Midterm Practice Flashcards
(36 cards)
What percentage of Americans are Christian?
77%
How many Christians are Protestant?
50%
Explain the Protestant percentage breakdown:
Evangelical: 25%
Black Churches: 7%
Mainline: 18%
What percentage of Americans are Catholic?
24%
How many are Mormon? Orthodox? Jehovah’s Witness?
Mormon: 2%
Orthodox: 0.05%
Jehovah’s Witness: 0.05%
What are the percentages for other religions (outside Christianity)?
Total: 23% Jewish: 2% Muslim: 0.05% Hindu: 0.05% Buddhist: 0.05% Unitarian Universalists: 0.05% Other: 1% Nones: 18%
What is the role of stories in religion?
Morality and judgement vs. equality in God’s eyes.
Tradition vs. Progress
Law vs. Ministry
Trusting Institution vs. Trusting Individual
Accountability vs. Forgiveness
Wrath vs. Gentleness
What is Historical Interpretation?
Original purpose, historical context, author intention, and what really happened. Typically scholarly.
What is Literal Interpretation?
Attempt to look at text literally, doesn’t take historical context into account, can’t apply all texts. For example, Islam doesn’t eat pork, Christian women not speaking in Church.
What is Tradition Based Interpretation?
High regard for dominant traditions in community. For example, Buddhism is based on lineage, Catholicism, Islam women wearing hijabs.
What is Identity Based Interpretation?
Based on position in society (though often not acknowledged) to rationalize desire. Slavery in the south, for example.
What is Post-Structuralism/Post-Modern?
Not one particular meaning to text, hard to know historical context and author intent, and predominantly academic. Primarily applied to Christian text.
What is Literary Interpretation?
View texts as literature, learned through narratives, complex documents, and focuses on the author’s stories. The creation story as mythology, for example.
Revelatory/Experimental Interpretation?
Religious experience helps interpretation of texts. For example, fundamentalists reading the Bible together, prayer, singing hymns, etc.
<20% of American Christians are…
Mainline Protestants
Mainline Protestants are made up of
presbyterian, Disciples of Christ, Methodist, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Quakers, and Am. Baptists.
They tend to place an emphasis on _____
social justice.
They’re often considered to be ____
more liberal than evangelicals. The Bible is authoritative, but not necessarily literal.
What is the goal of a reconciling congregation?
Raise important questions about the relationship between politics and religion, the individual and the church, and questions of truth, sin, and biblical interpretations.
Civic Identity vs. Religious Identity.
Support LGBTQ.
What are the three types of Baptism with the Holy Spirit in Pentecostalism?
1) Baptism into the Body of Christ refers to salvation.
2) Water Baptism is symbollic of dying to the world and living in Christ.
3) Baptism with the Holy Spirit is where Christ is the agent, the Holy Spirit the medium.
What is eschatology?
(Pentecostalism) Concerned with final events of man kind and Christ’s possible return at any time.
What are some characteristics of Pentecostalism?
Divine healing (prayer is essential) and spiritual gifts which are received as a result of baptism and grouped into vocal and prophetic power.
What is glossolalia?
The practice of speaking in tongues?
What is premillenialism?
Jesus will literally be on the Earth for his millennial reign at his second coming.
