Sin

________ is the idea of reckoning to the account of another.

Imputation

The doctrine of ________ asserts that all men inherit natural corruption from their federal head, Adam.

original sin

The term that describes the nature of man has two fundamental parts: body and soul.

Dichotomy

The term that describes the nature of man has three fundamental parts: body, soul, and spirit.

Trichotomy

List six major covenantal administrations.

a. Adamic b. Noahic c. Abrahamic d. Mosaic e. Davidic f. New Covenant

The idea that God the Son exists, since the Incarnation as one person with two distinct natures, one fully human, one fully divine, is known as the ________.

Hypostatic Union

What are the two states of Christ?

a. Humiliation b. Exaltation

What are the three offices of the Son of God?

a. Prophet b. Priest c. King

Identify the following heresies: a. God granted Jesus powers and then adopted him as a Son.

Adoptionism

Identify the following heresies: b. Jesus' divine will overshadowed and replaced the human.

Apollinarianism

Identify the following heresies: c. Jesus was a lesser, created being.

Arianism

Identify the following heresies: d. Jesus was divine but only seemed to be human.

Docetism

Identify the following heresies: e. Dualism of good and bad and special knowledge for salvation.

Gnosticism

Identify the following heresies: f. Jesus gave up some divine attributes while on earth.

Kenosis

Identify the following heresies: g. God is one person in three modes.

Modalism or Sabellianism

Identify the following heresies: h. God is one person.

Unitarianism

Identify the following heresies: i. Jesus had only one nature: divine.

Monophysitism

Identify the following heresies: j. The Trinity is really three separate gods.

Tritheism

What are the four moral states of man?

a. Able to sin/Innocency b. Not able not to sin/Fallen c. Able not to sin/Redeemed d. Not able to sin/Glorified

This Latin term is used to describe the order of salvation.

ordo salutis

The theological term that describes the act by which we become sons of God

Adoption

________ is the forensic declaration of God that a person is now clean in His sight on the sole basis of the righteousness of Christ imputed to them.

Justification

________ is the continual working of the Spirit in the believer to bring about growth in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctification

________ is a saving grace whereby a sinner genuinely turns from his sin.

Repentance

The idea that men cease to exist after death is known as ________.

Annihilationism

The teachings and practices that are neither commanded nor forbidden in scripture.

Adiaphora

The study of the Christian church, its structure, order, practices, and hierarchy.

Ecclesiology

The branch of philosophy that deals with the area of knowledge, its source, criteria, kinds, and the relationship between what is known and the one who is knowing it.

Epistemology

The study of the teachings in the Bible concerning the end times, or of the period of time dealing with the return of Christ and the events that follow.

Eschatology

________ is when a person interprets a text based solely on what it says. That is, he extracts out of the text what is there as opposed to reading into it what is not there.

Exegesis

When God is described as having human form (e.g., with feet, hands, mouth, etc.), we call this ________.

Anthropomorphism

The view that the moral law is not binding upon Christians as a rule of life is known as ________.

Antinomianism

The field of study that deals with the positive defense of the faith is known as ________.

Apologetics

Falling away from the Christian faith is known as ________.

Apostasy

The assertion that each bishop is a true successor of the apostles is known as the theory of ________.

Apostolic Succession

The doctrine that extreme self-denial and austerity releases the soul from bondage to the body and permits union with the divine.

Asceticism

The doctrine that those who are elect may know without doubt is known as ________.

Assurance

________ is the denial of the existence of God.

Atheism

A theological error prevalent starting in the second century A.D. Generally speaking, it taught that salvation is achieved through special knowledge.

Gnosticism

________ is the teaching that ordination imparts special abilities/powers necessary for the operation of the ministry. Also, the teaching that grace is administered through the one so ordained.

Sacerdotalism

What is the three-fold use of the law?

a. Usus politicus or civilis Civil: to restrain sin and promote righteousness. b. Usus elenchticus or pedagogicus. Bring conviction of sin. c. Usus didacticus or normativus. A rule of life for believers.

