The lens through which one reads any text, including scripture, is called a _____________________. -
Answer-Hermeneutic
Given the West's move into postmodernity, we listed in class three responses to this
situation (as listed by sociologist Clifford Geertz). They are _________________,
________...
CHRS 125 Exam No 4 The lens through which one reads any text, including scripture, is called a _____________________. - Answer -Hermeneutic Given the West's move into postmodernity, we listed in class three responses to this situation (as listed by sociologist Clifford Geertz). They are _________________, ____________________, and ____________________. - Answer -Pluralism, Parochialism, Particularism Christians engage in a variety of communal activities that form (and reform) who we are, and assume beliefs about God and reality. These are called ________________. - Answer -Worship Services or couterpractices List 8 essential, weekly, common elements of Christian worship? - Answer -• music • prayer • reading scripture • sermon • collection of tithes/offerings • liturgy • baptism • Lord's Supper/Communion/Eucharist The practice in which Christians eat bread and wine/grape juice in order to commemorate, remember, and/or partake in Jesus' death is known by three common names, depending on one's denomination. These are: ___________________, _________________, and ______ ______________. - Answer -Lord's Supper/Communion/Eucharist The season of ___________ includes the four Sundays before Christmas, and prepares for Jesus' birth. - Answer -Advent ___________ , celebrated on January 6, means manifestation and its feast recognizes the wise men visiting the Christ child. - Answer -Epiphany ___________ begins the season of lent. - Answer -Ash Wednesday ___________ begins Holy week and commemorates the day that Christ rides into Jerusalem on a donkey to proclaim that he is the messiah. - Answer -Palm Sunday ___________ commemorates the day in Acts 2 when the disciples received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. - Answer -Pentecost Theology, most simply, is defined as the study of _____. - Answer -God Theologology is defined as ______________________. - Answer -"Talking about talking about god" _______________ are beliefs so central and so deep -rooted that to change them would change one's identity. - Answer -Convictions The word "creed" is from credo, which means, _____________ . - Answer -"I believe" One of the earliest of the Christian creeds was _______ ______ __________. - Answer -"Jesus is lord" The earliest ecumenical creed of the church is the ________ ___________, written in 325. - Answer -Nicene Creed True or false? The creeds were used to teach and instruct new Christians. - Answer -True Christians affirm God as One, Maker of heaven and earth —the term commonly used for
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