Christianity T1 -religious figures & sacred texts (E&F)

What is the key term used for a proclamation or declaration of an event.

• Kerygma

• Salvation

• Good news

• Jewish apocalypticism

What is kerygma NOT?

• Preaching

• Declaring

• Heralding

• Teaching

How was the first enlightenment thinker to accuse the Jewish apocalyptic viewpoint of Jesus’ time?

• Dodd

• Reimarus

• Bultmann

• Wright

Dodd uses the speeches in Acts to distinguish the kerygma

• True

• False

What is the key term that Dodd used that means moral teaching?

• Didache

• Kerygma

• Salvation

• Preaching

Belief in the sudden and cataclysmic coming of God to rule the world in justice is known as...

• Realised eschatology

• Judgement day

• Jewish apocolypticism

• Kerygma

Dodd identified 6 main elements of the kerygma in Acts 2 and 3. Which one is NOT one of these?

• Jesus has ascended

• Christ will soon return

• Everyone should repent

• Jesus is a social healer

Which comment DOES NOT challenge the kerygmata in the book of Acts?

• The amount and kind of detail conveyed in the narrative would be difficult to make up.

• Acts is a highly organised work - has it been redacted to make it more coherent?

• The miraculous events are not compatible with a modern, scientific age.

• Acts is likely written in the 80s CE, up to 40-50 years after the events reported - did they get Jesus right?

Who argues against the impact of Jewish apocalypticism by stating that Jesus believed not only in the coming of God at the end of the world but that God had already broken into the world through his own life.

• Reimarus

• Luke

• Dodd

• Bultmann

What did Dodd and Bultmann agree on?

• That the kerygma was an announcement not a doctrine

• That the kerygma was a doctrine not an announcement

• The the kerygma was neither an announcement or a doctrine