Theology quizzes

Where can you find Jesus' command "Love your Enemies" in the New Testament?

Genuflecting before an alter is an example of a nonverbal form of faith

What terms refers to the perspective or biases stemming from a person's race, gender, and class?

Which of the following is not a creed of the early church?

To do theology, one must proceed from and reflect within a given faith tradition objectively but also in one's own life

Creighton insists on the God-given dignity of every person and it calls on students to grapple with

What is St. Anselm's definition of theology?

What revels God through the story of Jesus as the Christ who impart God's saving power to the person of faith?

What Jewish philosopher did Martin Luther King cite in his letter from jail? ("I-it" relationship for an "I-Thou")

Postmodernism=knowledge is situated in cultural tradition and ?s if there is essence beyond the language that shape them

Scripture understands revelation primarily to be God's direct self-disclosure through the "acts of God"

What is the basis or criterion by which judgment of belief about the truths and rightness of price is made?

Theology and the faith it seeks to understand do not begin at the point where reason gives out

Who argued that faith is more a matter of the heart than the brain, and more of the disposition than the understanding?

Both faith and reason are fully engaged from the very beginning of the theological process

Rausch argues that the task of theology is to understand and interpret the faith experience for individual believers

Inbody argues that Christian faith is not merely generic faith, but is a way of life that entails a ... between, ...

St. Thomas Aquinas is the founder of Thomistic theology

Which of the philosophers did MLK cite in his letter from Birmingham jail?

According to Vatican I, faith is a __

_ = is a natural knowledge of God inherent in human experience. It's the belief that God leaves footprints in nature

What latin word comes from the word meaning "to echo"?

Theology is the same from of religious education known as catechesis.

What is the anthropological counterpart to God's movement towards us?

What are the four tools that theologians use to respond to the events and ideas of history and the present time?

What is the most famous rallying cry of the Protestant Reformation?

What is theological methodology?

Theologians think faith is blind. It doesn't really matter if what you believe makes any sense.

What happened after the Protestant theologians applied the same scientific methods used in history to biblical studies?

What is the process and product of God's self-disclosure known as?

What are the four sections of the New Testament?

What is the infinite beauty and greatness of God's manifold perfections?

What pre-modern synthesis collapsed in the modern west?

What does apokalypsis signify?

What are the three sections of the Hebrew bible?

The bible is one criteria that theologians use to assess theological statements

Asserts that we don't know/believe the Christian faith on the basis of evidence/proof/any other basis than sheer belief

What is the claim that scripture is the sole source and norm for theology and practice?

The 1st Vatican Council insisted that faith is "consonant" with reason, and that reason is "illuminated" by faith

What are the three main audiences for theology?

What two theologians did Martin Luther King cite in his letter?

What is the loss of order, meaning and purpose in life that faith provides?

What was the burning bush that Moses encountered in Exodus, Ch. 3?

What is the Christian tradition's primary confession of faith?

_ is the theory of how we know what we know, either through authority, intuition, faith, reason, experiment, ect.