Unit 1 Test Flashcards
The unfolding of Christian theology throughout the centuries. It blends the disciplines of theology and church history. It focuses on the origin, change, and development of doctrine. Uses historical categories.
Historical Theology
Benefits of historical theology
Orthodoxy Community Faithfulness Individualism Examples Hermeneutics
Age of the Apostles➡️ age of the Christian Fathers ➡️ age of the apologists ➡️age of the theologians
Ancient Period
Scholasticism and Renaissance
Medieval (middle) period
Sholasticism
Reasonable faith, theology and philosophy, Aristotelian
Modern period
Reformation and Modernity
Reformation date
October 31, 1517
Occurred between the reformation and modernity
Enlightenment
Reasoned defense of the faith
Apologetics
Polemics
Defending against heresy within the church
Three different kinds of apologetics
Classic, evidential, pre-suppositional
Classical apologetics
Stress rational arguments an uses logic to defend Christianity to those outside of the faith.
Evidential Apologetics
Historical evidence
Pre-suppositional apologetics
Starting with pre-suppositions
Origin is…
Where did everything come from? Where did the universe come from? Does God exist?
Meaning is…
What does it mean to be human, self explanatory.
Morality
How should we live? What is right and wrong? Who determines that?
Rationalism
Knowledge begins in the brain
Empiricism
From experience
I think therefore I am
Decartes
Dare to think (sopere aude) - we can reason the physical, but everything else can only be guessed.
Kant
Divine revelation
Knowledge from a higher source
Characteristics of the enlightenment
Power of reason, skepticism, scientific approach, autonomy, optimism
Prolegomena
Beginning words
Bibliology
Doctrine of the Bible
Theology
Doctrine of God
Ktisiology
Study of creation
Angelology
Doctrine of Angels as Demons
Anthropology
Doctrine of humans
Christology
Doctrine of Christ
Hanartiology
Doctrine of sin
Pneumatology
Doctrine of Homy Spirit
Eschatology
Doctrine of the end times
Ecclesiology
Doctrine of the church
Soteriology
Doctrine of salvation
Orthodoxy
Right belief
Orthopraxy
Right practice (life)
Dogma-
A particular belief of a people
Theism
Belief that there is a God
Monotheism
One God
Polytheism
Many Gods
Deism
A distant creator god, religion without revelation. Natural theology
Finite
God is everything and everything is God- denies God- everything is one.
Pantheism
God is everything and everything is God.
Monism
One impersonal element constitutes reality
Panentheism
Everything is part of God
Syncretism
Combining 2 types of religions.
Epistemology
What can we know?