The Gospel
True or False: According to From Christendom to Apostolic Mission, Christianity is an encounter with Christ that alters everything.
True
This is a story that conveys truths--especially about God/gods and human beings--without being factually true necessarily.
Myth
This is a family bond between two parties, with conditions or obligations, established by an oath.
Covenant
This prophet prophesied that the suffering servant of God would become a covenant.
Isaiah
The symbolic interpretation of the creation narrative that Bergsma gives is that creation serves as this.
Temple
Creation is a place for worship
This is the meaning of the Greek word euangelion.
Good news
This is the Latin phrase for the Christian doctrine of creation that states that God creates the cosmos from no preexisting material.
Creation ex nihilo (out of nothing)
These are the 5 roles of Adam that serve as a model for all of humanity.
1. Divine filiation
2. Priest
3. King
4. Prophet
5. Bridegroom
These are the 3 categories that show David's greatness in the history of Israel.
1. Political - unified tribes, Jerusalem capital
2. Liturgical - introduced singing, Ark in city
3. Eschatological - type of Christ
What are the 3 original experiences of humanity according to John Paul II.
Solitude - set apart from the rest of creation
Unity - made for relationship
Nakedness - must receive creation properly
This is the context in which kerygma initially used before it was used to mean the proclamation of the Gospel.
Royal announcement, especially after a military victory.
What designation indicates that human beings are stewards of creation, have rationality and freedom, and are the receivers of the gift of creation.
Made in the image and likeness of God
This is the name of God as revealed by God to Moses at the burning bush.
I AM WHO I AM (YHWH)
When is the prophecy of Ezekiel that mentions the pouring out of God's spirit into the hearts of God's people fulfilled?
Pentecost
The doctrine of creation illustrates two fundamental truths about God's relation to creation. What are they?
1. Source/cause of all existence
2. Sustains all in existence
This principal of scriptural interpretation includes the literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses of Scripture.
Plurality of meanings
Other principals are:
Dual authorship
Unity of Scripture
Christocentrism
Scripture interpreted within Tradition
Analogy of Faith
Thomas Aquinas's first 3 arguments for the existence of God are from motion, efficient cause, and possibility/necessity. These arguments that creation is contingent and God is this.
Necessary
What takes place during the covenant-making ceremony between God and Israel, as mediated by Moses at the foot of Mount Sinai in Exodus?
Sacrifice: blood put on altar and people
Sacred meal
Which of the Adamic roles is indicated by Jesus's having a tunic "without seam" at the Crucifixion?
Priest
According to Bergsma, what is the "high point of the entire Old Testament?" (Give what happens, and the Scripture reference)
Completion and dedication of the Temple
1 Kings 8
List the 5 simplified steps of the Gospel in order.
2. Rebellion
3. Reconciliation
4. Recreation
5. Response
What is the Hebrew phrase that indicates in the beginning the earth was "formless and void"
Tohu wabohu
What is the name of Abraham's son whose mother is Hagar, and not Abraham's wife Sarah.
Ishmael
This is the reason the Temple in Jerusalem is a representation of the Abrahamic Covenant.
The Temple is on Mount Moriah (where Abraham bound Isaac in Gen 22)
What is the name of the Persian King who frees Israel after conquering the Babylonians in 539 BC?
Cyrus