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Doctrine Test 1
Christian Doctrine
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 4
09/24/2012

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What is the apostolic paradigm?
Definition
- We have life from God the Father
- We have death in the Son
-We have resurrection by the Spirit
Term
What are 2 themes of the apostolic paradigm?
Definition
-"Life, Death, Resurrection" -- Story of Jesus
- "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"
Term
Doctrine of Jesus
Definition
Christology
Term
Doctrine of Scripture
Definition
Bibliology
Term
The creeds of the church create?
Definition
Dogmatic Theology
Term
The story of Israel is?
Definition
Theological History
Term
Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Definition
Pneutamology
Term
Doctrine of the End Times
Definition
Eschatology
Term
Doctrine of Sin
Definition
Harmartiology
Term
Doctrine of Salvation
Definition
Soteriology
Term
Doctrines of Election and Mission
Definition
Missiology
Term
3 Doctrines of Salvation
Definition
- Justification
- Sanctification
- Sarametology
Term
Doctrine of the Church
Definition
Ecclesiology
Term
Christianity from Consistent Sources of Christian Tradition
Definition
Vital Christianity
Term
Type of Christianity that draws from Constantiniasm (Civil Religion) and Folk Religion ( the kind of beliefs that carry on from generation to generation) and superstitions
Definition
Cultural Christianity
Term
Christianity based on utility and pragmatism
Definition
Therapeutic Moralistic Deism
Term
Draws from competing priorities and stimuli
Definition
Indifference
Term
Draws from immigration and globalization and American Ingenuity
Definition
Diversity
Term
Draws from the enlightenment especially 19th and 20th century "Master's of Suspicion"
Definition
Secularism
Term
Said that belief in God destroys human freedom
Definition
Freud/Nietzsche
Term
Says that in order to cope and maintain stability we construct a "new parent" beyond our sense who can't be destroyed.
Definition
Freud
Term
Says we did this (created religion) to hand over our wills to something else and now all we have left is will.
Definition
Neitzsche
Term
Says that God is a coping mechanism that keeps us from driving our own vehicles.
Definition
Freud/Neitzsche
Term
Says that belief in God sanctions exploitation the weak; Feudalism and capitalism are systems that allow for rules to have power over their followers.
Definition
Marx et al.
Term
Says that belief in God constructs a super-personal, or impersonal projection w/ vestigial survival value. Says that God began by us projecting God out of nothing but abstractions; quarks of human intelligence.
Definition
Feurbach
Term
Says that belief in God reinforces mere private, personal 'taste' or group identity.
Definition
Durkheim
Term
We no God most profoundly in the place where we see him least there.... ________ ____________
Definition
The crucifixion
Term
Mystery
Definition
God is not naturally accessible to us; thus epistemic humility
Term
Revelation
Definition
Knowledge of God is a gift from God; thus "special Revelation"
Term
Knowledge of God is to be mediated, thus evangelism and reception
Definition
Tradition
Term
Holiness
Definition
God is other; thus via negative-- "the way of negation"
Term
God is known through what God does; thus via positiva
Definition
Activity
Term
The Name (YWH)
Definition
God is personal; thus I thou knowledge
Term
What God does is deliver, justify, reconcile, include, heal, refine, mature, thus wisdom
Definition
Goodness
Term
Life
Definition
God is the living life giver.
Term
Unity
Definition
God is one
Term
Heresies always compromise what three truths?
Definition
That Jesus is:
- Fully Human
-Fully Divine
- One Person
Term
What distinguishes us humans from other creatures?
Definition
Imagio Dei
Term
What three major areas offer evidence as to how we are different than other creatures?
Definition
Personal Faculties
Social Faculties
Official Faculties
Term
What are the 4 personal faculties that make us different than animals?
Definition
- We have souls
- Our human appearance
- Powers of reasoning or speaking
- Our ability to contemplate God and Self
Term
What is the one social faculty that makes us different?
Definition
- Gendered families (tribes, tongues, and nations) rather than alternative animal social structures.
Term
What official faculties make us different than animals?
Definition
- Our vocation: cultivation of creation as God's earthly representatives
- Israel's covenant fellowship w/ God, cosmic authority, and holy likeness
Term
What are surface indicators of Jesus' divinity?
Definition
"one-line" proof text
Term
What are deeper indicators of Jesus' divinity?
Definition
Narrative roles and acts of Jesus
Term
What is an example of a surface indicator of Jesus' Divinity?
Definition
John 1:1, in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God
Term
What are the deepest indicators of Jesus' divinity?
Definition
Pervasive worship practices (liturgies) reflecting the church's relationship w/ Jesus
Term
What are some examples of deeper indicators of jesus' divinity?
Definition
- Jesus' role in creation
- His sovereignty over creation in calming the storm, walking on water, and feeding miracles
- Forgiving and Judging in healing the paralytic and judging in the sheep and goats
- Finally, his central role in salvation
Term
What are some examples of the deepest indicators of Jesus' divinity?
Definition
- Councils of Nicea 325, Constantinople 381 in which both humanity and divinity are affirmed.
Term
Why are there so few mentions of Jesus Divinity in scripture?
Definition
This is the case b/c of the conviction that Jesus is Lord did not need to be defended b/c people knew by Jesus' action and words that God in the flesh is who he was claiming to be!
Term
Jesus is a prophet/ Islam
Definition
Ebionism
Term
Jesus is divine only based on his moral standing/ Mormonism
Definition
Adoptionism
Term
JC is competing between two natures and mary only mothered his human nature
Definition
Nestorianism
Term
Jesus' body wasn't real
Definition
Docetism
Term
2 natures before one after
Definition
Monophysitism
Term
In Jesus human body he had a divine mind and soul
Definition
Apolliniarianism
Term
Jesus mediates between man and God
Definition
Arianism
Term
Spirit proceeds from the Father
Definition
Eastern Orthodoxy
Term
God as 1 source w/ 3 roles (Water, Ice, and Steam)
Definition
Modalistic/ Monarchianism
Term
Spirit proceeds from the Father and Son
Definition
Latin Orthodoxy
Term
Jesus inherits divinity like Maximus
Definition
Dynamic Monarchianism and Arianism
Term
God's unity would merely be the moral unity of 3 individuals (Illustration: Egg)
Definition
Trithiesm
Term
Universe has many causes and powers
Definition
Polytheism and Dualism
Term
All is God (or there is none); the universe is absolute and self realizing
Definition
Pantheism and Atheism
Term
God forms a pre-existing universe (and must respect its limit)
Definition
Platonism and Process Theology
Term
As "first cause", God only causes inferior, mediating creators; the world is essentially evil
Definition
Gnosticism
Term
Specificities are arbitrary, owing entirely to governing scientific or moral rules and principles
Definition
Renaissance/ Ciceronian natural law
Term
Beings are manipulated and unfree (rather than God being w/ them)
Definition
Fatalism
Term
Like a watchmaker, God maintains no continuing active relationship w/ his creation
Definition
Deism
Term
Via Negativa
Definition
God is other; Holiness
Term
Via Positiva
Definition
God is known through what he does!
Term
Creatio ex nihilo
Definition
God caused the universe from nothing
Term
Creatio Segunda or Creatio Mediata
Definition
creating the universe in specifi ways
Term
Creatio Prima or Creatio Immediata
Definition
formless and void
Term
Creatio Continuata
Definition
creation of a "helper" or man/ providence or continued creation
Term
Creatio Nova
Definition
new Creation
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