Theology & Theological Method
Anselm defined theology as this.
What is faith seeking understanding?
The study of the Bible.
What is Bibliology?
The transmission of Scripture began with this method before books were written.
What is oral tradition?
The lens through which a person understands and interprets the world.
What is a worldview?
The belief that truth and morality depend on culture, society, or personal perspective.
What is relativism?
The study of how we know things.
What is epistemology?
God's revelation through nature and creation.
What is General Revelation?
These famous manuscript discoveries confirmed the accuracy of many Old Testament texts.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The philosopher associated with the term Weltanschauung.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
The belief that truth is objective and remains true regardless of circumstances or opinions.
What is absolutism?
The four major sources used in theological reflection.
What are Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Experience?
God's revelation through Scripture, Christ, visions, and dreams.
What is Special Revelation?
The earliest New Testament fragment commonly discussed in Bible transmission studies.
What is P52?
Three major influences on worldview formation.
What are family/upbringing, education, and culture?
The theory that something is true if it corresponds to the way things actually are in the world.
What is the correspondence theory of truth?
The principle that God determines how He is known rather than humans determining it first.
What is the primacy of the object?
The process by which the Holy Spirit guided biblical authors to write God's Word.
What is Inspiration?
The scholarly process of comparing manuscripts to identify the most likely original wording.
What is textual criticism?
According to the worldview lesson, our beliefs ultimately shape these.
What are our actions and behaviors?
The view that reality consists only of natural causes and natural phenomena.
What is naturalism?
This theological approach emphasizes logical clarity, precision, and philosophical rigor.
What is Analytic Theology?
The four criteria used to recognize New Testament books.
What are Inspiration, Apostolicity, Catholicity, and Orthodoxy?
Explain why having thousands of biblical manuscripts strengthens confidence in the Bible.
What is because scholars can compare manuscripts, identify copying variations, and reconstruct the original text with a high degree of confidence?
This Bible passage teaches that Christians are transformed by the renewing of the mind.
What is Romans 12:1-2?
The belief that reality includes both physical and nonphysical realities.
What is supernaturalism?