Systematic Theology 1 Midterm

The study of the Holy Spirit

The meaning of Evangelical contains a missionary thrust.

The Study of Christ

Sola Fide

This is an extremely liberal view that says the bible is mostly a book of stories (narratives)

God exist in and of himself and cannot be explained by any prior cause.

Holds that God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases.

The Holy Spirit interacted with human writers to produce the Bible.

The Study of the End Times

Council of Jamnia (AD 70) = confirmed the books that the faith community already deemed as the canon.

The study of Sin

Soli Dei Gloria

Holiness is also costly for the Christian, since it calls him to a life of _________________under the cross.

______is a discipline of theology that formulates an orderly, rational account of the doctrines of the Christian faith.

What other discipline does systematic theology NOT share its systematic task with?

The study of the nature of humanity

_____________ is the quality of having unlimited power and potential.

God did not have to mold the world out of a material that was preexistent or coeternal.

The Study of the Church

Canon =“measuring stick”

The Pharisees added what to the scripture? While the Sadducees subtracted what from the scripture? _____, ____

____________ means that God is both ________ and ______________

Sola Scriptura

Defends Christianity against objections.

The most frequent name for God in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word Jehovah and connotes a divine plurality in unity.

We always downplay doctrine in favor of experience.

The Church through the ages has affirmed the doctrine of creation ex nihilo (out of nothing).

The doctrine of the Trinity was defined and sharpened in the councils of the Church beginning with Nicea, in what year?

God is love, but his love exists in tension with his_________

The ___________of ___________ is the foundation of all____________

The term implies God simply dictated the Bible to human scribes.

Historical criticism, is also known as the historical-critical method or lower criticism.

Evangelical Christianity is _____ in its character, _______ in its substance, and ___ _______in its emphasis- J.Stott

According to our text, Evangelicalism stressed these tenets towards liberalism except one. Which one?

Soteriology

God inspired the thoughts of the biblical writers, but not necessarily the words they wrote.

It is not sufficient to hold that Christ was like God: we must boldly affirm that God was in Christ

The study of the Bible

Scripture is more than a human witness to revelation: it is ______itself mediated through human words

Holiness connotes ___________________ from all that is unclean.

Sola Christus

A sinful mankind could not be _______________ to a holy God on their own.

Sola Gratia

Modalism considers God to be one while working through the different _______ or Manifestations of Father, Son, and HS