Most understandings of the task of theology imply that faith and inquiry are inseparable. - ANS
Truth
Theology arises from the freedom and responsibility of the Christian community to inquire about
its faith in God. - ANS Truth
Theology is a statement of the fullness of the truth of God made known in Jesus Christ. - ANS
False
Theology is not mere repetition of traditional doctrines but a persistent search for the truth to
which they point and which they only partially and brokenly express. - ANS Truth
As a continuing inquiry, the spirit of theology is interrogative (i.e. questioning, inquiring) rather
than doctrine (i.e. certain, fixed, absolute). - ANS Truth
Theology questions but does not allow itself to be questioned (because nothing can question
the Word of God). - ANS False
If Christian faith is basically trust in and obedience to the freely gracious God made known in
Jesus Christ, theology is faith asking questions and struggling to find at least provisional
answers to these questions. - ANS True
Christian faith is a sedative for world-weary souls. - ANS False
Faith has nothing in common with indifference to the search for truth, or fear of it, or the arrogant
claim to possess it fully. - ANS True
Those who say theology is a questionable discipline are partly right, but ultimately wrong. - ANS
True
Correlation Method - ANS Paul Tillich and Christ and Culture
Praxis Approach - ANS Liberation Theology and Theology "from below" or Practical Theology
Christocentric Theology - ANS Karl Barth and Theology of Word of God
Are the doctrines, creeds and confessions of the church true to the revelation of God in Jesus
Christ as attested in Scripture? - ANS False
, Do the proclamation and practice of the community of faith give adequate expression to the
whole truth of the revelation of God in nature, Scripture, tradition and experience? - ANS False
Do the proclamation and practice of the community of faith represent the God of Jesus Christ as
a living reality in the present context? - ANS True
Does the proclamation of the community of faith lead to transforming praxis in personal and
social life? - ANS True
This question concerns the task of theology. Which one of the following options best captures
Migliore's own understanding of the task of theology?
a) the task of Christian theology is to provide a clear and comprehensive description of the
Christian faith
b) the task of Christian theology is to translate the Christian faith into terms that are intelligible to
the wider culture
c) the task of Christian theology is to first prove from the Bible, and then set out or organize, the
doctrines of the Christian church into a systematic whole
d) the task of Christian theology is to think about important issues from the perspective of
Christian faith
e) the task of Christian theology is reflection on the praxis of Christian faith within an oppressed
community
f) all of the above
g) numbers #a, b, c,e
h) numbers #a, c, d, e
i) none of the above - ANS i) none of the above
According to Migliore, which one of the following best translates and interprets the classical
definition of theology - fides quaerens intellectum:
a) faith questioning reason
b) faith questioning for intellectual grounding
c) faith venturing to inquire, daring to raise questions
d) faith seeking reasons for belief
e) reason seeking faith - ANS c) faith venturing to inquire, daring to raise questions
According to Migliore, there are two roots of theology - they are? (Only one is correct):
a) Object of Christian faith (God), and the situation of faith (context).
b) Faith and reason
c) Faith and situation
d) Mystery and Experience
e) The OT and NT.
f) The Subject and Object of Christian Faith, which is the teleological and ontological dimension
of the ground of faith, that is the Being of God. - ANS a) Object of Christian faith (God), and the
situation of faith (context).
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