Final Exam Review for Introduction to Theological Method Class

FINAL EXAM REVIEW FOR INTRODUCTION TO THEOLOGICAL METHOD CLASS:

A. Know the following major theological terms and their central ideas and importance to knowing and doing theology. Some of the terms you see in the review might be repetitive. The following review comes from your reading of Chafer’s Systematic Theology (volume 1):

1. Prolegomena (pg. 4)

2. Revealed Theology (pg. 16)

3. Pneumatology (pg. 16)

4. Natural Theology (pg. 4)

5. Ecclesiology (xiii)

6. The Mosaic Covenant (xiii; pg. 43)

7. Historical Theology (pg. 5)

8. What is the function of Systematic Theology? (viii)

9. What is Systematic Theology? (pg. 6)

10. Dual authorship of the Scriptures involves what? (pg. 72)

11. What are the general facts of human learning vs. spiritual truths (pg. 9)

12. What is the importance of spiritual illumination? (pg. 7)

13. What role does revelation and reason play in Systematic Theology? (pg. 63)

14. Why has Systematic Theology fallen upon evil days? (pg. 5)

15. What does a Biblicist believe? (pg. 7)

16. What is relationship between revelation and the incarnation? (pg. 59)

17. What is progressive revelation? (pg. 60)

18. What does divine revelation embrace? (pg. 60)

19. What is the relationship between nature and revelation? (pg. 53)

20. Is preparation of study needed for one who seeks to study Systematic Theology (pg. 10)

21. Should Systematic Theology proceed on the basis of the belief that the Bible is God’s own Word to man? (pg. 21)

22. What are extra-biblical claims vs. intra-biblical claims? (pg. 23)

1 25. Understand what the continuity of the Scriptures, prophecy and its fulfillment, and type with their antitypes serve to do (pg. 31)

26. What is the message of the whole Bible and what is important to note about it? (pg. 36)

27. Understand the nature of the Bible (pg. 37)

28. What is a dispensation? (pg. 40)

29. What are the seven dispensations? (pp. 40-41)

30. What is the Edenic Covenant? (pg. 42)

31. What is the Noahic Covenant? (pg. 42)

32. What is the Abrahamic Covenant? (pg. 43)

33. What is the New Covenant? (pg. 43)

34. Systematic Theology draws it material from what sources? (pp. 48-53)

35. Divine revelation is disclosed through the following means? (pg. 53)

36. What is mechanical or dictation inspiration (pp. 68-71)

37. What is verbal, plenary inspiration?

38. What is “degrees of inspiration”?

39. What is concept or conceptual inspiration?

40. What is mystical inspiration?

41. What is natural inspiration?

42. What are ways that the authority of the Bible has been seen? (pp. 102-103)

43. Spiritual darkness involves what? (pg. 105)

44. What makes “interpretation” unique? (pg. 115)

44. Explain the term “animation” with reference to the Scripture (pg. 120)

45. The preservation of the Scriptures refers to what? (pg. 124)

46. What are the intra-biblical evidences for the complete and inerrant Word of God and why are they important to note? (pg. 76)

47. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 is an important proof for what? (pg. 80)

48. 2 Peter 1:21 is a central Scripture proof for what? (pg. 80)

49. Understand the major definitions to the following terms (pg. 4):

2 a. Systematic Theology

b. Dogmatic Theology

c. Practical Theology

d. Biblical Theology

e. Theology Proper

B. From your class lectures:

50. Be able to define dispensationalism and the term, “dispensation” (remember powerpoint lecture on dispensationalism).

51. Know the sine qua non of dispensationalism. Remember the sine qua non involves three major ideas:

a. Plain, normal, literal, grammatical, historical literary method of interpretation.

b. From this method of interpretation, a clear distinction between God’s program for Israel and the Church emerges.

c. God’s overall purpose is doxological.

52. Understand threefold justification for plain, normal, grammatical, historical, literal method of interpretation (see dispensational lecture powerpoint):

53. Know Shockley’s 6 steps of theological method (from lecture on How to Do Theology; see powerpoint lecture).

54. What is logic (see logic lecture notes from powerpoint)?

55. Why is logic important?

56. What is the basis for logic?

57. What is the two-fold justification of logic?

58. What is a logical fallacy?

59. What is the character attack ad hominem fallacy?

60. What is the Bandwagon Fallacy?

61. What is the genetic fallacy?

62. What is the straw-man fallacy?

63. Be able to give an internal case for the reliability of the Bible:

3 64. Know major Scripture references discussed in class and what they answer:

65. Be able to give a historical case for the reliability of the Bible (see chart I prepared for you. It is also located on website. It is titled, “Reliability of Scripture Handout.”

66. Be able to give a bibliographic manuscript case for the reliability of the Bible. See “Reliability of Scripture Handout.”

67. Be able to give a logical case for the reliability of Bible. See “Reliability of Scripture Handout.” It is found in the center of your handout.

68. Be able to give me the uniqueness case for the reliability of the Bible with

attention directed to the continuity argument (“Reliability of Scripture Handout).”

69. Understand Canonicity and be able to defend it.

70. Know the three major ways of handling Bible difficulties:

a. Abstract Approach:

b. Harmonistic Approach:

c. Moderate Harmonistic Approach.

71. What is inerrancy?

72. What is errancy?

73. What is formal equivalence approach (see powerpoint lecture on Bible translations)?

74. What is optimal approach (e.g., Holman) to Bible translation (see powerpoint lecture on Bible translations)?

75. What is dynamic/idiomatic approach to Bible translation (see powerpoint lecture on Bible translations)?

76. What is general revelation?

77. What is special revelation?

78. What is the Palestinian [Land] Covenant?

79. What is Textual Criticism? Answer: Textual criticism seeks to ascertain the very wording of the original. Like all literary documents of antiquity, biblical textual criticism is necessary because we do not possess the originals. Moreover, we have more than five thousand manuscript copies of the Greek New Testament with the existence of variants between these copies.

4 80. Know the chart, “Pursue a Balanced Theology.”

81. Know the following terms:

a. Christology

b. Hamartiology

c. Israelology

d. Angelology

e. Demonology

f. Satanology

g. Eschatology

h. Hermeneutics

i. What is religion?

j. Theology