Th501 Midterm

Question 1

Two great “mysteries” of the Christian faith:
Trinity; the ______ mystery.
And the Incarnation; the ______ mystery

Answer 1

“necessary” mystery &

“free” mystery

Question 2

Term for what is shared in common by Father, Son, Spirit:_____(Eng.) ______ (Gr.)

Answer 2

nature/essence (Eng.)

ousia (Gr.)

Question 3

Term for Father, Son, Spirit as distinction in Trinity:_____(Eng.) ______ (Gr.)

Answer 3

person (Eng.)

hypostasis (Gr.)

Question 4

Term for interpenetration or co-inherence of Father, Son, Spirit:

Answer 4

perichoresis

Question 5

Two famous theologians n 20t c. who sparked ‘Trinitarian Renaissance’:

Answer 5

Karl Barth & Karl Rahner

Question 6

Considered to be the most important theologian of the Trinity in the Latin/Western church:

Answer 6

Augustine

Question 7

Term for Trinity in eternity:

Answer 7

ontological

Question 8

Term for Trinity in time and history:

Answer 8

economic

Question 9

Trinitarian heresy in which Father, Son, Spirit are temporary manifestations of one God:

Answer 9

modalism

Question 10

Trinitarian heresy in which Son or Spirit are not fully equal to the Father:

Answer 10

subordinationism

Question 11

Three essential statements on the doctrine of the Trinity:

Answer 11

A. There is only 1 God.
B. This 1 God exists eternally in 3 persons.
C. These 3 persons are completely equal, each fully possessing the divine nature.

Question 12

Trinity: “one ______, three _____”
Christ: “two ______, one _____”

Answer 12

Trinity:“one nature, three persons”
Christ: “two natures, one person”

Question 13

First four Ecumenical Councils: location/name

Answer 13

Nicea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon

Question 14

First four Ecumenical Councils: decisions summary

Answer 14

N. Jesus (& HS) = fully God
C. Jesus = fully human
E. Christ = 1 person
Ch. Christ has 2 natures

Question 15

Atoms

Answer 15

Democritus

Question 16

Everything is made of water.

Answer 16

Thales

Question 17

“You can’t step in the same river twice.”

Answer 17

Heraclitus

Question 18

“Know thyself.”

Answer 18

Socrates

Question 19

Real knowledge is knowledge of the Forms. (also, knowledge is a Justified True Belief)

Answer 19

Plato

Question 20

Forms are embodied in individuals. Knowledge is derived from sense experience.

Answer 20

Aristotle

Question 21

The simplest hypothesis is more likely to be true.

Answer 21

William of Ockham

Question 22

Knowledge is based on sense experience. Society is based on contracts between individuals.

Answer 22

John Locke

Question 23

Knowledge is based on clear and distinct ideas. “Cogito, ergo sum.”

Answer 23

Descartes

Question 24

Valid knowledge is based on logic, mathematics, or sense experience. We can observe ‘correlation’ but not prove ‘causation.’

Answer 24

David Hume

Question 25

We can never know the thing-in-itself, only the thing as it appears to us. The mind imposes the categories of space, time, and causality on our experiences.

Answer 25

Immanuel Kant

Question 26

History is the dialectical movement (thesis ->antithesis ->synthesis) of Absolute Spirit.

Answer 26

Georg Friedrich Hegel

Question 27

Random variations, population pressure, and natural selection give rise to new species.

Answer 27

Charles Darwin

Question 28

The ruling ideas of any age are the ideas of the ruling classes; ideas are the reflections of social structures. “Religion is the opiate of the masses."

Answer 28

Karl Marx

Question 29

'God' is the human projection of an infantile ‘father’ figure.

Answer 29

Sigmund Freud

Question 30

"God is dead.” Ideologies are thinly-veiled rationalizations of the will to power.

Answer 30

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 31

Truth is the ‘cash value’ of an idea.

Answer 31

William James

Question 32

"I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."

Answer 32

Jean Francois Lyotard

Question 33

‘Knowledge’ is produced and constricted by those with power, and expressed in ‘discourses’ that justify their dominant and privileged places in the social order.

Answer 33

Michel Foucault

Question 34

Words in a text refer only to other words in the text – not to ‘things’ outside the text.

Answer 34

Jacques Derrida

Question 35

“Truth is what my colleagues let me get away with"

Answer 35

Richard Rorty

Question 36

"There is no fixed meaning in a text. Meaning is a social construction by communities of interpretation."

Answer 36

Stanley Fish

Question 37

4 sources (of truth):

Answer 37

- Empiricism - Rationalism - Intuitionism - Testimony of a credible witness

Question 38

3 tests to verify (sources):

Answer 38

- correspondence - coherence - consequence

Question 39

2 types of sources:

Answer 39

primary or secondary

Question 40

Axiology

Answer 40

"What is the highest good?"

Question 41

Aristotle's 4 Causes:

Answer 41

Material Cause - the stuff out of which something is made. Formal Cause - the defining characteristics of (e.g., shape) the thing. Final Cause - the purpose of the thing. Efficient Cause - the antecedent condition that brought the thing about.

Question 42

'4 Ontologies' (Dr. Davis')

Answer 42

1. Pantheism- 'prehistory' 2. Materialism- 'modernity' 3. Virtualism- 'postmodernity' 4. Theism- 'eternity'

Question 43

Holy Spirit = God:

Answer 43

Acts 5 | 1 Cor 3:16

Question 44

Jesus = God:

Answer 44

John 1 Mk 1 Phil 2:5-6

Question 45

Holy Spirit is NOT the Father:

Answer 45

John 14:26

Question 46

Holy Spirit is NOT Jesus:

Answer 46

John 16:7

Question 47

Jesus is NOT the Father:

Answer 47

John 8:16

Question 48

All 3 persons of trinity present in scripture but distinct:

Answer 48

Mt 28 | 1 Pt 1:2