Answer the following questions after watching the slideshow.
1. Describe faith according to the theology of the Synoptic Gospels.
2. Read Mt 9:28 and Mk 4:40 and Lk 8:25. What does Jesus in the Synoptics demand?
3. Read Mk 5:34, 36, 9:23, 11:22-23; Lk 17:6. In the Synoptics, the act of faith is being first directed toward whom?
4. Read Mk 8:27-30, 38. In the Synoptics, is faith directed toward another person? If so, to whom? Of what would that faith, according to the Synoptics, consist?
5. Read Mk 9:37; 12:1-11, 35-37; Mt 10:32-33, 11:27-30, 16:17-19. What lies behind every utterance of Jesus about faith in the Synoptics? Describe it.
6. Let’s summarize Synoptic faith. Gather all these themes.
7. Describe faith according to the theology of Acts.
8. Read Acts 8:12-14. Describe faith in that passage. What is being received? From who? In what form is that which is given?
9. Read Acts 5:14, 9:42, 11:17, 15:1. In Acts, who are “believers”? Can they be people who get convinced of what the Apostles tell them and stay alone? Why or why not? What, according to Acts, is the object of belief and on what is that centered?
10. Read Acts 2:36. Make no mistake—what, according to Acts, is the heart of faith?
11. Read Acts 2:38, cf. 10:43-48, 18:8, 20:21. How does one express, according to Acts, acceptance of the crucified and risen Jesus as Lord?
12. What else, according to what we have seen so far, does Acts say faith requires?
13. Since, according to Acts, God’s Word is personified in Christ, what does faith necessarily involve? Can this relationship be individualistic, one-on-one (see Acts 9:1-5)? Why or why not?
14. In what we have seen so far, in Acts can faith simply be a subjective attitude, or must it be something more? If so, what does it embody (according to Acts)?
15. Let’s summarize faith in Acts. Gather all these themes.
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