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17. The books of _____________ form the transition from the era of the judges to that of the kings.
18. Through idolatry, the apostate tribe of ______________ not only abandoned its God-given
inheritance but forsook the Lord as well.
19. The book of _____________ shows how God providentially acted so that His people could return
to their land and rebuild their temple.
20. Through the birth of ____________ to Ruth and Boaz, Naomi’s prior emptiness and bitterness is
reversed.
21. Ahab and his wife Jezebel were wicked rulers in the Northern Kingdom.
22. ______________ was not a Judge in Israel.
23. Nehemiah’s covenant enforcement took the form of excluding foreigners from the assembly,
removing Tobiah from the temple, restoring the Levitical tithes, stopping Sabbath breaking, and
disciplining those who had intermarried with pagans.
24. refused to go and confront the Canaanites unless ____________ came with into the battle.
25. Each cycle in the book of Judges portrays a downward spiral. This spiral includes Jephthah’s
immoral relationship with foreign women.
26. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin and not Judah. Thus, he could not be the rightful King of
Israel.
27. In the _______________ campaign, the town of Jericho was captured.
28. The book of _____________ shows how the remnant were motivated to “rise up and build”
Jerusalem’s walls.
29. The Judge _________________ made a rash vow to the Lord saying, “whatever” came out of
his house to greet him upon his return from battle “will belong to the Lord, and I will offer it as a
burnt offering.”
30. Whose bones were buried in the Promised Land at Shechem?
31. Solomon’s ________________ turned him away from wholeheartedly following the Lord.
32. The emphasis on true worship in 1 & 2 Chronicles explains why the word “___________” is
found thirty-two times.
33. The major theological theme of 1–2 Chronicles is the importance of true worship.
34. The Jewish Feast of ____________ originates in the story of Esther.
35. Each cycle in the book of Judges portrays a downward spiral. This spiral includes Gideon’s
foolish vow.
36. Ruth’s kinsman redeemer was
37. The political capital of the Northern tribes was at
38. Under the principle of ___________________, the next of kin of a deceased man was to marry
his widow and produce an offspring in order to prevent the deceased man’s lineage and name
from dying out.
39. According to our textbook, one reason for the northern kingdom’s downfall is that they rejected
the covenant itself.
40. As a Gentile who marries a Hebrew from Bethlehem, Ruth pictures the love of God for both
Hebrews and Gentiles.
41. Each cycle in the book of Judges portrays a downward spiral. This spiral includes Samson’s
disdain for his Nazarite vow.
42. Elijah’s prophetic successor was Elisha.
43. When the nation of Israel divided, the Kingdom to the south was known as
44. David captures Jerusalem from the Jebusites and moves the Ark of the Covenant there.
45. Elijah, the lone prophet of God, confronted the 450 prophets of Baal on
46. In the ________________ campaign, God sent a hailstorm in order to defeat Israel’s enemies.
47. So prosperous was Solomon that God expanded Israel’s borders to the degree originally
promised in the Abrahamic covenant and reaffirmed to Joshua.
48. According to our textbook, the story of _____________ is a ray of hope during the period of the
Judges.
49. The tribe of Dan settled land on the East bank of the Jordan River.
50. The tribe of Reuben settled land on the East bank of the Jordan River.

BIBL 104 Quiz The Old Testament Books of Wisdom and Poetry
1. According to our textbook, the value of _______________ is a reoccurring theme or motif found
throughout the book of Ecclesiastes.
2. According to our textbook, _________________ is one of the more popular topics in the book of
Proverbs.
3. Job accuses God of prejudice and curses the day of his birth.
Proverbs.
5. According to our textbook, Job’s three friends are commended for their companionship but are
condemned for their false accusations and misguided theology.
6. “The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.” (Prov.
10:18) is an example of
7. According to our textbook, perhaps the greatest benefit the believer can gain by studying the
Song of Songs is the reminder that love is a gift from God and should be enjoyed as a gift.
8. “Genuine righteousness leads to life, but pursuing evil leads to death.” (Prov. 11:19) is an
example of
9. The focus of the Proverbs is heavenly rather than earthly.
10. The book of Proverbs consistently presents the sluggard as a fool and the diligent person as
wise.
