The theory that God is somehow behind the writing of the Bible
What is inspiration?
100
The theological movement from the 1920s to 1960s in which scholars claimed that God revealed himself throughout history but that fallible humans recorded these acts imperfectly
What is neo-orthodoxy?
100
The most fundamental form of interpretation
What is translation?
100
To express a text's meaning through speaking or writing
What is interpretation?
200
Covenant or Agreement
What is the meaning of testament?
200
God wrote the Bible through humans
What is dual authorship?
200
The closed list of books that Christians view as uniquely authoritative and inspired
What is the canon?
200
Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic
What are the original languages of the Bible?
200
A tool used to study a Biblical word in its original language
What is a word study tool?
300
Law, History, Wisdom, Major and Minor Prophets
What are the 5 divisions of the Old Testament?
300
The Biblical authors exhibit a natural religious insight, not unlike other great philosophers
What is the Intuition Theory?
300
In 1947, an important collection of Jewish documents was discovered that contained many Old Testament books.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
300
The translation approach that is more concerned with word for word equivalency
What is formal equivalency?
300
The approach in which role of the reader is to discover the author's intended meaning
What is the author-determined approach?
400
Creation -> Fall -> Redemption
What is the basic storyline of the Bible?
400
God gave definite, specific impressions or concepts to the biblical authors but allowed the writers to communicate those concepts in their own words
What is the Dynamic Theory?
400
The first person to use the Greek word kanōn to refer to Christianity’s restricted list of inspired books
Who is Athanasius?
400
Middle English
What is the form of English that the original English Bible was written in?
400
Sub meanings of a text that legitimately fall within the principle willed by the author
What is implication?
500
To bring people to salvation
What is the purpose of the Bible?
500
While the authors of the Bible wrote as thinking, feeling human beings, God so mysteriously superintended the process that every word written was also the exact word he wanted to be written—free from all error.
What is the Verbal-Plenary Theory?
500
The first person to translate the entire Bible into English
Who is John Wycliffe?
500
Latin
What is the official language of the church for hundreds of years?
500
The method of interpretation from A.D. 100 – A.D. 500