Interim Assessment - AP Seminar Fall 2023

Match the following functional specialty to its description.

• interpretation

• attempts to understand the three worlds of theological texts

• dialectic

• providing data and material for other branches of theology to clarify, interpret, and integrate

• history

• focus on a specific area of theology to evaluate and reinterpret the tradition in a specific realm of interest

• doctrine

• studying different theological debates uncovered by history

• research

• development of Jewish and Christian communities, provides context for interpreting texts and artifacts produced by research

Bernard Lonergan describes ______ as a normative pattern of recurrent and related operations yielding cumulative and progressive results.

Match the following types of conversion to their description:

• affective conversion

• taking personal responsibility for one's actions and their consequences

• sociopolitical conversion

• taking responsibility for the truthfulness or falsity of one's beliefs by examining and testing them in light of perspectives and frames of reference other than one's own

• moral conversion

• taking personal responsibility for their emotional healing and development

• intellectual conversion

• signaling that one accepts responsibility to seek good for all human beings and to work strategically with others to challenge and convert the wider world

Label the diagram.

a

b

c

d

e

Rational Knowledge

Experience of Mystery

Conversion

Faith

Prerational Knowledge

The ultimate and most direct form of God's communication comes through the life, message, mission, and destiny of Jesus of Nazareth- the Word of God, the Word made flesh. This is known as the ______.

____ derives from the Latin word meaning "trust or confidence".

Which functional specialty (or question that a theologian asks) looks at how doctrines fit together and mutually inform one another?

• Systems

• Communications

• Foundations

• Interpretation

Which functional specialty (or question that a theologian asks) is concerned with the interpretation of religious texts?

• Systems

• Communications

• Foundations

• Interpretation

Which functional specialty (or question that a theologian asks) is focused on the basic principles of theology?

• Systems

• Communications

• Foundations

• Interpretation

What is the term for the study of the nature of God and religious belief?

• Eschatology

• Theology

• Exegesis

• Christology