11. Proverbs are typically based on education and knowledge.
12. According to our textbook, _____________________ is a reoccurring theme or motif found
Proverbs.
14. Historically, the most common method used in interpreting the Song of Songs was to treat the
Song as an allegory of God’s love for Israel.
15. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Prov.
22:6). This wisdom holds true as a general rule, not an absolute promise.
16. The Hebrew word hevel, literally means
17. According to our textbook, the _____________________ is a reoccurring theme or motif found
Proverbs.
19. The title “Song of Songs” can literally be translated from the Hebrew “The Greatest Song of
Solomon.”
20. ___________________ predictively refer to Christ, the anointed messianic King.
21. are prayers that celebrate the special relationship between the Lord and the house of the Davidic
king.
22. In Proverbs child-rearing is a family affair but discipline begins with the individual.
23. According to our textbook, the _____________________ is a reoccurring theme or motif found
24. The list of individuals who composed material in the Psalms includes Solomon.
25. “Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.” (Prov. 16:18) is an example
of
26. The list of individuals who composed material in the Psalms includes Saul.
27. A _________________ is a prayer offered in times of trouble, pleading for God’s help,
intervention, and deliverance.
28. The ______________ are songs of praise the people sang as they made pilgrimage to
Jerusalem.
29. The list of individuals who composed material in the Psalms includes David.
30. Most English Bibles translate “Qohelet” as
31. The psalms are divided into _____________ books.
32. Job’s friends respond to his suffering by saying, “Why don’t you curse God and die?”

33. According to our textbook, the expression “_______________” refers to the activities of man as
observed and experienced from a human perspective.
34. Proverbs contains a balanced view of wealth and poverty.
35. The __________ focus on the Lord’s kingdom rule over His creation.
36. Job’s friends assume he must have done something terribly wrong, unjust, or unwise to
experience such an incredible tragedy.
37. Job is convinced that if he could only have the opportunity to present his case to God,
then God would realize he is judging the wrong man, and Job would be proclaimed innocent.
38. The phrase “of Solomon” in the Hebrew title of the Song of Songs calls into question whether this
was a song “by Solomon,” “about Solomon,” or “for Solomon.”
39. Job states his faith in the resurrection when he says: “I know that my redeemer
..And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.”
40. According to our textbook, allegorical interpretations of the Song of Songs are correct since they
are based on careful exegesis of the text in the Song of Songs.
41. “Qohelet,” a term meaning
42. In a general sense the proverbs can be grouped into two major forms. One of these forms is
43. A proverb is a short poetic sentence conveying wisdom in a concise and memorable form.
44. Proverbs are written in such a simple way that they produce reflection within the mind of the
reader.
45. Proverbs are general truths, not specific promises or guarantees from God.
46. Bildad, one of Job’s three friends, suggests that God may use suffering as a means to
keep men from sin, to chastise, and to maintain a healthy degree of reverence before the
Almighty.
47. are songs of praise that focus on the Lord’s eternal attributes and His great acts in creation and
history.
48. The ____________________ are expressions of trust in the Lord and praise to the Lord for the
security He provides to those who trust in Him.
49. In response to his friends’ advice, Job admits that he is a sinner but that his sins are not
categorically vile. Job asserts that he may have committed mortal sins but he certainly did not
commit venial ones.
50. The Proverbs tell us how to live life successfully.
BIBL 104 Quiz The Old Testament Books of Prophecy
1. According to the textbook, the key verse to the book of Lamentations is “Because of the Lord’s
faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is
Your faithfulness” (Lam. 3:22–23).
2. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he
is described as a “Prince of Heaven.”
3. Daniel and his three friends were not able to keep their kosher diet while serving the king.
4. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was
covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments
is described as a “Wonderful Counselor”
6. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the true vine.
7. Habakkuk’s first question was:
8. God commanded Hosea to marry a promiscuous and unfaithful wife, who subsequently gave
birth to three children with symbolic names. Both the woman and the children were metaphors of
Israel’s covenant unfaithfulness toward the Lord. Israel had prostituted itself by turning away
from the Lord and following other gods.
9. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is from the throne of David.
10. Daniel’s three friends were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
11. According to our textbook, the overall theme of Daniel is God’s sovereignty over the people of
Israel and the nations of the world.

