Theology Quiz 2

Front 1

What does Genesis 1:27 say about how human beings were made?

Back 1

God created man in his own image

Front 2

Who convened the Council of Nicea in 325?

Back 2

Constantine

Front 3

Acc. to Arius, what is a major distinction btn God the Father and the Son?

Back 3

the Father existed before the Son and is 'unbegotten'

Front 4

Which Gospel did opponents of Arius cite to argue that the Son is equal to the Father

Back 4

John

Front 5

Acc. to Athanasius, what couldn't Christ do (and be) that Christian worship assumed he could, if the Son was only a creature?

Back 5

He couldn't save other creatures

Front 6

What Christian practice seemed to support Athanasius' claim about hrist's diinity?

Back 6

No idolatry--if Christ is a creature and we are praying to him, we are praying to an idol

Front 7

What three names to titles mention in Matthew 28:19 were eventually declared 'persons' of the Trinitarian God sharing on essence?

Back 7

the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

Front 8

Antiohcenes' Christological concersn were of what kind?

Back 8

moral

Front 9

What title for JEsus' mother Mary alarmed the theologian Nestorius?

Back 9

theotokos

Front 10

*Christ is the one nature of the incarnate divine Logos*

Back 10

Alexandrian

Front 11

*Chrsit has two complete natures (human and divine)*

Back 11

Antiochene

Front 12

*The humanity and divinity in Christ are distinct (NOT mixed or confused)*

Back 12

Antiochene

Front 13

*The mind/soul of Christ is NOT human but only the divine Logos (Logos did not assume a complete human nature)*

Back 13

Alexandrian

Front 14

*The relationship btn Christ's humanity and divinity is analogous to the relationship btn two persons in a marriage*

Back 14

Antiochene

Front 15

*The title Theiotokos must NOT be applied to Mary*

Back 15

Antiochene

Front 16

Which understanding of the role of Christ in human salvation tends to characterize traditional Christian theology--Illustrative or Constitutitve?

Back 16

Constitutive

Front 17

Which (illustrative or constitutive) characterized the thinking fo the Enlightenment?

Back 17

Illustrative

Front 18

Definition: Christ transfrs the legal status of being judged righteous to humanity

Back 18

Justification

Front 19

Definition: Christ recues humanity from death through healing or liberation

Back 19

Salvation

Front 20

Definition: Christ ransoms humanity from captivity

Back 20

Redemption

Front 21

Definition: Christ, as the Son of God, shares his inheritance rights with humans hwo were once considered slaves

Back 21

Adoption

Front 22

Acc. to Athanasius, why was Christ's scrifice superior to the sacrifices under the Old Covenent?

Back 22

It was trustworthy and permanent

Front 23

Augustine claimed in the City of God that, in his sacrifial death, Christ acted not only as the victim, but also what?

Back 23

Priest

Front 24

Acc. to Abelard, what was the prupose and cause of the incarnation?

Back 24

a demonstration of God's love with the intent of reponse of love from humanity

Front 25

Acc. to Vladimir Lossky, 'the descent (katabasis) of the divine person of Christ' h=makes humans capable of what?

Back 25

Ascent in the Holy Spirit

Front 26

Acc. to Romans 5:13-14, what 'exercied dominiion from Adam to Moses'? And what was only 'reckoned' after the law?

Back 26

death
sin

Front 27

In Romans' 5:16-19. how are JEsus' actions contrasted with those of Adam? How are the conswquences of his actions contrased with those of Adam?

Back 27

Adam with the man who led all humanity to sin and Jesus is the man who led all humanity to righteousness/justification

Front 28

What is a 'stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles?'

Back 28

Christ crucified

Front 29

Acc. to 1 Corintians 1:25, what is 'wiser than human wisdom'? What is 'stronger than human strength'?

Back 29

God's foolishness
God's weakness

Front 30

Acc. to Ianaeus, what did Christ recapitulate when he became incarante and was made human?

Back 30

Our sins (back to the time of Adam and the fall of man) and gave us salvation

Front 31

Acc. to Irenaeus, what is one reason why Christ needed to be human? What is one reason he needed to be God?
What is one reason why BOTH needed to be present in one person?

Back 31

He could not fully redeem human nature if he weren't
So humanity could become a 'partaker of incorruptibility'
To simultaneously present humanity to God and bring God to humanity

Front 32

What are the main approaches to the relationship btn experience and Chrisian theology?

Back 32

1) Experience provides foundational resource for Christian thetology
2) Christian theology provides interpretive framework within which human experience may be interpreted

Front 33

Acc. to Lindbeck, what does the experiential-expressive approach to doctrine presume about religious eperience and its relationship to theology

Back 33

Interprets documents as symbols of inner human feeling of attitudes; common universal religious experience that Christian theology tries to express in words

Front 34

What does Lindbeck claim is the main objection to the experiential-expressive approach?

Back 34

Can't be proven/verified

Front 35

Acc. to Luther, when did Jesus' followers experience the absence of God?

