study guide
QUIZ 1 STUDY GUIDE
Towns: Chapter I
• What does “prolegomena” mean?
• What are the 3 presuppositions of prolegomena?
• What is the contemporary usage of the word “theology?”
• What is catechism?
• What are 5 presuppositions for the task of theologizing?
• What are the tests used to verify theological truths? Explain.
• What is the aim of biblical theology?
• Where does biblical theology get its material?
• What does historical theology study?
• What does dogmatic theology study?
• What is philosophical theology?
• What is contemporary theology?
• What is systematic theology?
• What does practical theology seek to do?
• What is the theology of Scriptures called?
• What are the 6 uses for reason?
• What are the 4 tools for accurately arranging a systematic theology?
• What 4 questions must we ask about faith?
• What 5 factors can limit our theology?
Towns: Chapter II
• What is revelation?
• What is inspiration?
• What is inerrancy?
• What is the canon?
• What is hermeneutics?
• What is illumination?
• What is the primary motivation of revelation?
• What does Hebrews 1:1–2 teach about divine revelation?
• What are the 2 areas of revelation?
• What is reason?
• What does the cosmological argument state?
• Upon what 3 things is the cosmological argument dependent?
• What does the teleological argument state?
• What does the anthropological argument state?
• What does the anthropological argument reason?
• What does the ontological argument state?
• What does congruity mean?
• What does the existence of laws imply?
• Of what do laws in society give evidence?
Rivera: Introduction and Chapter 1
• Know how many chapters are in the Bible.
• Identify the metaphor the author uses to create a picture of the whole of Scripture.
• Be able to fill in these blanks: “I’d rather be the ________ person in heaven than the ________ person in hell.”
• Understand how the author describes love for God.
• Understand what the results of love
Towns: Chapter I
• What does “prolegomena” mean?
• What are the 3 presuppositions of prolegomena?
• What is the contemporary usage of the word “theology?”
• What is catechism?
• What are 5 presuppositions for the task of theologizing?
• What are the tests used to verify theological truths? Explain.
• What is the aim of biblical theology?
• Where does biblical theology get its material?
• What does historical theology study?
• What does dogmatic theology study?
• What is philosophical theology?
• What is contemporary theology?
• What is systematic theology?
• What does practical theology seek to do?
• What is the theology of Scriptures called?
• What are the 6 uses for reason?
• What are the 4 tools for accurately arranging a systematic theology?
• What 4 questions must we ask about faith?
• What 5 factors can limit our theology?
Towns: Chapter II
• What is revelation?
• What is inspiration?
• What is inerrancy?
• What is the canon?
• What is hermeneutics?
• What is illumination?
• What is the primary motivation of revelation?
• What does Hebrews 1:1–2 teach about divine revelation?
• What are the 2 areas of revelation?
• What is reason?
• What does the cosmological argument state?
• Upon what 3 things is the cosmological argument dependent?
• What does the teleological argument state?
• What does the anthropological argument state?
• What does the anthropological argument reason?
• What does the ontological argument state?
• What does congruity mean?
• What does the existence of laws imply?
• Of what do laws in society give evidence?
Rivera: Introduction and Chapter 1
• Know how many chapters are in the Bible.
• Identify the metaphor the author uses to create a picture of the whole of Scripture.
• Be able to fill in these blanks: “I’d rather be the ________ person in heaven than the ________ person in hell.”
• Understand how the author describes love for God.
• Understand what the results of love