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RELS 160 Final (ALLERT, TWU)
What is the "Spectrum of Reflection"? - Answer-5 different levels of theology (Folk, Lay, Ministerial, Professional and Academic) How does the "Spectrum of Reflection" relate to Christian theology as an interdependent enterprise? - Answer-Interdependent theology has no hierarchy of the spectrum of reflection What foundational categories is Christian Theology usually divided up into? - Answer-Exegetical, Historical, Systematic, Practical What's the popular understanding of the term sola scriptura? - Answer-Scripture is up for interpretation, all you need is the Holy Spirit What's the historical understanding of the term sola scriptura? - Answer-Scripture, tradition and proclamation were believed to coincide Why is the popular understanding of sola scriptura problematic? - Answer-Anyone can interpret the Bible however they want (1. Formative "prophetic" figures
- Doctrinal statements/ statements of faith
- Doctrinal pluralism in Christianity) What 4 ways has theology functioned within Christianity? - Answer-Theology as an explanation of Reality Theology as Systematization of Christian Doctrine
Theology as the Defense of Faith Theology as Contemplation and Mystery How do both Rudolf Bultmann and Charles Hodge represent two extremes of contextualization? - Answer-Biblical determinism- free of cultures influence (Charles Hodge) Cultural determinism- biblical message determined by culture (Rudolf Bultmann) What is the Wesleyan Quadrilateral? - Answer-Scripture, Tradition, Experience, Reason What is the Wesleyan Quadrilaterals relationship to theology? - Answer-Pillars on which theology stands. The relation of experience and reason. What's the biblical understanding of Tradition? - Answer-Receiving and Delivering paradidomi (handing over) and paradidom (that which was handed over) What's the historical understanding of Tradition? - Answer-Scripture, Tradition and Proclamation were believed to coincide (Canonists, Basil) What's the theological understanding of Tradition? - Answer-It is biblical must be public and open What's an example of a biblical understanding of Tradition? - Answer-2 Thessalonians 2:15 (So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.) What are examples of Tradition - Answer-The Rule of Faith (Standard) The NT Canon
What is special revelation? - Answer-Revelation that is specific (revelation through Scripture) What is Karl Barth's 3-fold Word of God? - Answer-The Word Proclaimed, The Word Written, The Word Incarnate (Revealed) How is the purpose/use of a map analogous to theology? - Answer-We can't expect a map to be an exact replica of the world, it is just to show how various things are related to one another What does it mean to say that theology is faith seeking understanding? - Answer-Faith and reason are important, but faith should not be dependent on understanding. Uses rational argument to deepen what is already known. How does C.S. Lewis' description of the "Great Hall" in Mere Christianity relate to theology? - Answer- Hall = Christian Consensus You must obey the rules that apply to the whole house Brings people to the hall to wait in, but not to live in Why can one not avoid culture when doing theology? - Answer-Culture affects everything and everyone is bias What is apophatic theology? - Answer-Affirms God's absolute transcendence. No affirmative concepts or statements can be applied to Him Who practiced apophatic theology? - Answer-Pseudo-Dionysius Against whom was apophatic theology directed? - Answer-Directed at the Kataphaticists (the believed the opposite)
How does univocal and equivocal language relate to theology? - Answer-Neither should be used in Theology. We should use analogical language to talk about God Why is Analogy of Being necessary? - Answer-A way to speak about the sacramental relationship between creator and creation (Doctrine) Who practiced Analogy of Being? - Answer-Aquinas Against whom was Analogy of Being directed? - Answer-Scotus How is mystery understood in Christian theology? - Answer-Something that is revealed, but not necessarily solved Why does speaking about God run the risk of idolatry? - Answer-Someone can treat their theology as God rather than God Himself According to Roger Olson, what is orthodoxy? - Answer-Mere Christianity. A core of central beliefs that results in distortion of Christian beliefs. According to Roger Olson, what is heresy? - Answer-Heresy is the counterpart to orthodoxy. A heresy is a belief (usually when it is taught) that contradicts orthodoxy significantly. What are Olson's 3 categories of Christian beliefs? - Answer-Dogmas, Doctrines and Opinions What are dogmas? - Answer-orthodoxy, Christian Consensus, mere Christianity What are doctrines? - Answer-Category of beliefs important to particular traditions, but not necessarily to Christianity as a whole
Define activist (Bebbington Quad) - Answer-Communicates the message to others to inspire change What understandings of evangelicalism have the most influence at TWU? (Module 2) - Answer- Evangelism (According to Stiver) Who started the modern age? - Answer-Descartes How does Stiver define epistemology? - Answer-study of knowledge regarding what makes a belief rather than an opinion (According to Stiver) How did Evangelicalism respond to modernity? - Answer-Critiqued it because Modernity claimed science and philosophy were more reasonable (According to Zimmerman) What is hermeneutics? - Answer-Interpretation of the Bible What does Zimmerman mean when he says that all humans are "interpretive animals?" - Answer-We are made to interpret things to a higher standard (According to Twiss) What is "syncretism" in its theological sense? - Answer-The mixing of different religions How does Jinkins define "materialism"? - Answer-the value of something on the basis of whether or not it can be seen, touched, felt and, most important, measured (According to Gregory of Nyssa) What is "true knowledge"? - Answer-Leaving behind the material world What is the difference between knowledge and comprehension for Aquinas? - Answer-Knowledge is fact, comprehension is true understanding
Define univocal language: - Answer-Words that express the same meanings Define equivocal language: - Answer-Words that have more than one possible meanings Define analogical language: - Answer-Words that have different meanings, but are related. Context- dependant What is "perspicuity of scripture"? - Answer-Those things necessary for salvation are clear. Define Tradition 1: - Answer-"Single source" theory of doctrine. Based on Scripture and "tradition" refers to an authoritative way of interpreting Scripture Define Tradition 2: - Answer-"Dual source" theory of doctrine. Based on 2 quite distinct sources: scripture and unwritten tradition Define Tradition 1a: - Answer-view of reformers Define Tradition 0 (solo scriptura): - Answer-understanding of theology that allocates no role whatsoever to Tradition (Solo Scriptura, the Radicals) Define material sufficiency of scripture: - Answer-Scripture is enough to understand theology Define material insufficiency of scripture: - Answer-Scripture is not enough to understand theology Define Norma normans: - Answer-Scripture is ultimate theology