What are the three divisions of the Law?

a. Moral b. Ceremonial c. Civil

What are the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church?

a. The Eucharist b. Confirmation c. Reconciliation d. Anointing of the Sick e. Holy orders f. Marriage g. Baptism

A ________ is a sacred covenant rite or ritual immediately instituted by God in His Church.

sacrament

What two sacraments did Christ institute for the New Testament phase of His Church?

a. Baptism b. Lord‘s Supper

What does baptism signify and seal?

a. Engrafting into Christ b. Remission of sins c. Regeneration by the Holy Spirit d. Adoption by God e. Resurrection to newness of life f. Admission to the visible church

What are the four historical views of the Lord’s Supper?

a. Roman Catholic: Transubstantiation, wherein the elements become the body and blood. b. Lutheran: Consubstantiation, wherein the elements are so surrounded by the presence of the ubiquitous Christ that to consume the elements is to consume Christ. c. Zwinglian: Symbolic, wherein the elements are only signs of the absent Christ. d. Reformed: Signs and seals, wherein the elements are signs that serve also as dynamic seals of grace.

What are the proper elements of the Lord’s Supper?

a. Bread b. Wine

________ is that state wherein we are brought to completion of holiness and settled forever in the blessed presence of God.

Glorification

The idea that God is separate from or above His creation is known as the ________.

transcendence of God

The idea of God’s immediate presence in the creation is known as the ________.

immanence of God

The idea of ________ points to the view that God restrains the destructive process of sin within mankind in general, enabling men to make a positive contribution to the cultural mandate given to Adam.

common grace

What is the cultural mandate? Where is it found in Scripture?

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1:28)

A person who says he is not sure if there is a god.

Agnostic

A person who believes in many gods.

Polytheist

A person who believes there is but one God.

Monotheist

A person who identifies the universe with God.

Pantheist

A person who believes God exists but that He does not intervene in the natural order.

Deist

A person who believes that the God of the Bible is the only true and living God.

Christian Theist

Cite two passages of Scripture in which the doctrine of the Trinity is seen.

a. Matt. 3:16 b. Matt. 28:19 c. 2 Cor. 13:14 d. 1 Peter 1:2

Name three basic heresies with regard to the Trinity.

a. Modalism b. Patrapassianism c. Dynamic monarchianism

The ________ is the term used to describe the fact that the three persons of the Godhead are equal in substance and power.

Ontological Trinity

The ________ recognizes the distinctions of function between the three persons of the Godhead.

Economical Trinity

What is the Latin term for “creation out of nothing"?

Ex Nihilo

A supernatural act in the created realm in which God manifests Himself as Lord and inspires wonder.

Miracle

What are two orders of angels?

a. Cherubim b. Seraphim

________ teaches that human nature is sufficient, man possesses a free will that can choose between good or evil, and that man’s nature has no inclination toward evil.

Pelagianism

A mutually binding agreement between God and His people sovereignly transacted by the Lord wherein a promise is made by God which calls for trust on the part of His people and entails obligations of submission which are sanctioned by blessings and curses.

Covenant

The millennial view that says that Christ will return before the millennium with an earthly millennium of prosperity.

Premillennialism

The millennial view that says that the millennium is between the first and second comings of Christ, that this will be an increasing period of prosperity for the gospel, and that Christ will return after the millennium.

Postmillennialism

The millennial view that says we are in the millennium now, but that the blessings of the millenniums are not outward but rather the inward blessings of the church and in the heart.

Amillennialism

________ is the turning away of the wrath of God by an offering.

Propitiation

________ is the purging of sin by sacrifice, providing forgiveness.

Expiation

Name, in a summary form, the Ten Commandments.

a. Thou shall have no other gods before me. b. Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image. c. Thou shall not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. d. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. e. Honor thy father and thy mother. f. Thou shall not murder. g. Thou shall not commit adultery. h. Thou shall not steal. i. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour. j. Thou shall not covet any thing that is thy neighbour‘s.

What are the “five points of Calvinism”?

a. Total Depravity b. Unconditional Election c. Limited Atonement d. Irresistible Grace e. Perseverance of the Saints

Name four “marks” of a true church.

a. Preaching of the Word b. The sacraments c. Discipline d. Love for the saints

________ is the form of church government in which the members of a local congregation rule themselves.

Congregationalism

A ________ form of church government is that system in which the church is ruled by a plurality of elders.

Presbyterian

An ________ form of church government is that system in which the church is ruled by a bishop or bishops.

Episcopal

The period of time between the death of man and the final resurrection.

Intermediate State

________ is the belief that there exists a place after death where some of the sins of Christians are purged through suffering.

Purgatory

What are three basic interpretations of the book of Revelation?

a. Historical b. Futurist c. Preterist

________ focused on existential and psychological aspects of religious experience and denounces the literalism of the Bible. Experience with the divine is what makes scripture real.

Neo-orthodoxy

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