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Christianity based on circular reasoning.
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The Old Testament contains some things that are “incomplete” and “temporary.”
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In the Christian faith, knowledge and life, truth and existence are intrinsically connected.
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In theology, critical thinking is necessary for scientific research, as such faith is a hinderance to that research.
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Select all that apply:
In advancing theological proposals, theologians need to
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a) submit to the authority of magisterium.
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b) be free to research and dialogue
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c) be patient in advancing theories
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d) be exercised with the Church’s faith
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f) none of the above
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Documents issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) expressly approved by the Pope participate in the ordinary magisterium of the successor of Peter.
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A mandatum is a fundamental acknowledgment by church authority that a theologian is teaching within the full communion of the Catholic Church.
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Bishops’ magisterial documents are always free from all deficiencies when addressing issues of faith and morals.
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How should a theologian handle a situation in which s/he disagrees with the Church’s teaching on something?
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Embrace the faith against his will.
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Humbly conform himself to Christ rather than the present world.
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Unless the Magisterial teaching is infallible, s/he is free to disagree.
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Apply a correct understanding regarding the "supernatural sense of the faith".
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Properly form his/her conscience.
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The TaNaK is comprised of the following (choose all that apply)
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The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Greek text of the TaNak.
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The Septuagint (LXX) is the Greek version of the Old Testament.
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The Deuterocanonical Books were not in “the Jewish Bible” of Jesus’ day.
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The canon of scripture was closed during the Council of Rome by Pope St. Damasus I.
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In composing the Septuagint, King Ptolemy gathered together seventy elders to translate the Jewish scriptures. The elders were separated and after they translated the scriptures, were brought together and their texts were compared. What was the result of this comparison
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A good portion of the writings were similar
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The translations had some errors in the names, but overall the texts agreed.
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The translations had rendered the same words and names from beginning to end.
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Only those parts of the scriptures that are necessary to salvation are inspired.
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The Incarnational view of scripture asserts that since Christ was Fully Divine and Fully human (with human weakness but without sin), the same applies to the scriptures in that they have a Divine and Human authorship (with human weakness but without error.)
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Which of the following is true:
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“Hermeneutic”: pertaining to interpretation (of Scripture)
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“Hermeneutical”: general theory of interpretation
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“Biblical Hermeneutics”: pertaining to the interpretation of biblical texts
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The New Testament is concealed in the Old; the Old Testament is revealed in the New.
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[blank_start]Judaizers[blank_end] (1st Century): Christians must embrace the entirety of OT Laws.
[blank_start]Gnosticism[blank_end] (2nd Century): God of Old Testament is different than God of the New Testament
[blank_start]Marcionism[blank_end] (A.D. 85–160): Affirmed Gnostic dualism, rejected the OT, accepted portions of Luke, and Epistles of Paul
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Judaizers
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Gnosticism
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Marcionism
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Gnosticism
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Marcionism
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Judaizers
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Marcionism
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Gnosticism
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Judaizers
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In responding to the Judaizers, St. Paul responds by appealing to the fact that [blank_start]Abraham[blank_end] was justified apart from Circumcision.
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The Early Church Fathers describe the divine accommodation as a father caring for his own children and adopting their ways and using their language.
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In his conversations with Jewish interlocutors on the subject of sacrificial laws, Justin Martyr draws upon Jesus’ teaching on divorce and remarriage by stating the laws were given because of the hardness of the heart.
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Justin Martyr draws upon the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel to show that certain laws were added because of their sinfulness.
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Recapitulation means that the life of Christ sums up all of salvation history.
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Typology refers to the study of the covenants.
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Which of the following is true?
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Alexandrian School accentuated the allegorical view of scripture.
Antioch School accentuated the literal historical view of scripture.
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Alexandrian School accentuated the literal historical view of scripture.
Antioch School accentuated the allegorical view of scripture.
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John Chrysostom is associated with the [blank_start]Antiochene[blank_end] School.
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Origen and Titus Flavius Clement are both associated to the School of Antioch.
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The concept that scripture contains a three-fold sense was developed and pioneered by
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Clement of Alexandria
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John Chrysostom
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Origen
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Augustine
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Aquinas
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Cyril of Alexandria sees temple imagery in Isaiah's references of the tower and wine vat.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Targum agree with John Chrysostom's argument that Isaiah 5 does not refer to the temple.
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Who makes the claim that: "The spiritual truth was often preserved, as one might say, in the material falsehood."
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Origen
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Chrysostom
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Augustine
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Cyril of Alexandria
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Origen argues that in the case of the literal sense of the scripture, the writers may not have intended to provide literal history.
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Chrysostom emphasizes the historical realities.
Origen emphasizes allegory and mystical interpretation.
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Origen emphasizes the historical realities.
Chrysostom emphasizes allegory and mystical interpretation.
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Who is referred as a Biblical Theologian?
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Chrysostom
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Origen
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Augustine
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Aquinas
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Augustine synthesized the schools of Alexandria and Antioch by proposing that scriptures have both literal and spiritual meaning.
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For St. Thomas Aquinas, the literal sense of scripture is the foundation for the spiritual senses.
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Who proposes that there are multiple literal senses?
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Augustine
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Origen
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Chrysostom
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Cyril of Alexandria
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Aquinas
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[blank_start]Historical[blank_end] sense: the temple building
[blank_start]Allegorical[blank_end]: Christ is the true temple (John 2:19–22)
[blank_start]Moral / Tropological[blank_end]: believers are temples (1 Cor 6:19)
[blank_start]Anagogical[blank_end]: the heavenly temple (Heb 8:5)
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Allegorical
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Moral / Tropological
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Anagogical
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Allegorical
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Moral / Tropological
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Anagogical
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Tropological
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Anagogical
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Allegorical
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Anagogical
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Moral / Tropological
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Allegorical
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Which translation of Dei Verbum 11 does that Catechism of the Catholic Church use?
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Which translation of Dei Verbum 11 asserts that only what is necessary for salvation is without error?
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What does textual criticism refer to?
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The external and internal evidence of a given text.
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The external evidence of a given text.
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The internal evidence of a given text.
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Which of the following does NOT relate to Internal Evidence?
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Geographical distribution of witnesses
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The more difficult reading is to be preferred
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Considerations of style, vocabulary, usage of an author/source.
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Application of accepted theories of origin and transmission of NT books.
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The shorter reading is to be preferred
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The Latin Vulgate has been found to be "free from error" in regards to faith and morals.
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The Johannine Comma refers to text in 1 John 5:7-9 that is not found within the Vulgate but is found in the original text and was quoted by the Church fathers.
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"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
Central issue in the Johannine Comma is that the added words are not in the original manuscripts except 8 in Latin.
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With respect to the "Woman Caught in Adultery", which of the following point to issues with that story.
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Not present in the earliest manuscripts
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A few manuscripts have it in Luke!
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Brief style feels more like Synoptics
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Non-Johannine vocabulary
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Which of the following are true about the Pontifical Biblical Commission
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It presently functions as a teaching office
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Guard against false interpretation
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Promote scientific study of the bible
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Determines what ought to be inviolably maintained by Catholics
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[blank_start]Diachronic[blank_end] method looks at the text through the lens of time (Looks at text in historical point of view) .
[blank_start]Synchronic[blank_end] method looks at the text in the present time = (contemporary reading).
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Diachronic
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Synchronic
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Synchronic
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Diachronic
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Canonical Criticism and Narrative Criticism fall under the Synchronic approach of biblical interpretation.
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Historical-Critical method uses source, form, and redaction as tools for interpretation.