Personal Study
This type of personal study focuses on one book of the Bible at a time.
Book study
This is a set of critical or explanatory notes on a passage.
Commentary
Studying and understanding theology is critical in understanding who?
God/Jesus/Holy Spirit
Through continuing context, we can understand that Bible by the 4 major "plot movements". What are they?
Creation. The Fall. Redemption. New Creation.
These two types are similar in nature. One includes major and minor books, the other fiery type could be said to be a subset of the first type.
Prophetic, Apocalyptic
This "clean" method of study uses an acrostic to help you stay on track. Some of the steps (not in order) are Observation, Prayer, Application, and Scripture.
S.O.A.P.
This big book lists each time a word is used in the Bible. Strong's Exhaustive is the most widely used of these.
Concordance
This church leader's method to studying theology includes prayer, meditation, and testing.
Martin Luther
This "holistic" approach to study prompts us to study the verses and chapters surrounding your particular passage.
Literary flow
These are earthly stories with a heavenly/divine meaning.
Parables
This type of study utilizes a search on a specific topic that is read and studied using many different verses.
Topical Study
(or Deductive)
This is the fancy term for a Bible being translated with a word-for-word meaning.
Formal Equivalence
There are how many tiers in the hierarchy of studying and worrying about theology?
4
What are the three forms of context?
Literary form, literary flow, and continuing context
Prophets are used as “______” and “_____”, telling people how God wants them to live.
Foretellers and forthtellers
This new journal based study includes you copying the Bible in your own handwriting on one side, and taking notes on the other side.
Journible
This is the fancy term for a Bible being translated with a meaning-for-meaning translation.
Dynamic Equivalence
Being able to separate what is plainly _______ and what is simply _____ can help unite us in faith instead of dividing us into denominational rifts.
Plainly theology and what is simply opinion
What are the three basic literary forms we studied in the context section?
Discoursive, narrative, poetic.
While prophecy originated in spoken word, apocalyptic originated in what?
Writings
Can you name the different methods of study we talked about? There are 11 total, but you need to name 3 for the points.
Book Study, Chapter and Verse, Topical, People, S.O.A.P., Hand, Deductive, W.O.R.D., 5 R’s, Inductive, Journible
This important tool combines many of the Bible study tools into one neat package, with study notes at the bottom, concordance in the back, dictionary, maps, and even scripture included inside.
Study Bible
Can you name the 4 tiers in the hierarchy of studying and worrying about theology?
▸Knowledge that is firmly displayed in texts, without any possibility of alternative meaning.
▸Texts that are obviously based on plainly-stated truths.
▸Texts whose interpretations can be implied from other truths in scripture.
▸Texts whose meanings are unclear, for one reason or another.
Continuing Context can also be viewed in light of God's whats? He gave these to Adam, Noah, Abraham, and gave a new one with Jesus.
Covenants
Walter Kaiser Jr. said that this type of literature is simply “terse, brief” sayings that “have a little ‘kick’ to them, and a little bit of salt as well.”
Proverbs