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Grenz and Olson
3. What represents the greatest chasm between the merely knowledgeable lay Christian thinker and the truly reflective lay theologian?
Perhaps the largest hurdle of greatest chasm between the merely knowledgeable lay Christian thinker and the truly reflective lay theologian is the ability to think about Christian truth critically and constructively.
Introducing Christianity
2. Whats the central theme of Jesus teaching?
The Kingdom of God
3. Why was Christianity perceived as a threat to the Roman Empire?
Because their belief proclaimed that Jesus is their Lord and met in secret places, believers refused to worship idols, and they were accused for atheism because they worshipped an invisible God
9. What are the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed? Know difference between them
Apostles Creed-
Text used in Christian worship
Early church documents
Father, Son, Holy Spirit
Nicene Creed-
Earliest official creed
Combats Arianism
Heresy taught that Jesus was fully divine and human
10. What role did women play in the early church and how did their role change as the church became more institutionalized?
Women disciples played an important part in the early Christian church
Changed as Christian movement became more Roman, male oriented
Women were gradually excluded from official leadership in the church
11. Who was the first Roman emperor to become a Christian?
Constantine
12. Why is the Edict of Milan important in the Churchs History?
Stopped the persecution of Christians
13. What are icons?
Pictoral images of saints or special events in the life of the church
14. Why do some Christians ask saints and martyrs to intercede for them?
The saints and martyrs were said to be alive after death and said to be present in heaven with Christ after death and their presence in heaven placed them closer to God so their prayers would be better heard than those of the humble Christians on earth
15. Be familiar with each of the three Latin slogans summarizing the “cry of the Reformation” and what they mean.
Sola scriptura is the principle that the church must base its doctrines, practices, and ethics on the Bible alone.
Sola fides teaches that salvation from sin does not come from living a good life or doing good deeds, but from putting ones faith in Jesus Christ.
Sola gratia, salvation is a free gift that comes through grace alone, and can not be earned.
16. What important conclusion did Luther reach concerning work or labor?
Any job a Christian does, when pleasing to God, is a calling or vocation, from the Lord. All labor that is pleasing to God and done according to Gods purpose is an appropriate expression of religious devotion.
18. According to Bruyneel and Padgett, what sociopolitical ideas did Calvinism help spread?
Capitalism and democracy
Christian college, Christian calling
What does Dan Speak suggest is the goal of discipleship?
Its not simply to conform our outward lives to him, but to come to think, feel, reason, and then act like him.
Be familiar with the key components of Aristotles and Kants ethical theories.
Aristotle- Right actions depend on right character rather than the other way around. Admiration is morally more important than praise and blame. Imitation is absolutely necessary so you become good only by practice. Good people perform the right actions by habit. That is to say that you havent really become good until you have developed a natural disposition to do what is right. A good person is someone who is no longer trying to be good, but who simply has goodness flowing out of them by nature. (17-18)
Kant- insisting that only a good will is truly good. Kant concludes that intelligence, perseverance, honesty, and just about every other good trait are really only good under the right conditions. He argues that a person has a good will when he attempts to do what is right simply because it is right. We find one of the clearest accounts in history of an ethics is based on duty. What moves you is at least as important as what you actually do. Kant was also deeply troubled by the way that many people determine what they should do by considering what would result from the action. Kant makes this point by saying we out never to treat people as means only but always at the same time as “ends in themselves.” A persons value is unconditional. (18-21)
Why does Dennis Okholm suggest studying church history is important to the Christian?
Studying church history helps us to make sense of the past, helps us to put the present in perspective, gives us guidance for the future, helps us to understand the Christian faith better in community with others “whose rest is won,” as that great hymn “The Churchs One Foundation” puts it, based on the fact that our only access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ through history, and finally because it helps to develop our spiritual lives. (90-94)
Class Notes
1. What does theanthropic mean?
Jesus represents the permanent joining of the eternal Word or 2nd person of the Trinity with humanity.
3. Be able to identify and describe each of the attempts to describe the union between God and man in Christ that the early church