Theology II Test #2 Flashcards
Ecclesiology
The technical term for Christian teaching about the Church
Body of Christ
A biblical image that emphasizes the unity of the one body and the diversity of its various parts (consensus)
Bride of Christ
Another biblical image that emphasizes the union between Christ and his Church as well as the abiding difference between them (consensus)
Marks of the church
The four adjectives that are confessed about the Church in the Nicene Creed: one, holy, catholic, and apostolic (consensus)
Unity
The Church is one, as Jesus prays for us to be, though this is difficult to see amid our present divisions (consensus)
Holiness
The Church is holy, as its Lord is holy, though again it is difficult to see this amid our sinfulness (consensus)
Catholicity
: The Church is catholic, because it gathers peoples from across the
whole world and across time, and yet is wholly present wherever any group of believers gathers
together (consensus)
Apostolic Succession
Authority in the Church is connected to a traceable line of church leaders who have been appointed from the apostles onward. Closely connected in the Catholic Church is the papacy, the identification of the Pope (Latin, papa) as the successor of the apostle Peter in Rome (diversity)
Apostolicity
The Church is apostolic because it passes on the faith and witness of the apostles of Christ—though Protestants differ from Catholics and Eastern Orthodox on how
this faith is passed on (consensus)
Donatist Controversy
A “purity-ecclesiology” that led to a division (Greek, schisma) from the Church because of impure leadership (aberrant).
Mixed Body
The acknowledgment that, like the field in Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares (Matt 13:24-30), the Church will be made up of sinners and saints until Jesus returns (consensus)
Constantinianism
The Church’s manipulation by or abuse of political power, was associated with the conversion of Roman Emperor Constantine to Christianity in the early fourth century (aberrant).
Sacrament
A visible sign of invisible, or spiritual, grace. While most Christians accept this term and definition, some prefer “ordinances” (diversity)
Sacramental
A sacrament-like thing, especially in Catholic theology and practice,
through which God offers us grace. Examples include a crucifix or rosary (diversity)
Eucharist
From the Greek term “to give thanks,” one term for what is also called Holy Communion or the Lord’s Supper. All three are biblical (consensus)
Priest of all believers
A Protestant emphasis on all believers as participating in the priestly work of the Church (diversity)
Consubstantiation
A Lutheran interpretation of Communion in which the body and
blood of Christ is consumed “with” (Latin, con-) the bread and wine (diversity)
Ordinances
A term associated with Zwingli’s view of baptism and communion as obedience to Jesus’ commands and symbolic of grace already given to us by God, apart from the
actual acts (diversity)
Eschatology
The technical term for Christian teaching about what comes “last”
Eschatological tension
In some ways, the “end” has already broken into the present, but it has not yet fully come (consensus)
Already
The kingdom of God has “already” come in Jesus Christ, his birth, ministry,
death, resurrection, and ascension; in the outpouring of his Spirit on his Church; and in our experience of salvation (consensus)
Not Yet
The kingdom of God has “not yet” come in its fullness, as it will when Christ returns, the dead are raised, evil is judged, and all things are made new (consensus)
Realized eschatology
Another way of talking about the “already” character of the kingdom of God. Sometimes, however, Christians talk as if everything God will do is already happening as if the eschaton is entirely realized (consensus)
Eschatological reservation
A recognition that some things have not yet taken place in God’s plans for the future (consensus)
Parousia
A Greek word meaning “presence” or “coming” (e.g., Matt 24:3) and
used, even in English theology, to refer to the second coming of Christ (consensus)
Eager Expectation
How we ought to live as Christians awaiting glorification: in eager expectation of Christ’s second coming (consensus)
The Day and the Hour
Attempts to predict the exact time of Christ’s return. Jesus himself tells us that no one knows this except the Father (Matt 24:36) (aberrant)
Resurrection
The true return of people to true life from true death by the unique the intervention of God the Creator (consensus)
Easter
Jesus rises from the dead, both in his same body and mysteriously
transformed (consensus)
The General Resurrection
All people, saved and unsaved, will return
to bodily life at the end. Christians will find their body transformed to be like Christ’s glorious body, freed from the power and effects of sin, sickness, and death (consensus)
Intermediate state
Christians remain conscious between death and resurrection, in an in-between (i.e., intermediate) state in which their souls, separated from their bodies live in the presence of Christ. (diversity—majority)
Soul sleep
Christians and others sleep between death and their reawakening at resurrection (diversity- minority)
New Creation
God will make all things new at the end, a new creation freed from the power and effects of sin, death and the devil (consensus)
Righteous Judgement
God will pass final judgment on all sins at the end of time, excluding those outside Christ—and therefore, still in sin—from his presence (consensus)
Purgatory
A place in which the dead who have sin remaining in them are purged and
wholly cleansed to be fit for God’s presence in heaven (diversity)
According to the Nicene Creed the Holy Spirit is the
“Giver of life”
The church is made up of those who are
In Christ
When does the church begin?
Israel, with Abraham
True or false: The Church is the communion of the saints
True
What are the four classical marks of the church
Holy, Apostolic, catholic, unity
What does it mean for the church to be on mission
It is a call to the church in the power of the Spirit.
What is ministry leadership about
Following Christ and calling others to do so as well.
Is sacrament known as a means of grace?
Yes
What are the sacraments?
Baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, Marriage, Unction, Reconciliation, Holy Orders
What are the ordinances
Lords Supper, Baptism
What Jewish practices are linked to our practice of Baptism?
Circumcision
Christ is the one true…
sacrament
What is the difference between evangelism and outreach?
Evangelism is calling others to follow Christ and Outreach is following Chirst by loving the churches neighbors
some of the last things:
Christians, churches, new creation, Christ
Cosmological signs
Famines, earth quakes, darkened skyes, ….
Anthropological signs
False prophets, false messiahs, wars, anti-christ
What does the glorius return of Christ mean?
The public, universal revelation of Christ’s Lordship
epiphaia
The appearing of Christ
What will Jesus do when he returns
raise the dead, judge all people, and to make all things new
Deification
Diversity
True or false… the judgement has already taken place
yes
Universalism
All people will be saved… aberrant
Annihilationism
The belied that non believers simply cease to exist