12. Micah likened the greed and the disregard of Israel’s leaders for the poor to cannibals that
chopped the people up and made them into stew.
13. Daniel is not mentioned in the account of the statue and the fiery furnace because he willingly
bowed to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue.
14. Because of his strong preaching, Jeremiah was appreciated by kings, priests, and the people of
Judah.
15. The king and people of Nineveh took Jonah’s warning of destruction seriously and expressed
their repentance by fasting from food and drink, wearing sackcloth, crying out to God, and
turning from their violent behavior.
16. Habakkuk’s message is a personal one in which the prophet laments and dialogues with the
Lord over the justice of His ways in using the Babylonians to punish Judah’s sins.
17. The book of Jonah is a two-part story. The first part of the book is about God’s mercy to His
disobedient prophet. The second part of the book is about God’s mercy to the wicked people of
Nineveh.
18. The book of Lamentations is an anonymous composition but early tradition identifies
___________ as the author of the book.
19. The possibility that the Lord might show mercy to the Assyrians was why Jonah refused to go to
the city in the first place.
20. The Lord commissioned Isaiah as a prophet in the year of King Uzziah’s death.
21. Hosea compared Israel’s unfaithfulness to spoiled grapes, a wild vine, a trained heifer, and a
rebellious daughter.
22. During Hosea’s life Israel’s political size and economic stability increased, these were not
indicators of spiritual vitality.
23. According to Nahum, God’s justice demanded the Assyrians experience the suffering and
degradation they inflicted on others.
24. Nahum delivered his messages during the reign of Josiah around the same time Daniel
commenced his prophetic ministry.
25. Like a con artist, Nineveh had seduced other nations into alliances and then had
betrayed them because of her greed and lust for wealth.
26. Daniel was thrown into a lion’s den because he refused to stop praying.
27. Daniel and his three friends were given Babylonian names in order to acclimate them to
Babylonian life and culture.
28. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the healer of the nations.
29. Zephaniah’s preaching thus helped influence perhaps the greatest revival in Judah’s history.
30. The book of Lamentations is a series of five separate laments over the fall of Jerusalem to the
31. The book of Isaiah opens with seven sermons that serve as a thematic introduction to the book.
32. Matthew 8:17 quotes from Isa 53:4 (“He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases”) as
evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
33. John 12:38 quotes from Isa 53:1 (“Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed?”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
34. Zechariah was a postexilic prophet who foretold the coming of Israel’s true and final King.
35. According to Lamentations, Jerusalem’s fate was worse than that of Sodom.
36. Judgment, however, was not the final word for Judah or the nations. In the last days, the Lord
would purify the speech of all peoples so they might worship and serve Him.
37. Amos opened his book of prophecies with the startling image of God as a ___________. Rather
than protecting them, Yahweh would roar out in judgment against them.
is described as an “Everlasting Father.”
39. Habakkuk was a contemporary of
40. The enormity of the temple rebuilding process, economic hardships, and opposition from the
surrounding peoples stalled the project for sixteen months.
41. The extended message of salvation at the center of the book of Micah, as well as the emphasis
on salvation at the end of each section, reflects Micah’s focus on the hope of Israel’s future
salvation.

42. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is noted for peace without end.
43. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is marked by grace and truth.
44. Critical scholarship has argued for multiple authorship of the book and has viewed chapters 40–
66 as coming after the time of Isaiah.
45. One lament in Lamentations features a beleaguered individual who probably is the
personification of the city of Jerusalem.
46. Daniel was a contemporary of ___________ and _____________.
47. Rather than rejoicing in his successful preaching mission and the salvation of the Ninevites,
Jonah was angered that the Lord spared the city.
48. The name Immanuel means “God for us.”
49. During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar desecrated the temple vessels taken from
50. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a suffering servant.

HIWD 341 Quiz 1,2,3
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HIWD 341 Quiz 1 Introduction to Islam
Covers the Learn material from Module 1: Week 1.
1. The Egyptian President forced out by the army after the March 2011 Arab uprisings was:
2. The Parameters of this course run from ________ to _________:
3. In Muhammad’s mi’raj (ascent into heaven), he reportedly saw and climbed a ladder reaching up
into heaven. This story is similar and may have been based on the experiences of which early
Hebrew leader?
