NBST 515 Final Exam

Preterist - Someone who believes all or almost all of Revelation is about events in the first century A.D. (early church), for original audience Historicist - Revelation shows the sequence of church history in chronological order (ancient times to modern) Futurist - All of Revelation's events have yet to happen Idealist - Shows ongoing struggle between good/evil, no real historical reference Premillennialism - Christ returns after the judgment in Revelation, but before a literal 1,000 year reign on earth Postmillennialism - Christ returns after a literal/figurative 1,000-year reign of the church age, generally where good progress is made Amillennialism - figurative reign of 1,000 years began at the ascension, after which Christ will return Marcion - anti-Jewish bias, wanted to remove OT from Canon Montanists - claimed to receive new revelations Gnostics - spread dualistic, anti-material beliefs Prophecy in Revelation - a proclamation, not a prediction Apocalypse - Tells a story of a being from the other world describing heaven to a human being. A collision of the heavenly picture of things to come Letters to the seven churches - 7 declarations, 5 rebuking, 2 positive to churches. Creates a framework for the rest of the book. Expitiation - Atonement affects us directly (sin is expunged or expiated from us) Divine Passibility - The belief that our sin impacts God's emotions Propitiation - Atonement appeases God's wrath and anger about our sin Divine Impassibility - The belief that our sin does not impact God emotionally. Hebrews - This book warns of apostasy in the audiences' communities 5 times Hebrews - A theme in this book is that "Jesus is better" than Angels, Moses, Melchizadek Hebrews - Author uses prosopological exegesis in this book Hebrews - This book says Jesus is the permanent atonement for sin Hebrews - This book emphasizes the importance of the New Covenant, compared to the Old one James - This book is best read as wisdom/sage literature. James - This book uses enthymeme (makes an argument without stating the premise) multiple times