Back 35

Good Friday

Front 36

What did Luther conclude from this (Christians experiencing absence of God on Good Friday) about the relationship btn experience and theology?

Back 36

They don't agree--theology stresses faithfulness over experience; experience is not reliable as a guide to the presence of God

Front 37

Acc. to Augustine's Confessions, what tears him away from God?

Back 37

His 'weight'--sexual habit

Front 38

What gives Wuguestine the strength to enjoy God

Back 38

"the man Jesus Christ"

Front 39

Augustine says that the things of the earth confess something about God which he then puts into words, but obviously Augustine does not mean that the world actually talks. Instead, what is the world's response to his questions?

Back 39

It's beauty

Front 40

What does the apophatic approach to language about God stress?

Back 40

We can't use human nature to refer to God b/c he's beyond it

Front 41

In which Christian tradition does the apophatic theology thend to be found? (eastern or western)

Back 41

Eastern

Front 42

What does the cataphatic approach to theology presume about language about God?

Back 42

Positive statements may be made about God

Front 43

Why do most chrisitnas assume that it its appropriate to use aspects of the created world as analogies for God?

Back 43

there is a coninuity btn God and creation so comparing them doesn't reduce God

Front 44

What are three characteristics of metaphors?

Back 44

1) Imply both similarity and dissimilarity btn 2 things
2) Open-ended (cannot be reduce to diffinitive statements)
3) Strongly emotional overtones

Front 45

Pseudo-Dionysius delcares that god is gather up by no discourse, by no intuition, by no name and yet he idetifies God with certain attributes or names. What are three names or attributes that Pseudo-Dionysius consider acceptable to identify God?

Back 45

Source of all Unity
One
Good

Front 46

Acc. to Pseudo-Dionysius,' description fo the ascent to unity with God, into what does on plunge? What happens to language and speech?

Back 46

darkness beyond intellect
they disappear

Front 47

Acc. to Eckhart, God begins where waht stops? What is "as great as God is great" if it stands btn the human and God?

Back 47

the creatures
"the smallest creature image that ever forms in you"

Front 48

Exkhart prays to God to make him free of what?

Back 48

God

Front 49

What text and author first used the term ;mystial' in the sense of spiritual?

Back 49

Dionysius the Areopagite

Front 50

What did allegorical interpretation of scripture mean to Philo of Alexandria?

Back 50

Look beneath surface meaning of scrioture to discern a 'deeper meaning'

Front 51

How did the Antiochene school interpret Scripture?

Back 51

Must be interpreted in light of historial context

Front 52

Which school read more Old Testament prephecies as relating to Christ?

Back 52

Alexandrians

Front 53

What is Augustine's two-fold approach to interpretation

Back 53

1) literal--flesh/historical sense
2) allegorical--mystical/spiritual sense

Front 54

What is a typology?

Back 54

Historical events as seen as an anticipation f some aspect of the coming of Christ

Front 55

Acc. to Augustine, symbols require what in order to determine their true referent in humanity's fallen state?

Back 55

divine illumination

Front 56

What does the term persona mean literally

Back 56

mask

Front 57

The fact that the Ot does not attribute sexual function to God is connected to its rejection of what?

Back 57

Paganism

Front 58

What Pauline image is modeled on human relationships?

Back 58

Reconciliation

Front 59

Acc. to the Catechism, what does the analogy with motherhood emphasize about God?

Back 59

God's immanence--Intimacy btn creator and created

Front 60

What are two problems with the idea of the Christian God as a personal God?

Back 60

1) It might imply God is a human being
2) It implies God is 'a person' whereas the Trinity talks of God as 3 persons so a personal God refutes the Trinity

Front 61

Acc. to SPinoza, the idea of God as loving is inconsistent with what?

Back 61

the idea of a perfect God

Front 62

Martin Buber defnes an I-You relatioship as a relationship btn two what

Back 62

active subjects/persons

Front 63

What kin of knowledge is offered by the I-You replaitonship?

Back 63

direct, immediate knowledge that lacks specific content

Front 64

Bernard suggest that the love of the heart is what?

Back 64

carnal

Front 65

Acc. to Bernard, what aspect of Whrist attracts human hearts?

Back 65

the humanity of Christ

Front 66

Acc. to Bernard, what should the soul at prayer have before it?

Back 66

the image of Christ

Front 67

Acc to Bernard, what the mouth that kisses represnet? What does the kiss represent? What does the bride represent?

Back 67

mouth=divinity of Christ
kiss=incarnate Christ
bride=humanity/individual soul

Front 68

What are the 3 gifts Julian asks for? (she calls them all wounds)

Back 68

1) understand God's passion
2) experience bodily sickness in her youth
3) to feel tru contrition, kind compassion, and a willful longing to God

Front 69

Julian's vision of Christ's suffering egins when she is presented by her preist with what?

Back 69

the cross

Front 70

What are two ways in which Julian thinks taht JEsus is analogous to a mother?

Back 70

1) spiritual birth of the world (salvation)
2) feeding (eucharist)