4. The Islamic faith is stuck doing what two things?
5. The three events that took place at the dawn of the early modern era and redefined the Modern
Middle East were:
6. The Gunpowder Empires helped Islam climb out of the ____________
7. The Middle East in Late Antiquity was dominated by which two empires?
8. The major or primary message of the Quran may best be summarized as:
9. What two characteristics distinguish modern history?
10. The Mongol invasions, through the subsequent ____________, expose the Middle East to Far
Eastern cultures and motifs like never before.
11. Gelvin sees the Islamic Modern Era to encompass what era?
12. The sira, or biography of Muhammad, was written by:
13. The ancient empires are characterized as what?
14. Which pillar of Islam is obligatory only if one has the ability to do it?
15. Iraq was the wealthiest province in what ancient empire?
16. Muslims regard Mohammad as:
17. Professor Samuel P. Huntington’s thesis that Islamic civilization is stuck in unchanging values
found in the Quran is called:
18. Which invading group had arguably the most lasting impact on Islam and the Middle East?
19. All of the following areas were conquered early on by Islam EXCEPT:
20. Known as 1 AH, in what year does Islamic history and their calendar begin?
HIWD 341 Quiz 2 Gunpowder Empires
1. What are the three major and largest groups of Shi’ites?
2. Shari’a Law comes from the word Shari’a, meaning:
3. Devshirme were:
4. The word Qur’an means:
5. What does the Quran indicate is the status of women in terms of economic and legal standing?
6. A Gazi warrior is what kind of warrior?
7. While decline had begun in the eleventh century, the end of the Golden Age is generally agreed
to be:
8. All the exemplary actions and behaviors of the Prophet, passed down by customs and traditions
in Islam are known collectively as:
9. Who sacked Baghdad and killed hundreds of thousands and the last Abbasid Caliph in 1258?
10. Which Mughal (Mogul) Emperor used gunpowder effectively and remained undefeated in battle?
11. The highest form of Muslim art is:
12. Symbolic of European love for the Turks’ introduction of coffee into Europe, which composer
wrote the “Coffee Cantata”?

13. In the Seventh century, the majority of the subjects of the new Arab Empire were:
14. The Safavid Empire called the imported slaves from the conquered Christian kingdoms of
Georgia, Armenia and Circassia:
15. The Translation movement associated with the Golden Age was largely a continuation of work
being done by:
16. Muslim tradition tells us that the Qur’an was first collected in written form by:
17. What were the names of the two Ottoman crack units that assisted them in creating their
empire?
18. What European discovery bypassed the Ottoman and Safavid Empires and monopolized long-
distance sea trade?
19. All of India was brought under the control of the Mughals (Moguls) by what year?
20. The Ottomans used gunpowder to devastating effect at what siege?
HIWD 341 Quiz 3 Rise of Europe
1. The traditional crack troops of the Ottomans, the Janissaries, were hunted down and eliminated
in what 1826 event?
2. Tunisia’s great state-builder of the 19th Century was:
3. Ottoman Capitulations were:
4. When did construction on the Suez Canal begin?
5. The Ottoman Constitution, the first non-European constitution in the Eastern Hemisphere, was
first established in ________ and restored in
6. Great Britain became the dominant European colonial power in India after which war?
7. How did the Ottomans view Protestants and their Reformation?
8. Lord Byron celebrated the cause of independence for what Balkan country?
9. TheTanzimat reforms in 19th century Ottoman Empire is an example of:
10. Who became the principle antagonist of the Ottomans in the 18th century?
11. The experience of Jawhariyyeh related in the book indicates that Ottoman Jerusalem in the 19th
Century was:
12. What group led the charge for independence in Algeria in the mid-20th Century?
13. Who wrote the Book of Reform?
14. After the fall of the Safavid Empire, what to European countries fought for control of Persia in
what became known as the “Great Game”?
15. Nationalism needs what three conditions present in order to become a movement?
16. Networks of like-minded people for reconstructing the morals of Islamic Law to deal with the
modern world are known as:
17. Gelvin denes ___________ as the contemporary world economy and the world system of nation-
states in which every functioning society has to operate.
