Exam 2 Questions and Answers
The arch-heretic named _______ taught that Christ is a created being, and that the title "God" is only honorific when applied to Christ.
Arius
The doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture:
B and C (textual support, bedrock of reform)
T/F: As used in the Nicene creed the term "homoousia" means that God the Son is very much like God the Father.
F
T/F: Being desirous to protect its affirmation of Christ's deity, the church has been rightly hesitant to call Mary "mother of God."
F
T/F: Christians readily confess that Jesus Christ is ontologically subordinate to the Father but insist that Jesus Christ is in no way functionally subordinate to the Father.
F
T/F: During the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, theologians such as Martin Luther and John Calvin criticized the theology of the medieval church for its lack of confidence in the instructive capacity of general revelation.
F
T/F: God's oneness/monotheism is asserted in the Older Testament, but is somewhat ambiguous in the Newer Testament.
F
T/F: Heresy shows that even attacks from outside the church contribute to the advancement of Christian orthodoxy.
F
T/F: Liberal churches/Christians tend to struggle most acutely with the humanity of Christ, while conservative churches/Christians tend to struggle most acutely with the deity of Christ.
F
T/F: Much like systematic theology, biblical theology is primarily concerned with relating biblical truth to contemporary issues
F
T/F: The "word of God" is a phrase which strictly designates the Bible/Scripture.
F
T/F: The Father is not the Son, thus it follows that the Father is not in the Son.
F
T/F: The classical biblical source for discussions about the kenosis theory is Phil. chapter 4.
F
T/F: The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception maintains that Jesus Christ was conceived in such a way as to render him sinless.
F
T/F: The great diversity within the universal Christian church is evidenced by the fact that there is very little consensus regarding the dogmas of the Christian faith.
F
T/F: The omnipresence of God means that God is present everywhere, and consequently, that God is accessible everywhere.
F
T/F: The perspicuity/ clarity of Scripture means that Scripture is always easy to understand.
F
Which of the following biblical texts asserts God's unchangeableness, or immutability?
Malachi 3:6
_____, or "coinheritance", refers to the mutual indwelling or interpenetration of Father, Son and Spirit: _____
Perichoresis; 1 Cor. 2:10-11
Which of these biblical texts exemplifies a person of God viewing general revelation correctly through the "spectacles" of special revelation?
Psalm 19:1-4
One who confesses a theologically accurate doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture could readily affirm all of the following statements, except:
Scripture is the product of the Spirit's transce-like superintendence of human authors
T/F: Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christians are all in agreement that the same twenty-seven writings comprise the Newer Testament.
T
T/F: God's chief attributes is that he is Trinity.
T
T/F: In Scripture, "the knowledge of God" pertains to every dimension of the human person, that is, to their intellectual, volitional, emotional, and moral dimensions.
T
T/F: Modalism was an attempt, albeit a profoundly inadequate attempt, to defend the early church against the charge of tritheism- that is, the belief in/worship of three gods.
T
T/F: The "incommunicable attributes" of God attest to and accentuate the infinite qualitative difference between God and humans.
T
T/F: The connection between right doctrine and right worship is inseparable, as "orthodoxy" conveys not only the notion of correct doctrine, but more precisely, of correct worship.
T
T/F: The ontological Trinity refers to God's eternal self- existence, apart from creation.
T
T/F: The prevailing characteristic that set the God of Israel apart from the idols of the Gentile nations is that God speaks.
T
T/F: The supremely paradoxical nature of the incarnation of Jesus Christ teaches us that even when God reveals himself, he simultaneously conceals himself to all but the eyes of faith.
T
T/F: Theology is an inescapable human exercise, and therefore all people are theologians, and even atheists.
T
The Western church added the "Filioque Clause" to the Nicene Creed in order to assert:
That the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son
For historic Protestantism, what is the ultimate basis for the authority of Scripture?
The self-authenticating witness of the Holy Spirit
As to Christ's virgin birth, we should readily affirm all of the following statements, except:
The virgin birth proves that Christ is God
To confess Christ's _________ is to confess that he is truly, fully, eternally God.
deity
Liberal or modernist churches tend to think of the Bible as containing divine wisdom in the form of ethical/moral instruction, not in the form of _________ instruction.
doctrinal
The _________ refers to the tri-personal God's external relations, rather than the tri-personal God's internal relations....
economic trinity
To maintain that God is impassible would be quite problematic, if by impassibility one means that God is without ________.
emotion
Christians can claim to possess genuine, accurate, and non-contradictory knowledge of God, but not ___________ knowledge of God.
exhaustive
The canon of Scripture is the criteria for determining the _________ collection.
canonical
The so-called "Four Fences of Chalcedon" maintains that the divine and humans natures of Jesus Christ are joined without division, without separation, without confusion, and without _________.
change
Examples of special revelation include:
All but D (present day)
The chief error of Apollinarius was that, in effect, he:
B. Denied the full humanity of Jesus Christ
Systematic theology has essentially two tasks, a critical task and a _________ task.
