Wesleyan Disciple Formation Final Exam 2023 with complete solution
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According to Wesleyan wisdom: If we preach doctrine only people will become ________; if we preach experience only, they will become ________; and if we preach practice only, they will become _________.
Antinomians; Enthusiasts;...
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According to Wesleyan wisdom: If we preach doctrine only people will become
________; if we preach experience only, they will become ________; and if we
preach practice only, they will become _________.
Antinomians; Enthusiasts; Pharisees
________ is the mere mental assent to a doctrine as being true.
Fides
________ is a sure abiding trust in the salvific reality contained in the doctrinal
affirmation.
Fiducia
The Wesleyan maxim to "urge practice" is rooted in the notion that Christian
practices should flow from deeply habituated _______.
Dispositions
In the Christian faith, salvation implies a special kind of freedom, which one
receives as a ________ from God.
Gift
Prior to the Enlightenment, persons were understood to be free if they were able
to live as they were ________________________.
Created to be by God's design
In the modern and now post-modern era, freedom is comprehensively connected
to notions of an _____________.
Independent self
Modern Enlightenment-informed thought assumes that _______ is grounded in
the autonomous independent self.
Morality
Although many early Enlightenment figures were devout Christians, the proposed
path of an independent self, led first to deism, then to _________, and most
recently to a popular revival of _________.
Agnosticism, atheism
If any one single thing may be said to be symbolic of individual freedom in late
modernity, it would be the culture of ___________.
Consumerism
The distinguishing feature of the North American 'middle class' is its obsession
with _______ and ________.
work, money
Surveys in the late 20th and early 21 century indicate that the most common
reason 1st year college students give for their chosen field of study is:
_____________.
It pays well
In North America, we are free to choose almost anything, except whether to be a
_________.
Consumer
,When asked how religion influences their work lives, or thoughts about money,
most Americans live and act as if ____________.
The two are separate
John Stackhouse has said that a vibrant religious commitment is a threat to
consumerism because it helps people to understand that
_____________________.
There is more to life than buying and selling.
Consumerism focuses people's attentino NOT on the blessings and abundance in
their lives but on all that we ___________.
Do not possess
The consumerist system and culture is set up to create ___________________.
Permanent discontent
Because the market seeks to motivate us as individuals to choose the products it
offers, it makes it increasingly difficult to think in terms of ____________ and the
_____________.
Community, common good
Radical postmodern "ultracritics" assert that truth is a ___________ ___________.
Social construction
Embracing the therapeutic culture of modern psychology, many evangelicals
have replaced the language of guilt and ___________ with comprehensively non-
judgmental ___________ language.
Accountability, self-help
According to Mulholland __________ formation is "the process of being
conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others."
spiritual
Mulholland refers to Ephesians 1, saying that each of us has been "called forth."
As such, we may by grace become ______ of God.
Words
According to Mulholland, ___________ and ____________ are essential in
breaking off the "crust of self."
Spiritual disciplines, nurturing growth
Our consumeristic culture makes it almost impossible to be __________.
Altruistic
Genuine spiritual formation is inseparable from our relationship with God and
___________.
Other persons
Spiritual formation is a slow process that contradicts the desire prevalent in our
culture for _________ gratification.
Instant
Mulholland believes that Christians are a ______ of God "spoken forth" into the
world.
Word
The informational approach to Scripture seeks to __________ and __________ the
text.
Master, control
, When Scripture is viewed as iconographic, it becomes a __________ into the
reality of life shaped by the Word.
Window
George McDonald, the Scottish poet, used the phrase, "_________ ____
__________" to describe the daily practice of overcoming our habits, structures,
attitudes, and perceptions.
Breaking the crust
The _______ _________ theory of scriptural authorship holds that God's
inspiration, in the form of the Holy Spirit, is exerted on the authors of biblical
texts such that their words are God's words and, therefore, infallible.
Verbal dictation
According to present-day popular American thought, to be an evangelical is
essentially the same thing as being a __________.
Fundamentalist
You cannot with theological consistency be simultaneously a ________ and a
Fundamentalist.
Wesleyan
The fundamentalist aim to uphold biblical infallibility stems from a desire to
safeguard _________.
Truth
Faith formation is "our participation in God's work of inviting persons to
relationship to ________, ______, __________, and ___________" (Matthaei, 20).
God, self, others, creation
John Wesley spoke of the necessity for both internal and outward holiness, what
he called "holiness of _______ and ________."
heart, life
Arminius' primary theological opponent in Leiden was ______________.
Franciscus Gomarus
___________ is the result of the Holy Spirit's perfecting grace available to those
seeking to love God with their whole heart and their neighbor as themselves.
Sanctification
Wesley's maxim for sanctified stewardship is quite simple: ___________ all you
can; ___________ all you can; and _____________ all you can.
Earn, save, give
Secularity does not in and of itself prevent spirituality, rather it encourages a self-
serving version of the sacred, a _______________.
domesticated deity
Mainline American Churches often tend to equate the two or fail to see a
significant difference between cultivating __________ and cultivating
_______________.
good citizens, Christians
John Wesley facilitated a series of small, intimate accountability groups called
______ __________, which helped new disciples of the Christian faith to learn
what it meant to live a moral life focused on God's love.
Band meetings
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