18. As the original Rome lay in the hands of the pope and the 2nd Rome (Constantinople) had been
conquered by the Ottomans, what city had become known as the 3rd Rome?
19. What new military corps adopted Western forms of drill and armaments and eventually replaced
the Janissaries?
20. France used Algeria as a place to dump ____________ in the 19th century?

RLGN 210 Quiz 7
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RLGN 210 Quiz 7 Liberty University
1. How does the author define a nation?
2. According to the author, what important function do biblical genealogies perform?
3. There is an ex nihilo, “out of nothing,” quality to human creativity, reflected, for instance in their
use of language.
4. In the remade world foretold in the Book of Revelation, the center of God’s creative delight is not
a garden but a…
5. An accurate paraphrase of God’s instruction to Adam would be something like: “All right Adam,
I’ve laid out this garden very carefully—don’t change anything! Take are to keep it the way it is.”
6. Before God sends the man and the woman into exile from the garden, what does He do?
7. The story of the biblical narrative focuses on how God will manage to rescue not just human
beings but the entire project of human culture from the vanity of Babel.
8. Genesis 1 is above all else about how culture and the role of cultivation are not significant, and
should not concern us. Rather, only when we withdraw from such pursuits can we serve the
Lord.
9. The author believes that the logical end point of the process that began when the man and
woman made fig leaves in their first moments of self-and- sin-consciousness is what?
10. The author describes the biblical narrative of Adam naming the animals in the garden. How does
he describe this scene?
11. Which aspect of being “made in God’s Image” does the author highlight and emphasize as the
primary implication of the text?
12. According to the author, what is the difference between the garden of Eden and a contemporary
theme park, such as Disney World?
13. In almost every instance, it is enough to simply know the beginning and ending of a story, without
knowing how it gets from the one to the other.
14. Human beings do not exist independently of the rest of creation but in profound dependence on
it and with great responsibility for parts of it.
15. Just as Babel was the cultural embodiment of independence from God, so Israel will be the
embodiment of dependence on God.
16. Only a nation with the cultural depth acquired through many generations of history will be able to
offer a compelling response to the variety of human experience, the many different features of
the world that human beings must make something of.
17. Why does the author say that the extraordinary cultural experiment of Israel will need to unfold
over the course of centuries?
18. According to the author, how does the Bible envision human dominion?
19. Human creativity images God’s creativity when it emerges from a lively, loving community of
persons and participates in unlocking the full potential of what has gone before and creating
possibilities for what will come later.
20. While man may have fallen in the garden of Eden by eating the forbidden fruit, culture was not
impacted, and continues to operate to this day as an arena of life untainted by sin.

RLGN 210 Quiz 6
RLGN 210 Quiz 6 The Models of Engagement
1. Which model sees Christianity as being fundamentally compatible with the surrounding culture,
and believes that God is at work redemptively within cultural movements that have nothing
explicitly to do with Christianity. The primary way to engage culture, then, is for the church to
adapt to new realities and connect to what God is doing in the world.
2. Keller recognizes the pervasiveness of sin, and therefore…
3. What does Keller describe as the main case he makes in this chapter?
4. How does Keller diagnose each of the models for cultural engagement?
5. Sin has ruined and defaced the moral capacities of man, but has left untouched the rational
faculties, and as such the sacrifice of Christ is necessary not so that we can know the truth, but
so that we can live the truth that we all intuitively know.
6. Christ’s saving and ruling power comes to us in two great stages: the first at the Incarnation, and
the second at the Transfiguration.
7. Keller believes that much of the current division in the church over the different models of cultural
engagement boils down to the fundamental question:
8. Which of the following is one of the two “fundamental questions” that each model of cultural
engagement is attempting to answer?
9. Which model has a core teaching that God rules all of creation, but does so in two distinct ways.
First, there is the common kingdom, established through the covenant with Noah, and secondly
there is the redemptive kingdom, established with Abraham in Genesis 12. It believes that only
the building of the church—evangelism, discipleship, and Christian community—is “kingdom
work,” and that the main problem today is the confusion of these two kingdoms?
10. Which model runs the risk of downplaying the need for theological reflection and Christian
doctrine, as well as tends to seem dated as cultural trends shift?
11. What does Keller believe about each model of cultural engagement?
12. The doctrine of creation tells us that, first of all, the material world—including culture—is
important, and not to be discarded or abused.
