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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Why were the creeds created?

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Need for public statements of faith which could be used in teaching, and in defense of the Christian faith against misrepresentations
The need for personal “confessions of faith” at the time of baptism.

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Orthodoxy

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Correct beliefs

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Heresy

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Wrong beliefs

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Creeds

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Public, authoritative statements of the basic points of the Christian faith

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Theology

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The study of God

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Christian Theology

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The study of the Christian God

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Christian Doctrine

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Particular beliefs that are established by the Church as normative

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In what ways does God reveal himself

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  • Creation
  • Human experience
  • The Bible
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What do the scriptures principally teach?

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What we are to believe concerning God

What response God requires of us

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Canon

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“Rule of faith,” 39 books of the OT and 27 books of the NT that the Church affirms as having authority

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Apocrypha

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Books written in the period between the OT and NT which are excluded from the Jewish and Protestant canons

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Inspiration of Scripture

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  • Holy Spirit “interacted” with human writers to write the Bible
  • Holy Spirit “interacted” with the Church to discern the Bible
  • Holy Spirit “interacts” with humans to read and interpret the Bible
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Plenary Inspiration

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Full and complete

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Translations of the Bible

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Septuagint(Greek), Latin Vulgate, Wycliff, KJV, NASV, NIV

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Criteria for Selecting Scripture

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  • Apostolic origins or connections
  • Generally accepted within Christian communities throughout the world
  • Doctrinally sound and consistent
  • Letters that had wide public reading during early worship gatherings
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Literary Genres

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Law, history, poetry & wisdom, prophetic, apocalyptic, gospels, letters

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The Law

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

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History

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Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

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Guidelines for reading OT narratives

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  • They usually don’t teach a doctrine
  • Usually illustrate a doctrine taught elsewhere
  • Record what happened; not what SHOULD have happened of what OUGHT to happen every time
  • What people do in narratives isn’t necessarily a good example for us to follow
  • Most characters from OT narratives are far from perfect
  • Not told if what happened was good or bad
  • All narratives are selective and incomplete
  • Not written to answer our theological questions
  • They may teach explicitly or implicitly
  • God is the hero of all biblical narratives
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Poetry and Wisdom

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Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs

21
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Major Prophets

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Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekial, Daniel

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Gospels

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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

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Letters

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Romans, Galatians, Philippians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Titus, Hebrews, 1 & 2 Peter, Jude, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Ephesians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Philemon, James, 1 & 2 & 3 John

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Apocalyptic

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Revelation

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Story of Scripture

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Continuous and Christocentric

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How is God fully revealed?

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In Jesus

27
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Sources of authority diagram

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\/ \/ Holy Spirit

Revelation<–>Christ<–>Scripture–>Reason, tradition, experience

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Hermeneutics

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Interpreting scripture with the help of the Holy Spirit

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Principles of Interpretation

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  1. Know your type of translation
  2. Read in context
  3. Understand particular in light of whole
  4. Understand obscure in light of clear
  5. Work in community
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Normative

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Universal teachings for everyone

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Descriptive

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Tells us what is happening in the passage

32
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Corrective

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Deals with the issue at hand, probably not transferable

33
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Credo

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I believe

34
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Adiophora

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things indifferent

35
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Credo ut intelligam

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I believe in order that I might understand

36
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Anselm

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Faith precedes understanding

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Fides quarens intellectum

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Faith seeking understanding- reason helps us understand our faith

38
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Origins of The Apostles’ Creed

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Traced to Biblical texts, Interrogatory Creed of Hippolytus, Caesarius of Arles

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Vulgate

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Latin

40
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Septuagint

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Greek OT

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Wycliffe Translation

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1st English Bible

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