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| What makes Theology unique amongst the sciences? |
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| Are Christian beliefs (doctrines) based on objective facts or subjective feelings? |
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| What is Biblical exegesis? |
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| Drawing out of scripture what it meant and means (Exegesis seeks to determine what the author was saying to his audience) |
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| What are some tools of Exegesis? |
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| Translations, concordances, commentaries; critical texts, grammars, lexicons |
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| T/F We can only know God if He first reveals himself to us? |
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| What is biblical Theology? |
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| The science and study of God through the Bible |
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| What are some methods of Exegesis? |
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| Use of word studies, Attention to context (both immediate and larger); knowing as much as possible about the original audience (the study of biblical backgrounds) |
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| How does systematic theology differ from biblical exegesis and biblical theology? |
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| Systematic theology makes the Biblical message Contemporary |
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| Why is historical theology important? |
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| It helps us to avoid rehashing settled results of the past. Avoid committing heresies of the past. learn how to do theology by seeing how others have done it. |
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| Which branch of theology seeks to make the biblical message contemporary? |
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| How does Tillich's method of correlation seek to express doctrine in a contemporary fashion? |
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| Through a systematic form of theology |
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| The handling of texts the science of interpreting texts |
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| Which branch of theology (biblical, historical, or systematic) seeks to distinguish between the "timeless essence" of gospel and it's context-specific form? |
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| In what ways must Christianity's message be contextualized (i.e. the three dimensions)? |
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| Length, Height, and Breadth |
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| What is meant by the "stratification of topics" in theology? |
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| They are more clearly taught in scripture and the truth of Christianity stands or falls with them (The weightier the point is, the more we should insist on it/ the less weighty it is, the less we should make a condition of fellowship |
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| What is the difference between exegesis and interpretation? |
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| Exegesis seeks out what the original author was saying whereas interpretation tries to fast forward the message and apply it to today's audience |
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| What is general revelation? |
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| General revelation is universally available it is "God's communication of Himself to all persons in all places |
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| What are the modes of general revelation? |
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| Nature, history, and mans inner being |
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| What is special revelation? |
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| God's particular revelation to particular people at particular times |
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| What is natural theology? |
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| God's power and deity is evident not only by casual but by scientific observation |
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| What are the assumptions of natural theology? |
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| The world is basically as it ws when it came from God's hand / Neither the limitations of humanity nor the effects of sin hinder the recognition of God in his handiwork |
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| T/F A true natural theology can be formed from general revelation? |
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| Which kind of revelation is remedial (i.e. countering the effects of sin)? |
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| What is the cosmological argument? |
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| Chain of cause and effect, leading back to a first cause |
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| What is the teleological argument? |
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| The built in purposiveness of things points to a designer |
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| What is the moral argument? |
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| A law of an kind demands a law giver |
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| What is the study of doctrine known as? |
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| What is the ontological argument? |
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| God is the greatest of all conceivable beings. Now a being which does not exist cannot be the greatest of all conceivable beings. Therefore, bby definition God must exist. |
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| T/F With Special revelation inaudible speech is possible? |
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| What is special revelation? |
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| God's manifestation of himself to particular persons at definite times and places, allowing them to enter a redemptive relationship with Him. |
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| Special Revelation is both remedial and relational? |
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| What are the three styles of special revelation? |
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| Personal, anthropic, and analogical |
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| What are two things that prove that special revelation is anthropic? |
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| God used a (common) human language (koine Greek) and God used the form of a human being for the incarnation |
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| In order for the analogical style of special revelation to work it must have? |
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| (T/F)In the analogical nature of special revelation the difference in meaning is primarily degree more that kind |
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| Can we construct an analogy based upon general revelation on its own? |
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| No (only God can construct the analogies and has done so through special revelation) |
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| What are the three modes of special revelation? |
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| Historical events, divine speech, and the Incarnation |
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