13. The main positive focus of the Transformationist model is…
14. While the doctrine of creation shows us the goodness of work, even in so-called secular callings,
and gives us a vision for culture building, the doctrine of the fall warns us against utopianism and
triumphalism.
15. The basic idea of the Two Kingdoms model centers on…
16. Despite seeing benefis in each cultural engagement model, Keller ultimately sides most strongly
with the Relevant model.
17. Transformationism has been accused of failing to recognize the dangers of Christians becoming
too absorbed in seeking and exercising power.
18. What are the two complementary truths that a balanced view of the Fall requires?
19. Why does Keller recommend using models to grapple with cultural engagement, even though he
recognizes that there are flaws in each?
20. Throughout this chapter, Keller routinely compares his models of cultural engagement with the
models proposed by which influential Christian thinker?

RLGN 210 Quiz 5
RLGN 210 Quiz 5 Liberty
1. How does Keller define “pietism?”
2. There are no areas where the Bible gives us freedom to conduct life in different ways. Even the
most seemingly-minute areas of when to arrive at events, or what foods to eat, are actually
prescribed in the Bible. This is the meaning of Sola Scriptura.
3. The Two Kingdoms model of cultural engagement typically views the political realm as the
primary field of Christian activity in the modern world.
4. Conceptual reasoning is when people make decisions and arrive at convictions through insight
and experience. Such people find stories and narratives more convincing and mind-changing
than proving propositions through reasoning.
5. How does Keller define general revelation?
6. The gospel should make us humble, but never confident.
7. When American fundamentalism went into a more pietistic mode in the first half of the twentieth
century, it drew more from its German roots, which emphasized submission to the state and
culture, than from its Puritan roots, which did not.
8. According to Keller, “A” beliefs are those which cultures hold in common with the Bible, whereas
“B” beliefs are those which cultures hold in opposition to the Bible.
9. As Romans 1 and 2 teach us, all human beings are made in the image of God, and can therefore
understand certain truths about God and reality, even if they reject the gospel. This means we
should have some respect for all cultures, even if they are not explicitly Christian.
10. What does Keller say is the most important source for learning about a culture?
11. It is only when we challenge the culture’s errors on the basis of something it rightly believes that
we will see the gospel having an impact on people.
12. What three elements does Keller identify in every gospel presentation that Paul preached in the
New Testament?
13. What trend best describes the number of evangelical Christians in America following World War
II?
14. What does Keller believe that Romans 1 and 2 teach about contextualization?
15. Before the great culture shift in America, evangelicals could not count on their listeners to be
mentally able to understand the message of the Christian faith. This message was rarely seen as
credible and positive.
16. If the church does not think much about culture—about what parts are good, bad, or indifferent
according to the Bible—its members will begin to uncritically imbibe the values of the culture.
17. In the beginning of this chapter, Keller uses a metaphor to describe the work of contextualization.
What is this metaphor?
18. It is enough if cultures share certain beliefs with the Bible; if they have these, we do not need to
confront the areas where they diverge from the Bible.
19. Which thinker does Keller most associate with the rise of the “Christian worldview” concept?
20. What is the epistemological challenge?

RLGN 210 Quiz 4
RLGN 210 Quiz 4 Foundations of Contextualization
1. As an example of poor contextualization, Keller uses the illustration of “liberal Christianity,” which
unwisely wedded itself to which worldview, thinking it represented a permanent change in human
thinking that had to be accepted?
2. Because of our cultural blinders, we must not only speak to the people over the bridge, we must
listen to them as well.
3. Proper contextualization will always give people the answers they want to hear.
4. The Bible and culture are equally authoritative sources of truth, and thus we may use the Bible to
correct a culture, but we can also use the culture to argue that parts of the Bible are now
obsolete.
5. A Church should avoid making radical changes to historic Christian doctrine in the name of
contextualizing to its culture.
6. Effective contextualization addresses culture in the broadest sense of the word, along the
maximum surface area.
7. Keller asserts that the Scriptures have supreme authority, and are thus always right. But a
Christian communicator’s understanding of the Bible may definitely be wrong, and therefore must
always be open to being corrected.