Constructive
The chief error of Nestorius was that, in effect, he:
Denied the hypostatic union of divinity and humanity in the person of Jesus Christ
The church owes a considerable debt to heresy for every reason except that heresy:
Forces the church to solve doctrinal puzzles
The _____ of God conveys the notion of God being "on show", the ultimate and characteristic expression of which is the cross of Jesus Christ: _____
Glory; Heb. 1:1-3
Which of the following is not an accurate statement regarding the doctrine of the Trinity?
God is a person.
Which of the following is a "communicable" attribute of God?
Holiness
The _____ of God means that he relentlessly opposes evil, and that evil necessarily mobilizes his righteous wrath: _____
Holiness; Rom. 1:16-18
Modalism is the heresy that:
Is sometimes referred to as Sebellianism and/ or Patripassianism
Which of the following statements is not true of general revelation?
It is propositional, rather than non-propositional, in character.
Christians who confess that Scripture is a "means of grace" do so in order to articulate their conviction that the written word of God is divinely intended to convey the real, spiritual presence of _________.
Jesus Christ
In the Nicene Creed, the term "homoousia" is intended to communicate that:
Jesus Christ is of the same being/nature as the Father
Those who ascribe to the _____ theory maintain that Christ emptied himself of some or all of his divine attributes by becoming human:_____
Kenosis; Phil. 2:1-8
The main contribution of the Older Testament to the doctrine of the Trinity is the emphasis on _____, the truth that God is numerically one: _____.
Monotheism; Deut. 6:4
Which of the following is an "incommunicable" attribute of God?
None of the above
At the root of every error and misconception about the person of Jesus Christ is a denial:
One of more of the above
If humans are to know God in any sure, certain, and salvific sense, God must speak. This is true for all the following reasons, except:
Only God's speech removes the mystery and paradox that otherwise obscures the truth
Which of the following is not an accurate end to this sentence? "Christian theology..."
Rejects rationality as well as rationalism.
When we confess the _________ of Christ, we mean that he is like us in every way, sin excepting.
humanity
Historic Protestantism teaches that Jesus Christ was born without sin due to an immediate work of the Holy Spirit, whereas Roman Catholicism attributes Christ's sinless birth to his mother Mary's exemption from sin, this exemption being the result of Mary's own _________.
immaculate conception
God's _________ is fundamental to our confidence in him, for it means God always has been, now is, and forever will be nothing or no one other than himself.
immutability
God's _________ means that God is non-created, self-existent, and non-contingent, that he is "from himself" and thus needs nothing from his creatures.
independence
God is ________, declares 1 John 4:8
love
One major difference between Christian orthodoxy and heresy is that Christian orthodoxy seeks to articulate doctrine in a way that safeguards _________, whereas heresy attempts to solve it.
mystery
God's _________ means not that God is able to do anything without qualification, but that God is able to do all that corresponds with his character, that he is able to accomplish his holy will.
omnipotence
The _________ of God means that God is present with his whole being in all places at all times.
omnipresence
God's ___________ means not only that God fully knows himself, but also that God fully knows all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.
omniscience
So-called "open theists" truncate and distort God's _________ by stating that God's knowledge is limited to actualities, as opposed to possibilities/potentialities.
omniscience
The self-disclosure of God given to specific people at specific times and in specific places is known as _________.
special revelation
The _________ argument is the the theistic "proof" which attempts to deduce the existence of God from the perceived order and design of the universe.
teleological
Systematic theology ought to biblically sourced, historically informed, and culturally contextualized. Accordingly, systematic theology must be concerned with the text of Scripturem the _________ , and the thought forms of the world.
tradition of the church
To confess God's ____ is to confess that God's attributes are in no way extrinsic to his being and that none of God's attributes are better more fitting or more important than others
unity/ simplicity
When Scripture ascribes "majesty" to God, it is at once a declaration of God's greatness and an invitation to ________.
worship
