Questions & Answers

  Please respond to each of the following questions and issues from your reading of Hart's book. (Hart Larry D. Truth Aflame: Theology for the Church in Renewal, Rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005) Please respond to each of the following questions and issues from your reading of Erickson's book. (Erickson, Millard J. Christian Theology, 3d ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2013) Please respond to each of the following questions and issues from your reading of Hart's book. (Hart Larry D. Truth Aflame: Theology for the Church in Renewal, Rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005) 1. What is the immanence of God? 2. What is the transcendence of God? 3. What does the name signify in ancient Near Eastern cultures and Biblical revelation? 4. List and briefly describe the seven properties of God's holiness. 5. List and briefly describe the seven properties of God's love. 6. "The Triune God is one God who exists eternally as three infinite, eternal, interpenetrating Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." Explicate this statement in relation to the major heresies related to it. 7. Describe the perichoretic nature of the Trinity. 8. Choose any three theistic arguments, and provide a brief analysis of their dynamic and usefulness. 9. Discuss briefly the importance of the doctrine of creation. 10. Define "creation." 11. What is meant by a literary approach to Genesis in relation to the Biblical doctrine of creation? 12. Discuss the implications of the doctrine of creation. 13. List and briefly describe the seven theories that correlate what the Bible says with modern science. 14. Which of the above theories do you espouse, and why? 15. Discuss Cottrell's three rubrics concerning God's will. 16. Discuss the significance of signs and wonders. 17. Is there a kernel of truth in what Darwin, Marx, Freud, and existentialists have said about who we are? In what way might that be possible? 18. Expound briefly the Biblical perspective on humankind. 19. Provide a theological summary of the image of God in humankind. 20. Evaluate Hart's treatment of "spirit, soul, and body." Please respond to each of the following questions and issues from your reading of Erickson's book. (Erickson, Millard J. Christian Theology, 3d ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2013) 1. List and briefly describe the five attributes of God's greatness. 2. What is meant by the "holiness of God"? 3. What is the best mode of investigating God's attributes, according to Erickson, and why? 4. What distortions occur when either God's immanence or God's transcendence is overemphasized? 5. Discuss the essential elements of a doctrine of the Trinity. 6. Discuss the search for analogies in relation to the Trinity. 7. What does Erickson mean by "the plan of God"? 8. What does Erickson mean by "a moderately Calvinistic model"? 9. How does Erickson define "creation"? 10. Which creation theory does Erickson prefer, and why? 11. What are the two major aspects of providence? Describe them. 12. List and evaluate the three types of solutions to the problem of evil that are most often suggested. 13. Evaluate Erickson's response to the problem of evil. 14. What is the role of the doctrine of angels, according to Erickson? 15. Why is the doctrine of humanity important? 16. Discuss briefly Erickson's nine conclusions concerning the meaning of human creation. 17. Discuss the substantive, relational, and functional views of the image of God, as Erickson presents them. 18. What does Erickson mean by "conditional unity" in relation to the constitutional nature of the human? What is your personal evaluation of his approach? 19. Discuss what Erickson means by the "universality of humanity."