8. Does Keller believe there can be universal, culture-free expressions of the biblical teachings?
9. Interactions with different cultures hinder our ability to come to a more solid biblical Christianity,
because by emphasizing human traditions and expressions, we deteriorate the authority of the
Scriptures.
10. Contextualization is based on the idea of a nonauthoritative Bible, which may be shaped in
different ways by different cultures.
11. The main purpose of contextualizing the gospel is to change someone’s superficial behavior—for
example, the music they listen to or the clothes they wear.
12. Does Keller consider contextualization unavoidable?
13. Keller indicates that interaction with different cultures should lead Christians to…
14. In the chapter, Keller uses the Western phenomenon of “church hoppers,”—people who attend a
variety of churches and don’t join or fully enter any of them—as an example of…
15. Keller argues that because all gospel ministry and communication is already heavily adapted to a
particular culture…
16. How does Keller believe we should use this contextualizing bridge?
17. Undercontextualizing is when we fail to adequately or accurately adapt our gospel presentation
to the culture, and therefore make it unnecessarily alien to our listeners.
18. In response to a lack of fruitfulness in ministry, the appropriate response for the minister is to
recognize that, as Keller says, “the people of the city are too spiritually proud and hardened.”
19. Since gospel communicators should seek to correct their hearers’ cultural beliefs with the gospel,
they need not seek to correct their own understanding of the gospel through interaction with
different cultures.
20. How Does Keller Dene “contextualization?”

RLGN 210 Quiz 3
RLGN 210 Quiz 3 The Work of the Gospel
1. The main way to avoid moralistic preaching is to be sure that you always preach Jesus as the
ultimate point and message of every text.
2. One way that the gospel becomes applied to people’s hearts in a church is through the most
basic and informal means possible— what the older writers simply called “conversation.”
3. Keller believes that law obedience is the result of…
4. Keller argues that a rediscovery of the gospel is necessary because the gospel emphasis on
grace could be lost in several ways. What are these ways?
5. How does Keller feel about the role of innovation or creativity relative to gospel renewal?
6. Keller recommends fostering gospel renewal dynamics by injecting an experiential element into a
church’s small group ministry or even to form several groups just dedicated to it.
7. Some parts of the Bible are “better” for gospel preaching than others.
8. How does Keller perceive the relationship between human effort and revival?
9. Keller identifies “extraordinary prayer” as an instrumental cause of revival. How does he describe
extraordinary prayer?
10. According to Keller, in every instance in Scripture, which class of people connects more readily
to Jesus?
11. Keller states that “there are, in the end, only two questions to ask as we read the Bible.” What
are these questions?
12. Those who approach religion moralistically do good deeds not for God’s sake or for goodness’
sake, but for their own sake. Their behavior is being changed by the power of their own self-
interest, and can never be acceptable to God.
13. Without the power of the Spirit, our hearts don’t really believe in God’s delight or grace, so they
operate in their default mode. But the truths of the gospel, brought home by the Spirit, slowly but
surely help us grasp in a new way how safe and secure, how loved, and how accepted we are in
Christ.
14. In this chapter, Keller references a particular preacher, whose methodology of preaching two
times a day, in the morning and the evening, was very influential to him. Who was this famous
preacher?
15. Moralistic behavior change bends a person into a different pattern through fear of consequences
rather than melting a person into a new shape.
16. What does Keller believe is the ultimate source of revival?
17. The gospel frees us from having to do the right thing, by providing us with Christ’s righteousness
instead. We are therefore free to live any kind of life we wish, and are confident that God will
accept us anyway.
18. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart change will be superficial and fleeting. The purpose
of preaching, pastoring, counseling, instructing, and discipling is, therefore, to show people these
practical implications of faith in the gospel.
19. Keller indicates that there are actually two ways of rejecting God. What are these two ways?
20. When Christians realize they did not save themselves but were rescued from spiritual poverty, it
naturally changers their attitude toward people who are in economic and physical poverty,
leading them to be less inclined to help the poor, since the poor should rely on God instead of
money.

RLGN 210 Quiz 2
RLGN 210 Quiz 2 The Culture and the Gospel
1. The free, unshakable grace of God liberates us to follow all of our passions, appetites, and
affections in this life, knowing that they have already been forgiven by Jesus at the Cross.
