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What is the latin phrase meaning for "the greater glory of God"?

Ad maiorem Dei Gloriam

What is the founding and guiding document for the Society of Jesus, written by St. Ignatius of Loyola an adopted in 1533?

Constitutions of the Society of Jesus

What is the english translation of the of the latin phrase cura personalis

Care of the person

What is the ignatian process of making decisions in a context of faith, seeking to choose what is better rather than what is less good?

Discernment

What is the name of the town in northern Spain where St. Ignatius had powerful spiritual experience?

Manresa

What are the organized series of activities, reflections, meditations, and other methods of prayer composed by St. Ignatius?

Spiritual Exercises

What is the ignatian method of prayer taught by st. ignatius in the spiritual exercises?

examen

What is the foundational, graced insight received by ignatius after his mystical experience at manresa?

Finding God in all things

What are the first three letters of Jesus' name in greek?

IHS

A ___ is a member of the society of Jesus. The term “___” was initially used as a prejorative term in the order’s early years, but was soon adopted as a positive one by members and friends of the Society.

Jesuit

What is the Latin term for “more,” used by St. Ignatius and Jesuits throughout the centuries to indicate a spirit of generous service that is not quantitative and never competitive, but is qualitative, especially in terms of love that leads to service?

magis

What is the shortened translation of contemplativus simul in actione?

Contemplative in action

_____ is the principle that affirms that every human person possesses diginity and worth and should be afforded respect and just treatment

Dignity of the human person

A process described by St Ignatius in the spiritual exercises that involve reflection and evaluation of desires, impulses, and other feelings when considering courses of action

Discernment of spirits

T/F: Service of faith and promotion of justice is the hallmark of the Jesuit's ministry

True

____ is God's act of making otherwise enstranged human beings part of God's spiritual family by including them as inheritors of the riches of divine glory

Adoption

What is the theological term for the redeeming, reconciling, and liberating work of God in Christ?

Atonement

___ is an atonment theory that interprets Jesus's death on the cross as Christ's victory over the powers of sin, death, and the devil?

Christus Victor

T/F: The christian theological tradition teaches that salvation can be achieved through human effort or power apart from divine grace

False

What is the latin phrase for being in a sinful state, meaning "curved in upon oneself" instead of bending toward God as the object of trust?

Incurvatus se

T/F: Some contemporary theologians understand sin as a tragic condition of the creative process rather than the guilt resulting from original sin

True

T/F: Liberation theology stresses heightened awareness of the "sinful" socioeconomic structures that cause social iniquities and active participation in changing those structures

True

What doctrine concerns God's gracious judicial verdict in advance of the day of judgement, pronouncing guilty sinners, who turn in self-despairing trust to Jesus Christ, forgiven, acquitted of all charges, and declared morally upright in God's sight

Justification

____ is the process by which humans are saved from the guilt and power of sin and saved for freedom and life lived in the kingdom of God

Salvation

Why does theology need the language of sin?

To understand the depths of the problem which grace by redemption is the only adequate answer

Christ transformed human nature

Incarnation

Christ defeated sin

Crucifixion

Christ broke down the barriers between humanity and God

Reconciliation

Christ defeated the power of death

Resurrection

From the Gk. soteria, ____ is the section of theology that deals with the doctrine of salvation.

Soteriology

Apart from the ___ of Jesus Christ, the cross means nothing but one more human tragedy

Resurrection

T/F: The holy spirit is seen as effective throughout all creation from beginning to end, in the creation and maintenance of the church, and through gifts to individuals

True

What are utterances approximating word and speech, usually produced during states of intense religious experience?

Glossolalia

Orthopathy

Right passions or feelings

Orthodoxy

Right beliefs

Orthopraxy

Right practice

What is the Greek word that means "gift of grace"

Charismata

What is the term that is used to refer to the part of the human being that has a relationship with God

Spirit

What is the umbrella term for Christian religious movements that experience the baptism or gifts of the Holy Spirit primarily though charismatic gifts, including speaking in tongue?

Pentecostalism

____ is the study of the person and work of the holy spirit

Pneumatology

What is the supernatural work of the holy spirit that grants spiritual life to a person who is spiritually dead in sin?

Regeneration

___ is the process by which the believer is made holy, either by an instantaneous work of God or through the process of growth in which the love of God and neighbor comes to dominate the Christian’s intentions and actions.

Sanctification

The Holy Spirit....

Is a person; Speaks, intercedes, grieves, and more; A person distinct from the father and the son

What is the Hebrew word that means "breath", "wind", and "spirit". In the Bible, it is often used to refer to the Holy Spirit?

Ruach

T/F: The Spirit applies to the church what christ accomplished for the church

True

Aspects of the holy spirit like the wind

God in action; God parting the red sea; God can bring the dead back to life

T/F: Christian theology argues that the divine essence is the dynamic relations of the three persons in and through one another

True

The father, son, and holy spirit make room for each other and move in and through one another in such a way that creates a mutual indwelling while still maintaining space for each individually

Perichoresis

Jurgen moltmann's concept that sees God as a group bound together by mutual love, accord, and self-giving of its members

Social trinity

Denies the unity of God by asserting that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate, independent divine beings, rather than one God existing in three distinct persons

Tritheism

What term did st irenaeus use to describe how the one God has ordered that salvation of humanity in history

The economy of salvation

Jesus commissioned his disciples to baptize the nations in the ___ of the father, son, and holy spirit

Name

Greek term that refers to a pledge, guarantee or earnest money, signifying a deposit or down payment securing a future transaction or promise, often used in a spiritual sense to describe the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of the believer’s inheritance?

