Wesleyan Disciple Formation UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
According to Wesleyan wisdom: If we preach doctrine only people will become ________; if
we preach experience only, they will become ________; and if we preach practice only, they
will become _________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Antinomians; Enthusiasts; Pharisees
________ is the mere mental assent to a doctrine as being true. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Fides
________ is a sure abiding trust in the salvific reality contained in the doctrinal affirmation. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Fiducia
The Wesleyan maxim to "urge practice" is rooted in the notion that Christian practices should
flow from deeply habituated _______. - CORRECT ANSWER- Dispositions
In the Christian faith, salvation implies a special kind of freedom, which one receives as a
________ from God. - CORRECT ANSWER- Gift
Prior to the Enlightenment, persons were understood to be free if they were able to live as
they were ________________________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Created to be by God's
design
In the modern and now post-modern era, freedom is comprehensively connected to notions of
an _____________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Independent self
Modern Enlightenment-informed thought assumes that _______ is grounded in the
autonomous independent self. - CORRECT ANSWER- Morality
Although many early Enlightenment figures were devout Christians, the proposed path of an
independent self, led first to deism, then to _________, and most recently to a popular revival
of _________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Agnosticism, atheism
,If any one single thing may be said to be symbolic of individual freedom in late modernity, it
would be the culture of ___________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Consumerism
The distinguishing feature of the North American 'middle class' is its obsession with _______
and ________. - CORRECT ANSWER- work, money
Surveys in the late 20th and early 21 century indicate that the most common reason 1st year
college students give for their chosen field of study is: _____________. - CORRECT
ANSWER- It pays well
In North America, we are free to choose almost anything, except whether to be a _________.
- CORRECT ANSWER- Consumer
When asked how religion influences their work lives, or thoughts about money, most
Americans live and act as if ____________. - CORRECT ANSWER- The two are separate
John Stackhouse has said that a vibrant religious commitment is a threat to consumerism
because it helps people to understand that _____________________. - CORRECT
ANSWER- There is more to life than buying and selling.
Consumerism focuses people's attentino NOT on the blessings and abundance in their lives
but on all that we ___________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Do not possess
The consumerist system and culture is set up to create ___________________. - CORRECT
ANSWER- Permanent discontent
Because the market seeks to motivate us as individuals to choose the products it offers, it
makes it increasingly difficult to think in terms of ____________ and the _____________. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Community, common good
Radical postmodern "ultracritics" assert that truth is a ___________ ___________. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Social construction
Embracing the therapeutic culture of modern psychology, many evangelicals have replaced
the language of guilt and ___________ with comprehensively non-judgmental ___________
language. - CORRECT ANSWER- Accountability, self-help
,According to Mulholland __________ formation is "the process of being conformed to the
image of Christ for the sake of others." - CORRECT ANSWER- spiritual
Mulholland refers to Ephesians 1, saying that each of us has been "called forth." As such, we
may by grace become ______ of God. - CORRECT ANSWER- Words
According to Mulholland, ___________ and ____________ are essential in breaking off the
"crust of self." - CORRECT ANSWER- Spiritual disciplines, nurturing growth
Our consumeristic culture makes it almost impossible to be __________. - CORRECT
ANSWER- Altruistic
Genuine spiritual formation is inseparable from our relationship with God and ___________.
- CORRECT ANSWER- Other persons
Spiritual formation is a slow process that contradicts the desire prevalent in our culture for
_________ gratification. - CORRECT ANSWER- Instant
Mulholland believes that Christians are a ______ of God "spoken forth" into the world. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Word
The informational approach to Scripture seeks to __________ and __________ the text. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Master, control
When Scripture is viewed as iconographic, it becomes a __________ into the reality of life
shaped by the Word. - CORRECT ANSWER- Window
George McDonald, the Scottish poet, used the phrase, "_________ ____ __________" to
describe the daily practice of overcoming our habits, structures, attitudes, and perceptions. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Breaking the crust
The _______ _________ theory of scriptural authorship holds that God's inspiration, in the
form of the Holy Spirit, is exerted on the authors of biblical texts such that their words are
God's words and, therefore, infallible. - CORRECT ANSWER- Verbal dictation
, According to present-day popular American thought, to be an evangelical is essentially the
same thing as being a __________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Fundamentalist
You cannot with theological consistency be simultaneously a ________ and a
Fundamentalist. - CORRECT ANSWER- Wesleyan
The fundamentalist aim to uphold biblical infallibility stems from a desire to safeguard
_________. - CORRECT ANSWER- Truth
Faith formation is "our participation in God's work of inviting persons to relationship to
________, ______, __________, and ___________" (Matthaei, 20). - CORRECT ANSWER-
God, self, others, creation
John Wesley spoke of the necessity for both internal and outward holiness, what he called
"holiness of _______ and ________." - CORRECT ANSWER- heart, life
Arminius' primary theological opponent in Leiden was ______________. - CORRECT
ANSWER- Franciscus Gomarus
___________ is the result of the Holy Spirit's perfecting grace available to those seeking to
love God with their whole heart and their neighbor as themselves. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Sanctification
Wesley's maxim for sanctified stewardship is quite simple: ___________ all you can;
___________ all you can; and _____________ all you can. - CORRECT ANSWER- Earn,
save, give
Secularity does not in and of itself prevent spirituality, rather it encourages a self-serving
version of the sacred, a _______________. - CORRECT ANSWER- domesticated deity
Mainline American Churches often tend to equate the two or fail to see a significant
difference between cultivating __________ and cultivating _______________. - CORRECT
ANSWER- good citizens, Christians