2. According to Keller, does the gospel provide a standard by which to oppose human authority, or
obey human authority?
3. In the subsection on race and culture, does Keller describe Christianity as universal, or
particular?
4. Pathologies in the church and sinful patters in our individual lives, primarily stem from
socioeconomic structural flaws in society, which have failed to accommodate themselves to the
social teachings of the gospel.
5. What does Keller say a church that truly understands the implications of the biblical gospel will
look like?
6. The gospel is a set of beliefs, but it cannot remain a set of beliefs if it is truly believed. The
Christian story provides us with a set of lenses, not something for us to look at, but for us to look
through.
7. Keller writes that “the coming of the messianic King occurs in two stages.” What are these
stages?
8. Keller identifies two equal and opposite dangers to the gospel. What are they?
9. Sexuality is supposed to reflect the self-giving of Christ. Consequently, we may give of ourselves
in this regard to anyone we wish, so long as we both consent to it.
10. Because Jesus was the king who became a servant, we see a reversal of values in His kingdom
administration, such that in His kingdom, the poor, sorrowful, and persecuted are above the rich,
recognized, and satisfied.
11. Revivals and renewals are necessary only where Christians have fallen into an attitude of works-
righteousness, which rarely, if ever, happens among mature believers.
12. According to Keller, who experiences revival?
13. Repeatedly throughout the New Testament, we see that saving faith and repentance are
inseparable, and that true repentance includes grief and sorrow over our sin.
14. Personal gospel renewal includes an awareness and conviction of one’s own sin and alienation
from God, and comes from seeing in ourselves deeper layers of self-justification, unbelief, and
self-righteousness than we have ever seen before.
15. Gospel renewal seeks only to convert unbelieves and nominal church members. It does not
suppose that committed Christians need the Spirit to emphasize the gospel to them, because
they have already believed in Christ’s love and power.
16. Revivalist ministry emphasizes conversion and spiritual renewal, not only for those outside the
church, but also for those inside the church.
17. How does Keller define corporate gospel renewal?
18. Keller claims that “Gospel renewal fits our times.” What does he mean by this?
19. Revival as a phenomenon is a historical curiosity, and not a consistent pattern of how the Holy
Spirit works in a community.
20. How does Keller define Gospel renewal?

RLGN 210 Quiz 1
RLGN 210 Quiz 1 Gospel Foundations
1. Keller discourages reading the Bible in light of “intercanonical themes,” which, he says, impose a
foreign interpretive framework over the text, and reduce its authenticity.
2. According to the Kingdom theme in Scripture, Christ’s liberating rule has already fully arrived on
earth, beginning at the Incarnation.
3. How does Keller respond to the popular saying, “Preach the gospel; use words if necessary?”
4. How does Keller describe the relationship between gospel belief and good works?
5. The Covenant theme in Scripture raises and answers questions like: how can God be both
faithful to His law and faithful to those who break His law?
6. What does Keller identify as the root of all human problems, which the gospel claims to set right?
7. How does the Systematic-Theological Method (STM) present scripture?
8. Because the canon is closed, the gospel has no versatility to address the particular hopes, fears,
and idols of every culture and person, but rather speaks to only one particular context.
9. How do the different biblical themes that Keller identifies relate to each other?
10. Keller describes how the gospel points to Jesus Christ as the One Who will “put things right”
again. What are the three ways or stages by which Christ accomplishes this?
11. The synchronic approach to the Bible reads the text along its narrative arc, or redemptive history.
12. There is no ultimate reason why the diachronic and synchronic approaches should contradict
one another, and using both approaches helps do justice to the fact that the Bible is both
unmistakably divine, and providentially human
13. John and the Synoptic writers reveal complementary aspects of the gospel stressing both the
individual and corporate dimensions of our salvation.
14. Which illustration does Keller use to describe our need for the gospel?
15. Keller identifies two “terrible consequences” of sin. What are these?
16. All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
17. How does Keller answer the question: “Are covenant blessings of God conditional or
unconditional?”
18. What are the two equal and opposite enemies of the gospel that Keller identifies?
19. According to Keller, the Covenant Fulfillment theme in Scripture shows us what?
20. The gospel is not everything we believe, do, or say, but it should inform everything we believe,
do, or say.

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