Definitions
This is limited by the amount of information – knowledge or truth – revealed by God in Scripture and by the relative inferiority of human knowledge and experience to that of God.
What is theology
The most brilliant interpreter of scripture in the first 300 years of the church rivaled only by Augustine
Origen
This is normally the method by which philosophy and theology relate in the Apostolic and Subapostolic eras
What is theology is interpreted primarily through philosophy and not vice versa
Greek for "word"
Can also mean rationality, reason, or thought
What is Logos
This was among 'the peacetime duties’ of Roman soldiers
What is the building of roads and safety of travel
This greek word translates to a Latin meaning of "essence"
What is Ousia
Describe the two doctrine categories believed by Origen to be transmission methods from the apostles.
1. Necessary doctrine freely provided to all
2. other doctrines simply stated without explanation for "lovers of wisdom"
This is the principle that states the extent to which human beings are able to express the things of God
Bonus: Who states this principle?
The human language is not able to fully explain in any way the things of God; God transcends all manners of speaking
Bonus: Augustine
The era of the Apostles is known as this
Bonus: this is the era right after
The Apostolic Era
Bonus: Subapostolic
The ‘three concentric circles of influence (that) circumscribed the world in which early Christianity began
What are Roman, Jewish, and Greek
Theology of the early church that tries to connect the dots of scriptural data so that we have a more complete picture of God
What is Patristic Theology?
Origen identifies several doctrinal topics about which certain things are clearly known but other things are not. Name one of each (clearly known and not known)
The Jewish world (out of which Jesus and the early church grew) felt the influence of this, and by the first century, an overlay of this rule
What is Hellenistic ‘Greek’ Culture and Roman Rule
The official language of government and eventually the common language (lingua franca) in the western provinces
What is Latin
The three contexts Rome provided for early Christianity
What are the larger governmental, military, and legal contexts
This greek word means "a thing that really exists" or Latin translation "substance"
What is Hypostasis
For 200 years, the Latin theologians described Trinitarian theology as this
1 “substance” and 3 “persons”
This person says this to his opponents about the production or generation of the Son by the Father:
We cannot speak on these things with authority as we do not have the capacity to describe the indescribable
Who is Irenaeus
This is known as the "bible of the early church"
What are the Hebrew Scriptures
From the 2nd century on, Christianity used this as the standard language in Rome and in the Western provinces through the middle of the 3rd century
What is Greek
Scholars say that this means every historical moment is so different from another historical moment that no person can understand what a person in a different historical moment meant.
What is strict Historical Relativism
Greek theologians express Trinitarian theology as this
1 Ousia and 3 Hypostasis (1 “essence” and 3 “substances”
‘Greek philosophy provided’ this ‘with which Christian thinkers worked’
What is the vocabulary, ethical assumptions, thought world, intellectual options
The ‘immediate religious context for Christianity was’ this
What is Judaism
High end religious thinking in the Greek and Roman worlds took place as and in this
What is philosphy