Theology Final Study Set

Agnostisism

__ is the belief that we lack knowledge to determine that God exists

Barabus

Leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate offers to release a prisoner as a sign of goodwill. Who do the people pick?

Sanhedrin

The name of the ruling Jewish leadership in Jerusalem that was responsible for the arrest of Jesus was who?

7

In ancient or Eastern literature, the number ___ is associated with the idea of perfection?

Stephen

As recorded in the book of Acts, the first Christian martyr is a man by the name of what?

Privatized

According to Portier, religion and modernity have become ___ (focused on internal belief and separate from daily life)

False

The analogical approach to religion is one that focuses on the difference between the sacred and profane or God’s creations? (true or false)

Abraham

Judaism and Christianity recognize ___ as the fathers of their faith?

Water

In the first creation myth, in the first chapter of Genesis, God fashions the world out of the primal elements, which are what? (Air, Fire, Earth, ___)

Parables

In Jesus’ attempt to speak the language of the common person, he would often deliver his messages in the form of what?

Passover

The holy period that celebrates the freeing of the Israelites from enslavement in Egypt is what?

Mark

Of the 4 Gospels, which is thought to have been written first?

Saytr

The meal held of the first night of the Jewish celebration of passover is known as what?

Yahweh

When asked by Moses who he should say sent him to Pharaoh to demand the release of the Israelites, God answers with the name ___

12

How many apostles did Jesus call to journey with him during his three-year ministry?

Q

The unknown source from which Matthew and Luke both developed their gospel accounts is commonly referred to as ___

Imago Dei

The ___ is the theological notion that humanity is created in the image and likeness of God?

Modernity

__ is the complex of enlightenment ideals and beliefs within which the field of religious studies emerges?

Ishmael

The name of the son that Abraham had with Hagar, in the book of Genesis, is named what?

Baptism

The Gospel of Mark begins with the story of the __ of Jesus?

Paul

The leader of the early church __ who headed the persecution of Christians by the Jewish leadership until his conversion after a miraculous event on the road to Damascus?

Tradition

The host of historical connections within which we are born, exist, and finally die is referred to as what?

Knowledge of Good and Evil

In the story of the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve break God’s command by eating of the fruit from the tree of ___?

Kenosis

___ refers to the self-emptying love that, according to Christians, was exhibited by Jesus in the incarnation as well as the sacrificing of his life for all of humanity?

Gustavo Gutierrez

Liberation theology, the theological approach that claims that Christian writings and traditions must be interpreted through the lived experiences of the systematically oppressed, is recongized as being founded by who?

Should not

At the Council of Jerusalem, in the book of Acts, early Christians determined that all Jewish converts should or should not follow the Jewish law given to the Israelites along with the 10 commandments?

Midrash

__ is Jewish commentary within which the Jewish community wrestled with tension, contradictions, and even gaps within the Biblical text?

Strict Inerrancy

The belief that the Bible is completely accurate in every possible manner is referred to as what?

Biblical Studies

In academic theology, the subdiscipline that studies the historical, literary, and textual context of the Christian scriptures is known as what?

The Septuagint

The Greek translation of the Old Testament Hebrew scriptures that the church accepted at the Council of Carthage as the definitive presenation of the Jewish scriptures is called what?

Agnosticism

The Christian heresy that taught that Jesus offered secret teachings to his closest disciples included the notion that only some of humanity had intrinsic worth is referred to as what?

Arianism

__ Claims that Jesus was the first of all God’s creation?

revelation

The manner in which God’s self-disclosure to the world is made manifest in the individual person through the work of the Holy Spirit, Portier calls what?

REVELATION

The term to describe God’s self-disclosure to everyone at all times

Historical Criticism (Historical Critical Method)

The German theologian, Adolf von Harnack, brought antisemitism into the heart of what?

Human nature and Divine nature

Christian tradition holds that Jesus Christ, both human and divine, had what?

Pseudepigrapha

The Gospel of Thomas is largely regarded as what?

Martin Luther

__ is the theologian most associated with the theological notion of Sola Scriptura?

Docetism

The early Christian heresy that taught that Jesus only appeared to be a human and thus only acted as though he experienced hunger, pain, and even death is known as what?

Bernard Lonergan

__ was the Christian theologian who believed that the proper theological approach lay in identifying the way that timeless truths of Christian doctrine meet the changes of culture?

Radical Reformation

The __ was a movement of Protest Reformers that called for a complete overhaul of Christian practice?

Deism

__ is the belief that God created the universe and put in place the laws of nature and moral law and then withdrew entirely from creation?

The Council of Carthage

The church council at which the cannon of Christian scriptures was officially determined is named what?

Filioque Clause

The phrase from the Nicene Creed that translates as “and the son” is what?

The Vulgate

The Latin translation of the Bible, formed by Jerome, is called what?

Homoecious

The determination of the church at the Council of Nicaea responds to the heretic Arius, was that Jesus was what with the father?

God Bearer

The Greek theological term Theokotos is used to negate what?

Revelation

Because they had a union that exists between the two senses of religious experience, descriptive and engaged, Portier argues that for religious experience in an engaged term we should use what?

Thomas Aquinas

__ was the author of the massively important Summa Theologia in which they describe theology as the science of faith

Material, Formal, Efficient, and Final

Aristotle’s 4 Causes are what?

False

The current teaching in the Catholic church on indulgences is that an indulgence is when one gives money in exchange for the forgiveness of sins? (true or false)