THEO 1600 Final Exam

Midrash

storeis that develop the story

Akeda

Binding

Hesed

kindness or love between people

Issac

“one who laughs”

Kubler-Ross’ Five Stages of Death and Dying

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Final Acceptance

Creed

Common beliefs

Cult

come together

Code

Implications for and for how we live

Superego

Other voices

Conscience

Taking responsibility before God

What are the two notions of sin in the Bible?

Missing the Mark

Broken relationships

What did Karl Messinger’s book ask?

What ever became of sin?

Nostra Aetate

Vatican II document on Catholic/Jewish relations with the world

What are the three foundational theological elements of Islam?

1. Belief in omnipotent creative Deity
2. Centrality of revealed scripture
3. Necessity of prophets to communicate the mind of the deity.

What are the shared characteristics of the the three Abrahamic religions?

Belief in One God

Allah

“The God” in Arabic

Holy Book of Islam

Qur’an

What are the five pillars of Islam?

1. Fasting
2. Almsgiving
3. Prayer
4. Profession of Faith
5. Pilgrimage

Three obstacles to honest talk about race:

1. We do not **know what** we are talking about.
2. We do not **know how** to talk about it.
3. We do not **really want** to talk about it.

What are Kelhoffer’s 4 Principles of Interpretation?

1. Author
2. Audience
3. Opponent
4. Purpose

What is the Controversey of the early church that solicited a strong response from the Apostle Paul?

Jesus will or has returned as is alive

Why did the gnostic gospel make Judas the hero of the story of Jesus?

Judas turned Jesus in allowing the Passion and Crucifixion to happen.

What is the difference between Christians and Christian gnostics?

The Christian Gnostics in the Gospel of Thomas did not have any apocalyptic themes.

Koine

greek dialect

Kerygma

message

Gnosis

to know

Christianity is a wat of life expressed in __*____, ,*__ ; these are the foundational elements of moral theology

Creed, Cult, Code

What are the two images or major themes of the nature of Sin in the Bible?

1. Broken Relationships
2. Missing the Mark

Akeda

binding

Magisterium

teaching authority

Shoah

holocaust

Sensus Fiedlium

sense of the faithful/people reflecting and experience

What are the main causes according to aristotle?

1. material= what
2. formal=how
3. efficient=who
4. teleological= why

What are the problem areas that led Galileo to his trial?

1. He called the Pope “simpliicio”
2. He challenged controversial beliefs.

What are Haught’s three descriptions of how faith and science are related?

1. Conflict
2. Contrast
3. Convergence
4. Challenges between evolution and creation of universe
5. Faith vs. Science

Why is the big band important theologically?

1. human creativity
2. combines science and religion

Hijra

Beginning of the Muslim calendar

Also refers to the Prophet’s move from Mecca to Medina the

We made a visit to the SLU Biology Department website.  What was the point?

There is no conflict between the theory of biological evolution and religious faith in God

What point was Miller making in discussing Richard Dawkins?

* Speaks about relationship between science and faith
* “God created universe but knowing how he created is getting closer to god”

 

scientism

seeing science as the absolute and only way to the Truth.

Why is scientism not the same as science?

Science cannot study God or ultimate meaning or morality, which should be \n left to the area of faith.

A scientist does not need to believe in God. \n But faith in God is ___ __and__ ____ of science

consistent and supportive

Hinduism is the world’s oldest religion w/ no known founders.

True

Anciept Scripture of Hinduism

Vedas (Upansishads, Bhagavad Gita)

karma

law of cause and effect

Reincarnation

rebirth after death

Moksha

Release from samsara

Samsara

cycle of rebirth

Puja

prayers led by a priest or a guru

Who is the founder of Islam that recieved visions and revelations from God?

The Prophet Muhammad

Hijab

scraf wornby Muslim women

Zoroaster

Prophet of God in zoroastrianism

Sacred text of Zoroastrianism

Avesta

Filioque

“and the Son”

Founder of Scientology

L. Ron Hubbard (authored Dianetics)

Thetan

human is an immortal and spiritual being

Siddhartha Gautama

Founder of Buddhism (also known as Buddha)

Dukka

Life is suffering

Samudaya

Suffering is caused by desire

Nirodha

To end suffering, end desire

Magga

End suffering by the 6-fold path

Reincarnation

cycle of lives

Nirvana

a release from the cycle

Dalai Lama

Tibetan Buddhist Leader