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THEOLOGY FINAL STUDY GUIDE
Test 1
1.Collected writings, artifacts, practices, and wisdom handed down by Christians, one
generation to the next, is known as
Scripture
Tradition
Doctrines
Creeds
2. The study of right and wrong and how people should act based on what is right from within a
religious context is known as
Historical theology
Moral theology and ethics
Pastoral theology
Systematic theology
3. Bible literalism is an approach to the scriptures that holds that whatever the Scriptures state
should be understood to be true in the most straightforward sense possible.
True
False
4. Books related to the Bible (known as “hidden” or “other writings” that may be inspirational, but
do not carry authority or approval are called
Creed
Apocrypha
Canon
Pseudepigrapha
5. The perspective that we lack sufficient evidence for God’s existence or nonexistence (that a
person neither believes nor does not believe in God) is referred to as ______________
6. The Hebrew Scriptures are referred to as all of the following except
Pentateuch
TANAKH
Vultagate
Torah
7. Abraham’s only son named Isaac
True
False
8. The New Testament books that focus on the acts and teachings of Jesus are known as
Gospels
Epistoles
Acts of the Apostles
TANAKH
9. Those who were called directly by Jesus to follow him, and who spread the good news about
Jesus after his death are referred to by this title:
Apostles
Gentles
Jews
Elders
10. The form of biblical criticism that seeks to recover the original text as it was written by the
author is referred to as ____________ criticism.
11. The study of the last things is known as
Pneumatology
Christology
Soteriology
Eschatology
12. There are _____ (number) books in the Christians New Testament.
13. Given the private nature of religion in contemporary society, the Church and theologians
never understand themselves as speaking to the world at large in their work.
True
False
14. The form of biblical criticism that looks to recover the editorial process in which an author
engages in the writing of a text is referred to as:
Redaction criticism
Form criticism
Source criticism
Textual criticism
15. ____________ theology is the type that focuses on the political implications of Christianity
for social liberation.
16. The ____________ approach to religion is one that looks for the commonalities and
similarities between the sacred and profane.
17. Rhetorical criticism is the form of biblical criticism that looks for linguistic forms (ex. Poetry
eulogies, mythology) in a text.
True
False
18. Which Old Testament figure is credited with leading the Israelites out of enslavement in
Egypt?
Aaron
Isaac
Abraham
Moses
19. An individual's experience is counted as among the sources for knowledge about God in the
Christian faith.
True
False
20. _____________ is the name given to the event in the book of Acts in which the apostles
preach to the crowd and everyone hears them in their own native language.
Test 2
1.Because of the historical record of the death of King Herod, we now believe that Jesus was
born between 6 and 4 BCE.
True
False
2. The two most prominent mainstream Reformers were Martin Luther, whose ideas gave rise to
Lutheranism, and _______________ who is most commonly associated with Reformed or
Presbyterian
Christianity.
3. Latin for "and the son," the word __________was added to the Nicene Creed by the Roman
Catholic Church as they believe that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both Father and Son.
Parousia
Filioque
Homoousios
Aeterni Patris
4. The final destruction of the Jewish temple occurred in the year ______under Roman
persecution.
In Jewish history, there were twelve tribes of Israel corresponding to the twelve sons of the
patriarchJacob. How many tribes made up the Northern Kingdom?
6
8
10
12
The Immaculate Conception refers to Jesus' being conceived without Original Sin.
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True
False
7. Martin Luther's belief that we should rely upon nothing but the Christian Scriptures for truth
concerning God and the life of faith he referred to as
Sola scriptura
Humane Vitae
Theotokos
Kenosis
8. The Great Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches took place in the year
_________
9. The Christian study of salvation is referred to as
Eschatology
Ecclesiology
Pneumatology
Soteriology
The description of the roles that the different members of the Trinity play in the work of the
creation, salvation, and sustaining of the world is referred to as the Economic Irinity.
True
False
According to Portier, Religious Experience used as an engaged term is more properly referred
to as ___________
The self-emptying love that the Father has for the Son, the Son has for the Father, and God has
for us without remainder we refer to as _________________
The Christian heretical belief that Jesus reserved secret teachings concerning the evil of the
physical world and its creation by a demigod rather than the Christian God is called
Montanism
Gnosticism
Nestorianism
Donatism
14. The Catholic Church affirms that Mary is co-redemptrix with Christ.
True
False
15. The disclosure of God revealed in and through creation we refer to as General or
___________ Revelation.
16. In the Catholic Church, an indulgence is understood as a sign of one's contrition for a sin
they have committed.
True
False
17. The New Testament canon of Scripture, the determination as to which books will be officially
regarded as a part of the New Testament, was set at the ____________
Council of Carthage
Council of Nicaea C.
Second Council of Constantinople
First Council of Chalcedon
18. The heretical belief that Jesus only had only a divine, and not a human, mind is referred to
as ________________
Donatism
Pelagianism
Valentianism
Apollinarianism
19. The leader of the Eastern Orthodox Churches is referred to as the ________________ of
_____________________
20. Ecumenicism is the modern attempt to restore Christian unity through bringing all Christians
back under a single Christian denomination.
True
False
Test 3
1. The word Qur’an translates as
Allah
Bible
Goodness
Reciation
2. The author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism who argues that capitalism is
the result of the Protestant concern with assuring oneself of one salvation, was the 19th century
writer ____________
3. An identifying central doctrine of Jewish theology in the Sherma, which reads, “Hear O Israel,
the Lord is our God and the Lord is one”
True
False
4. The positions held by some Christians that Christians should do all they can, specifically
electing Christian leaders into public office, to being secular society under the authority of the
Church is referred to as _______________
5. According to Muslim tradition, the first converts to Islam were Muhammad’s friends and
family
True
False
6. The Catholic exycidcal from 1891 on the rights of works that critiques both socialism and
capitalism is _________
Rerum Norawum
Laudeo SI
Nostros Aeete
Dei Verbago
7. Translating as “that which was received” these texts in the Hindu scriptures regarded as the
pure revelation of Brahman referred to as _________________
8. Pope Francis calls for a new understanding of the natural world which positions human society
as a part of nature and not separate from it in his discussion of an integral ecology
True
False
9. The Muslim calendar begins with which of the following events from Muslim history:
The birth of Muhammad
The death of Muhammad
The Establishment of the First Muslim Community in Medina
The Muslim Conquest of Mecca
10. _______________________________ is the problematic belief that everything in history
that took place after the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 CE is completely unimportant.
11. The changing cause of the world in Hinduism, which attempts to pull everything in existence
apart is called ___________________
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Prakriti
Purusha
Atman
Brahman
12. Which of the following is not an ethical system explored in Christian ethics/Moral Theology?
Ethical egoism
Demonology
Natural law
13. The belief that, while Christianity in the fullness of truth, God is at work in non-Christian
religions and the possibility of salvation is extended to non-Christians is referred to as ________
14. In Judaism, the Hebew four-letter word for God is referred to as the tetragrammaton
True
False
15. In Buddhism, one ends craving by following ________________
16. The Pillar of Islam which relates to fasting during the months of Ramadan is referred to as
____________
17. The ___________ moment in Hinduism responded to the rise of Buddhism by incorporating
philosophical teachings into Hindu doctrine and practice
18. ___________ Judaism views the Torah as the result of direct dictation by God to Moses and
thus the law recorded in the the scriptures does not evolve in any fashion
Orthodox
Conservative
Reformed
Liberal
19. According to Islam, _________________________ is the author of the Qur’an
20. Every Muslim who is financially and physically capable is obliged to travel to Mecca once a
year for the Haji
True
False