Arrabon

From the Greek doxa (meaning “glory”) and logos (meaning “word” or “speaking”), a _____ is a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy that glorifies God, often sung or chanted in unison. It’s a general term fro expression of praise.

Doxalogy

Religious parts of the doctrine of trinity

Jewish monotheism; pagan polytheism; greek metaphysics

Four resources for theologians solving problems

Reason; Scripture; Experience; Tradition

What term means “to remember,” not only in the sense of recalling the past as a fact from the past but in participating in the recalled event so as to share its meaning and power in the present.

Anamnesis

What term literally means “service,” and so it is the work of Christians as their service to God through worship? In common use, the term refers to the rituals of worship, and most especially to the pattern or order of the worship service of a congregation or denomination.

Liturgy

What is the atonement theory that interprets Jesus’ death on the cross as restoring the offended honor of God by paying the penalty for the offense and thereby fulfilling divine justice and restoring the offender to God?

Satisfaction

St. Paul wrote in the Ephesians 2:13, “But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the ____ of Christ.”

Blood

What is the founding myth of the Israelites that describes the history of Egyptian bondage of the Israelites?

Exodus

What are the three aspects of Pentecost?

Day of birth of the church in the New Testament; 50 days after Jesus resurrection; day the Holy Spirit descended

T/F: Genesis 1:1-2 states: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Son of God was hovering over the waters.”

False

____ is a term for the sacrament of bread and wine that emphasizes thanksgiving. Also known as the Mass, Holy Communion, the Lord’s Supper, the Remembrance, and the Bread.

Eucharist

The sacrament known as ___ was once referred to as Extreme Unction and ministered only to those in danger of death. It is a prayer of healing for anyone in danger of death from sickness or old age, not just the dying, and may be celebrated individually and communally.

Anointing of the Sick

T/F: Transubtantiation is the Catholic doctrine that in the Eucharist, through a miracle, the bread and the wine become the body and blood of Christ through the “properties” or “accidents” appear to our sense to be bread and wine.

True

A _____ is an outward sign, channel, or means (water, bread, wine, Trinitarian formula) of an invisible grace through which God conveys God’s presence and power to the recipient. Protestants believe there are two, while Roman Catholics believe there are seven.

Sacraments

T/F: Works righteousness is the idea that salvation is by grace through faith alone?

False

The sacrament of _____ is a covenant which expresses a relationship between a man and a woman — a permanent union of persons capable of knowing and loving each other and God. The celebration of this sacrament is also a liturgical act, appropriately held in a public liturgy at church. It is a means of sanctifying the laity.

James 5:14-15 states, “If anyone is sick let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, ____ him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

Annoint

T/F: In the last centuries of the Old Testament era, the Greek word “baptizo” meant “to immerse.” By the time the New Testament was written, that word described the application of water that included immersing, washing, and pouring.

True

What are the only two sacraments practiced by Catholics & Protestants?

Baptism, Mass, & Communion

What concept means “the simultaneous presence of both bread and the body of Christ at one and the same time without change in the substance. The substance of the bread and body of Christ are present together?”

Consubstantiation

What does ex opere operato?

“by the very performance of the action.”

T/F: Eschatology is. the area of Christian theology known as “the last things”

True

What was the twenty-first century (1962-1965) council of the Roman Catholic Church, summoned by Pope John XXIII, which enacted many reforms and recast many doctrines — such as revelation, biblical interpretation, salvation, and ecclesiology — in a new light?

Vatican Council II

The word catholic comes from the Gk. kath’holou. What does it mean?

“Referring to the whole”

Acts 1:8 documents the last recorded words of Jesus to his disciples. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my ___ in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Witness

What is the apostolic witness and why is it important to ecclesiology?

Important because theological doctrines of the church are grounded in the apostolic witnesses

What was the response to the preaching of the gospel in Roman citites?

Mass conversion; Riots; Indifference

Which of the following is considered a mark of the church?

Holy; Catholic; Apostolic

The Protestant ___ was the sixteenth-century movement of theological, liturgical, and moral reforms of the medieval church in Europe led by Hus, Zwingli, Luther, Calvin, and others, which resulted in the formation of various Protestant churches, originally in Europe, subsequently in North America, and now throughout the world.

Reformation

The papacy refers to the government of the ____.

Pope

The church is…

Both local and universal; local visible gatherings of believers; and the total body of Christian believers worldwide

What is the study of the theological doctrine relating to the church?

Ecclesiology

T/F: The First Amendment of the US Constitution states “Congress shall make now law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

True

The church’s unity is grounded in the ____.

Saving work of Christ

What are the three main branches of Christianity?

Orthodox; Protestant; Catholic

What does ora et labora mean?

Pray & work

What is church polity?

The system of church governance or the way a church is organized and led