Unit 1

Question 1

Theology

Answer 1

The study of the things of God

Question 2

Ecumenical

Answer 2

Meaning “the entire inhabited earth,” this term refers especially to the teaching of the whole church across the centuries and around the globe.

Question 3

Doctrine

Answer 3

Distinct Christian teachings; the overall content of our faith

Question 4

Dogma

Answer 4

Christian teaching at the highest level of authority and trustworthiness; share ecumenical agreement

Question 5

Creed

Answer 5

Brief statements of faith in a mature form that enjoy broad recognition as faithful summaries of key scriptural teachings

Question 6

Orthodoxy

Answer 6

Right Christian belief.

Question 7

Heresy

Answer 7

Beliefs that have been rejected by the church.

Question 8

The Wesleyan Quadrilateral

Answer 8

Model for thinking about sources and authority for theology that includes scripture, tradition, reason, and experience

Question 9

General Revelation

Answer 9

Typically refers to God’s self–disclosure in creation and the human conscience

Question 10

Special Revelation

Answer 10

Refers to God’s specific self-revelation in the history of Israel, the Incarnation of Jesus, and Scripture

Question 11

Prayer

Answer 11

Conversation with God through which we come to know him better and develop greater reliance on him.

Question 12

Inspiration

Answer 12

The Spirit’s work as the author of Scriptures

Question 13

Canon

Answer 13

Means “measured” and it refers to the whole of Scripture as the measuring stick for Christian faith and life

Question 14

Marcion

Answer 14

Around the year 140, this man pushed for the church to adopt a coherent collection of texts, and he proposed his own list

Question 15

Illumination

Answer 15

The ways that the Spirit continues to work in and with God’s people to help us understand and be faithful to what we read in Scripture

Question 16

Patripassianism

Answer 16

suggestion God the Father died on the cross

Question 17

Scripture

Answer 17

reading, studying, memorizing, meditating upon, and obeying the bible in order to know God and become more like Him

Question 18

Hermeneutics

Answer 18

The task of biblical interpretation

Question 19

Tritheism

Answer 19

The belief that there are three Gods

Question 20

Modalism

Answer 20

In an attempt to protect the oneness of God, this view understands Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three ways in which the one God works in the world

Question 21

Subordinationism

Answer 21

Any view that makes Jesus and the Spirit less than the Father.

Question 22

Adoptionism

Answer 22

The understanding of Jesus that makes him into an ordinary human being who merited the title Son of God. (form of subordinationism)

Question 23

Partialism

Answer 23

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate parts that come together to form God.

Question 24

Arianism

Answer 24

In an attempt to protect the uncreated nature of God, this view taught that Jesus was God’s first and greatest creature.

Question 25

Nicene Creed

Answer 25

This summarizes the affirmations of the Councils held to reject Arianism

Question 26

Homoousias

Answer 26

Meaning same in essence or substance, this term was affirmed of the Son in relation to the Father at the Council of Nicaea

Question 27

Perichoresis

Answer 27

mutual indwelling, this term is used to point to the relational nature of God, such that each person of the trinity indwells the others.

Question 28

Doctrine of Appropriations

Answer 28

Although the works of the triune God are indivisible, while reading the biblical accounts we see that it is fitting to talk about the distinct work that each of the divine persons does in the world.

Question 29

Illumination

Answer 29

The ways that the Spirit continues to work in and with God’s people to help us understand and be faithful to what we read in Scripture