Theology Test Questions and Answers Flashcards
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Define monotheism
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There is one infinite, personal, righteous God
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Which of the five authorities of the Bishop is most important relative to the Bishop
and his theology?
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Teaching Authority
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How many ecumenical councils have been held in Christian history?
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21 Church councils
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Which of the ecumenical councils more specifically addresses the teaching authority
of the Bishop?
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Council of Trent (1545-1563)
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Define systemic theology
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systematic theology: is the division of theological information into systems that explain its various areas.
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Define biblical theology
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biblical theology is a study of a certain book or books of the Bible and emphasizing the different aspects of theology it focuses on.
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Define dogmatic theology:
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dogmatic theology is the study of the doctrines of certain groups that have systematized doctrine.
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Define contemporary theology:
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Contemporary theology is the study of doctrines that have developed or come into focus in recent times.
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Be able to identify at least three (Prosperity, Liberation, and Kingdom)
contemporary theologies.
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- Prosperity theology: a religious Christian doctrine that teaches that financial blessing is the will of God for all Christians.
- Liberation theology emphasizes the Christian mission to bring justice to the poor and oppressed, through political activism.
- Black liberation theology seeks to liberate people of color from multiple forms of political, social, economic and religious subjugation
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Define Dominion theology:
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Dominion theology is the grouping of theological systems with the common belief that society should be governed exclusively by the law of God as codified in the Bible. (Not just dominion over the church, but over all the earth so that the bible is the law of the land.”
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Define two streams of Dominion theology:
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Christian Reconstructionism and Kingdom now
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Know the significant fact of dominion theology is that Jesus cannot or will not return until the Church has taken dominion by gaining control of the earth’s governmental and social institutions.
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Know the significant fact of dominion theology is that Jesus cannot or will not return until the Church has taken dominion by gaining control of the earth’s governmental and social institutions.
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Be able to define the doctrine of election:
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The doctrine brought forward by John Calvin that teaches, that God providentially chooses whom he will give salvation to.
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Define 5 point Calvinism: (Tulip)
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- Total depravity
- Unconditional election
- Limited atonement
- Irresistible grace
- Perseverance of the saints
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Paterology
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study of God the Father
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Christology
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study of God the Son, Jesus Christ
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Study of Pneumatology
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the study of God the Holy Spirit
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Bibliology
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study of the Bible
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Soteriology
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the study of salvation
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Ecclesiology
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study of the church
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Eschatology
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study of the end times
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Angelology
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the study of angels
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Demonology
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the study of demons from a Christian perspective
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Anthropology
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the study of humanity
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Hamartiology
the study of sin
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Name the person who influenced protestant theology between 1483 and 1546?
Martin Luther
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Name the person who influenced protestant theology between 1509 and 1564?
John Calvin
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Name the person who influenced protestant theology between 1560 and 1609?
Jacobus Arminius
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Name the person who influenced protestant theology between 1703 and 1791?
John Wesley
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Define the word deity:
the divine character and nature of God
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Define the word divine
relating to or coming from God
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The doctrine of eternal security
Calvinistic theology, which suggests, “once saved always saved.” Salvation cannot be lost
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Be familiar with the origin of the doctrine of eternal security
John Calvin: Perseverance of the Saints: “Believers can not fall away from the state of grace.”
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Be able to explain our view of the end of time from the church age through the kingdom
(millennium) established on earth.
The four views of the end times:
• Historical Premillennialism – sequence: Church age, great tribulation, second coming, millennium and then eternity. The church will remain on earth during
the tribulation and the second coming of Christ will precede the millennium.
• Amillennialism – sequence: Christ restrains Satan’s power at Calvary, tribulation church age, Millennium occur at the same time, second coming, eternity. This is the spirit reign of Jesus in the hearts of his followers. This is
known as the regeneration.
• Dispensational Premillennialism – sequence: church age, rapture, tribulation, second coming of Christ, Millennium, final judgment and eternity. Dispensational premillennialism is the belief that Jesus will come back to the earth after a seven year tribulation and will rule a thousand years in peace, the church will have been raptured prior to tribulation and will return with Christ at
the second coming.
• Postmillennialism – sequence: church age, tribulation, Millennium, second coming and eternity. This is the belief that the second coming of Christ will occur after the millennium, the world will submit to Christ, Satan will have no power and a period of great tribulation will precede the millennium.
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Doctrine of predestination
Predestination is the doctrine that says God alone chooses (elects) who is saved.
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The origin of the doctrine of predestination:
John Calvin
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Explain dichotomy
is a term, which signifies a division into 2 parts: body and soul.
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Trichotomy
is a term, which signifies a division into 3 parts: body, soul and spirit.
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Explain: pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation and post-tribulation
* Pre-tribulation: the rapture will happen before the tribulation period.
* Mid-tribulation the rapture will occur halfway through the tribulation period.
* Post- the rapture will occur at the end of the tribulation period.
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Tribulation:
Tribulation is that period, seven years, when the Lord will judge the unbelieving godless inhabitants of the earth.
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Define omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
* Omnipresent: In the character of God, he is everywhere at the same time.
