Chrs 125 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

____________ is a continuation of Luke. - Answer-The Acts of the Apostles What was the earliest gospel written? - Answer-Mark What was the most recently written gospel? - Answer-John True or False: Acts deals with the rise and growth of the early church. - Answer-True What types of literature are included in the NT? Can you outline the major sections of the NT? - AnswerLiterature: 27 books, 21 letters (history, letters, prophecies) Sections: 4 Gospels, The Acts of the Apostles, Letters, The...

17th Century the enlightenment places stress on _______ ________ and _________ which eventually led to challenges to the Christian faith and the Church's authority. - Answer-human reason; autonomy ______ ________ ___ ____________ was an early enlightenment thinker who attempted to blend together religion and enlightenment rationalism - Answer-Lord Herbert of Cherbyry Cherbury was considered the father of _______. - Answer-theism Cherbury said there were 5 natural laws of religion which can...

There are how many accounts of the story of creation? - Answer-2 Adam and Eve were both forbidden to eat from this tree? - Answer-The tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil God created the earth in this many days? - Answer-7 The creation story can be found in this book of the bible? - Answer-Genesis When the world is re-created this person is charged with building an ark? - Answer-Noah This term makes life harder, destroys relationships, and brings judgement from God - Answer-Sin Name a simil...

The lens through which one reads any text, including scripture, is called a _____________________. - Answer-Hermeneutic Given the West's move into postmodernity, we listed in class three responses to this situation (as listed by sociologist Clifford Geertz). They are _________________, ____________________, and ____________________. - Answer-Pluralism, Parochialism, Particularism Christians engage in a variety of communal activities that form (and reform) who we are, and assume beliefs ab...

Sanhedrin - Jewsih ruling council Herod's - Jewish rulers, clients of Rome Herod the Great - ruled over Israel at time of Jesus' birth Procurators - Roman governors Ponitus Pilate - governor resposible for Jesus' crucifixion Temple is destroyed for a second time in - 70 BCE Pharisees - meticulous rules, kept written/"oral" law Sadducees - highest priest/chief, accepted only written Torah, controlled Temple/Sanhedrin Essenes - believed doctrine of resurrection, final judgement, await...

The stories of creation are found in which book of the Bible ? - Answer-Genesis What are the three-fold division of the Old Testament ? - Answer-Tanakah There are __ books in the New Testament - Answer-27 The extra 15 books found in the Roman Catholic Bibles but not in Protestant Bibles are called... - AnswerThe Apocrypa The first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) are known as - Answer-Torah This book ism the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old ...

What book in the NT was written first? - 1 Thessalonians What was the earliest gospel written? - Mark What was the most recently written gospel? - John True or False: The gospels are autobiographies of Jesus? - False True or False: Acts deals with the rise and growth of the early church? - True What types of literature are included in the NT? - 27 Writings: 4 Gospels, Acts, 13 Letters from Paul, 8 General Letters (Epistle Letters), One Apocalypse What is the difference between Pauline Let...

True or False? The Reformation was a monolithic movement. - False ____________ reformers were those who carried out their reform efforts with the aid of the secular rulers. - Magisterial _____________reformers were those who carried out their reform efforts in opposition to/outside the power of the secular rulers. - Radical Martin Luther's doctrine of Justification by faith advocated that faith alone leads to _______________ - Salvation The idea behind _________________ is that in heaven...