Show:
Hill's Thrills
Like Pel.I.Can.
Theo Logs
History or Mystery?
Culture Wars
100
The theologian known as the "Angelic Doctor"
Who is Thomas Aquinas
100
The famous icon on the cover of the the Pelikan book
What is Christ Pantokrater
100
The heresy arising in the fourth century, which was the first main threat to the church, that denied the Son was fully divine.
What is Arianism
100
The council that established the doctrine of the Trinity in the year 325 A.D.
What is the Council of Nicaea
100
The early Christian confession that Iwan Russell-Jones has used to tie together everything we've been studying in this course.
What is "Jesus is Lord"
200
One of the four main contributions Hill says that St. Augustine made to Christian theology
What is: The church and the bible OR The Trinity OR Grace OR Sin OR
200
The famous monk Pelikan describes in a chapter entitled "The Divine and Human Model" who emphasized imitating Jesus' lifestyle of simplicity and poverty.
Who is Francis of Assisi
200
What Aquinas identifies as a natural human desire that legitimates the discipline of philosophy.
What is the desire to know
200
The author who defends the legitimacy of Constantine's conversion in a chapter called "By This Sign."
Who is Peter Leithart
200
The author of the chapter entitled "the reasonableness of faith," who suggests that the charge of Christian "anti-intellectualism" is nothing new, having begun in the earliest part of Christianity's existence.
Who is Robert Louis Wilken
300
The names of the three fourth century theologians known as the Cappadocian Fathers
Who were: Basil of Caserea Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa
300
The doctrine that both the iconoclasts and their opponents assumed for validating their positions that images of God could or could not be depicted.
What is the (doctrine of the) Incarnation
300
In his chapter from Heavenly Participation, Hans Boersma argues that the early Christians were careful to distinguish between these two philosophic schools of thought, judiciously engaging the one, while completely rejecting the other.
What are (Neo-)Platonism and Gnositicsm
300
What Craig Allert claims that the Church Fathers used, more so than quoting scriptures (i.e. the Canon), to defend the faith against heretics.
What is the Rule of Faith
300
What Craig Gay identifies as "the temptation to live as if God doesn't exist," which is written into the structures and institutions of our (post)modern society, including the church.
What is Practical Atheism
400
The way of doing theology, more prevalent in the Eastern Church in thinkers such as Pseudo-Dionysius and Gregory of Nyssa, emphasizing the "unknowability" of God.
What is the Via Negativa (or apophatic theology)
400
The name of the chapter in which Pelikan discusses Christ as the "Logos," or "organizing principle" of the cosmos, the reason and structure that makes sense of everything.
What is "The Cosmic Christ"
400
The Greek word meaning "of the same substance," which was chosen to identify the orthodox position of the relationship between God the Son and God the Father.
What is homoousias
400
Two of the three reasons Rodney Stark says led to the rise of Christianity.
What are: Taking care of the sick during epidemics Higher status given to women in the churches Theology the required care for humanity
400
The phrase Bruce Hindmarsh uses to define asceticism.
What is "giving up something good for something better"
500
The famous phrase of Tertullian describing the relationship between faith and reason
What is "What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem"
500
In a chapter called "Light to the Gentiles," one of the three classical Greek literary figures which early Christians found to be prefiguring Christ.
Who is: Homer (Odyssey) OR Vergil (Fourth Eclogue) OR Plato (Timaeus)
500
Fill in the blank: In Alexander Schmemann's chapter in For the Life of the World, Eastern Orthodoxy's sacraments are not concerned with "validity," as much as "fullness" because their view of sin is not about guilt/forgiveness as much as it is about ______.
What is Death/Life
500
The "thesis," usually associated with Adolf von Harnack, that describes what happened when Christianity moved from its Hebrew origins into the Greek world.
What is the Hellenization Thesis
500
Fill in the blank: Jeff Greenman's lecture highlighted the juxtaposition of _____vs._____as one of the main cultural assumptions of the modern/postmodern era that creates a division between faith and politics
What is: Public vs. Private OR Sacred vs. Secular