* Omnipotent: In the character of God, he is all powerful
* Omniscient: in the character of God, he is all knowing
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Explain modal Monarchianism
There is one person in the Godhead who took three consecutive forms or modes.
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Define Dynamic Monarchianism
Only one person in the Godhead, the Father. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not God.
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Define Tritheism
Tritheism is the belief that there are three distinct powerful, gods who form a triad.
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Be able to distinguish between Tritheism and Trinitarians
Tritheism believes that there are three distinct gods who come together to form a triad; while Trinitarians believe that there is unity, which consists of God the Father, God,
the Son and God, the Holy Spirit. God the Father exists in three persons.
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Define polytheism:
belief in many gods
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Know the teaching of Docetism as it relates to the deity and divinity of Christ
Jesus was truly spirit and only appeared to be a man.
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Gnosticism as it relates to the divinity of Christ:
the belief that Jesus was only a man taken over by the heavenly Christ, which never became incarnate. The heavenly Christ returned to heaven before the crucifixion.
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Arianism as it relates to the divinity of Christ
Jesus was created slightly lower than God, and then Jesus created all things.
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Define inspiration:
God breathed
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Define inerrancy:
The Bible is complete and without error
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Define Hypostatic union:
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man.
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Define Amillennialsim
It is the rejection of the belief that Jesus will have a literal,
thousand year, and physical reign on the earth.
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Define rapture
which means to “carry off” or to “take up,” is the removal of the Church from the world.
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Define Millennium
is the thousand-year reign of Christ
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Tribulation
7- year period when the Lord will judge unbelieving people of the world
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Arminianism
* Total depravity
* Conditional election
* Universal redemption
* Grace can be resisted
* Possibility of falling from grace
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Six arenas in which we do theology:
* Tabloid theology: new and sensational concepts about God.
* Folk theology: old traditions and ideas about God (people are inflexible).
* Lay theology: a layperson that constructs his or her theology based upon learned theological concepts.
* Ministerial theology: educated in theological methodology able to use resources a higher level.
* Professional theology: people who do theology as a profession. Conduct practical original research.
* Academic theology: People who argue the existence of God
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Council of Trent: In the council of Trent there were 80 books:
* 39 Old Testament books
* 14 books of the Apocrypha
* 27 books of the New Testament
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Post Modern Epistemology: why are things the way they are: investigation into the grounds of knowledge.
* Relativism: the belief that all truth is relative, being determined by the individual.
* Subjectivism: the belief that all truth is subjective, being define by the individual.
* Skepticism: the belief that truth cannot be known without certainty
* Perspectivalism: the belief that truth is found in the combined perspectives of many.
* Pragmatism: the belief that which works to accomplish the best outcome ultimately defines truth. The end justifies the means.
* Objectivism: The belief that truth is an objective reality that exists whether someone believes it or not.
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Three periods that impact epistemology:
* Pre-modern (400-1600 AD)
* Modern (1600-1900 AD)
* Post Modern (1980- Present)
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Modernism:
* Reason
* Optimism
* Hope for the future
* Objectivism
* Exclusivism
* Science method
* Man is evolving
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Post Modern:
* Feeling
* Pessimism
* Despair for the present
* Subjectivism/relativism
* Pluralism/inclusivism
* Distrust in science
* Man is devolving
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Modernist:
* Facts
* Rationality
* Evidence
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Post Modernist
* Fairness
* Relationships
* Emotions
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Universalism:
the belief that all people, good or bad will make it to heaven.
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Syncretism
the assimilation of differing beliefs and habits.
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Inclusivism
the belief that salvation is only through Christ, but Christ may also be revealed in other religions.
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Pluralism:
the acceptance of all religious paths to God as equally valid, promoting coexistence.
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Pro-Gay Theology
The Pro-Gay theology seeks to legitimize not just tolerance of homosexuality, but it redefines homosexuality as being God-ordained and morally
permissible
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Holy Spirit
Baptism of the Holy Spirit: A person receives the Baptist of the Holy Spirit at the point of salvation and from that moment on, has the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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Filling of the Holy Spirit
We believe the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the filling of the Holy Spirit are distinct, separate, valid and valuable ministries of the Holy Spirit which
occur simultaneously at salvation.
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The Baptism of the Holy Spirit
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is that work of God
| whereby the believer is immersed into Jesus Christ and into His body which is the church.
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Filled with the Spirit
being “filled with the Spirit,” means being controlled by the Spirit, or under the Spirit’s control.
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Pantheism
The belief that God is the universe.
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Henotheism
belief in one God without denying the existence of other gods.
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Deism
God exists, but is not involved in the world.
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Theism
God exists and is involved in the world.
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Monolatry
belief in more than one God but serve and worship only one.
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Monotheistic
only one God in existence
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Historical theology
; is the study of doctrines and how they have developed over the centuries of the Christian church.
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Theology proper
refers to the specific study of God’s personality and character.
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New Age theology
each living person is god.
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Trinity
one God who exists in three simultaneously in three persons.
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Postmodernism
ultimate reality is purely a matter of individual/social perception
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Prevenient grace
by Jacob Arminius, enables people to choose or reject God’s offer of salvation.
