Biblical Theology Test Two

This essay (Zizioulas, "Proprietors or Priests of Creation?") is about how we should understand:

A model of the human relationship to creation.

Wright presents ________ as the means by which Abraham will bless the nations.

Abraham instructing his descendants to do righteousness and justice.

The problem at Babel is:

Assuming that people can live without acknowledging God.

Christian salvation is about:

Becoming more human.

Judging by God's calling of Abraham, god accomplishes his:

Cosmic mission through particular means.

The beginning of the Christian gospel is:

Creation

Wright emphasizes __________ in the human-creation relationship.

Creation's suffering on account of human sin.

According to Wright, the language of "outcry" in Genesis emphasizes that Sodom's sin was:

Cruelty and oppression.

T/F: In the Old Testament, "justice" means blind impartiality, everyone being treated the same.

False

T/F: The church orders its life history according to wider society's timetable, such as the 9-5 workday.

False

T/F: The order of creation can be observed by looking directly at creation.

False

T/F: The stewardship model prioritizes what a human being is, but the priestly model emphasizes what a human being does.

False

T/F: The word "Oikonomia" describes literally the ordering of an economy, or administration.

False

T/F: What distinguishes humanity from animals is biology.

False

T/F: Wright argues that Christians must be like Abraham and that God always calls people to leave their place (and that this going cannot be merely spiritual, mental or attitudinal, it must be physical).

False

T/F: Wright explains God's plan of salvation begins with his desire to save individuals, continues on to the church so that they will have a place to be encouraged along the way, and ends with these individuals' escape into heaven.

False

T/F: Wright explains that the redemption accomplished by the cross of Jesus Christ is focused exclusively on the spiritual dimension and therefore Christianity is an exclusively spiritual religion.

False

T/F: Wright holds that God's blessings are the automatic response to prayer and faith and therefore, spiritual welfare can be measured by material welfare.

False

In the priestly model, nature is developed:

For its own fulfillment.

In the Old Testament, "blessing" means:

Fruitfulness and abundance, fullness, rest, and a right relationship with God.

Those who have been redeemed by God should live lives marked by:

Generosity

Abraham is a model for God's mission in that:

God's promise to Abraham reveals the goals of God's mission, and Abraham's response to God's promise is an exemplary response to God's call.

The proper response to God's creative activity is:

Gratitude

The view of humans as stewards who care for creation implies that?

Human beings are managers of property.

The chapters of Genesis before Abraham's story begins to tell the story of?

Human rebellion against God bringing chaos and death to all creation.

God's punishment is really a gift of grace because:

Humans are forced to recognize their dependence on God.

Order in the new creation involves a "third dimension." which is:

Jesus

The primary response to God's redemption ought to be:

Praise (worship) and thanksgiving.

Christ reorders the world in the form of a:

Servant

What will be destroyed in the final judgment?

Sin and rebellion.

Wright describes God's judgement of Sodom as:

Something God does in order to bring about blessing for all nations.

In the Old Testament, "righteousness" means:

Something being as it ought to be.

God freed the Israelites from _______ bondage.

Spiritual and religious, ethnic and social, economically exploitative, and political.

In the Old Testament, your go'el (redeemer) would NOT have been responsible for:

Teaching you how to get what you want from God.

Wright claims that ________ is an echo of Abraham in the New Testament.

The description of Jesus Christ as the slain lamb in revelation, Paul's teaching regarding God's justification of sinners, and the pattern of Jesus reaching out the excluded in the gospels.

Which Old Testament story stands at the heart of Wright's understanding of redemption?

The exodus from Egypt.

Wright argues that Paul interprets God's promise to Abraham as:

The gospel itself.

To be a disciple of Jesus means:

The participation in the drama of God's redemption of the world.

Wright presents ethical action (doing good or "walking in the way of the LORD) as:

The way God blesses the nations.

What does "order" mean?

The way in which worship and mission participate in the obedience of Christ.

The human being is a priest of creation because:

They unite the world in reference to God.

In the Old Testament, "justice" means:

Things being put right.

T/F: At Pentecost, God created a new people called "church", who embody the story of god's redemption in Jesus Christ in the world.

True

T/F: The Church is a sign of the "new age" and becomes an alternative to the fear and violence of Babel.

True

T/F: The church lives and works as the earthly and historical from of Christ's body on earth by looking beyond the current order to the future order that will come with Christ's second coming.

True

T/F: The church's space in this world is the presence of Christ.

True

T/F: The idea of the "image and likeness of God" expresses humankind is a link between God and the world.

True

T/F: Wright argues that those who are politically, economically, socially, and spiritually redeemed by God are called to political, economic, social and spiritual mission.

True

T/F: Wright criticises the Christian tendency to make the cross a theological basis of evangelization (spreading the good news about Jesus) but then use some other theological basis for ethics and social involvement.

True

T/F: Wright explains "the way of the Lord" as implying that the commands of Israel's God are related to the character of Israel's God and that the character of this God is quite distinct from that of other gods.

True

T/F: Wright holds that the mission of the people of God to the nations is ethical at its core and that the lives of God's people are intended to reflect a God who is radically different from the gods of the nations.

True

T/F: Wright holds that we are not redeemed out of creation but as part of the redeemed creation itself.

True

T/F: Wright interprets the image of God as something that enables and entitles us to exercise dominion, rather than the exercise of dominion and enabling and entitling us to the image of God..

True

T/F: Wright shows that blessings call for obedience, but that blessing are not earned by obedience.

True

T/F: Wright teaches that the church is the continuation of God's plan to bless the nations and that the church finds its roots in Abraham.

True

In order to know what dominion is we must ask:

What kind of King is God? How does God exercise his authority?