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| -used to refer whether an assertion is dependent on experience (a posteriori), or independent of experience (a priori). (i.e. observing creation) |
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| Speaks of God making himself known to humans in words and ways suitable for the finite mind to comprehend. (i.e. Jesus Christ) |
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| Items of belief not essential to salvation. |
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| God's act of making estranged human beings part of God's spiritual family by including them as inheritors of the riches of divine glory. |
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| Theory that asserts that God adopted Jesus of Nazareth as his Son. |
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| "coming", "arrival," of Jesus Christ to provide salvation by his life, death, resurrection, and ascension. Christians anticipate second advent. Also refers to Christmas and Jesus' birth; four Sundays prior to Christmas Day. |
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| Area of philosophy defining the nature of beauty and discovering criteria or standards by which something can be evaluated as beautiful. |
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| "no knowledge". Personal opinion about religious statements are suspended because they cannot be proved or disproved. |
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| Center of scholarship, understood task of biblical interpretation in literal, moral and allegorical senses. |
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| Allegory, Allegorical Method |
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| Interpreted by seeking the "spiritual" meaning to which the literal sense points. |
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| Belief that thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 does not refer to a specific period of time between Christ's first and second comings. |
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| A general term referring to several varied movements coming out of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century (Radical Reformation). |
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| Anaglogy of being (analogia entis) |
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| Observation of the universe will yield a limited understanding of God's nature. |
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| Suggests that religious, ethical and poetic sentences are meaningless, in that they can neither be verified or falsified. |
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| Belief that Christ did not take on characteristics of a specific human, but took on humanity in a "generic" sense. |
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| Belief that spirits are the cause of all movement, growth and change in the world. |
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| The belief that the wicked will be judges by God and thrown into the lake of fire, where they will cease to exist. However, no individual will suffer eternally a conscious experience in hell. |
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| Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) |
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| A medieval monk, philosopher and theologian who eventually became archbishop of Canterbury, England. Formed ontological argument for the existence of God as well as the satisfaction theory of atonement. |
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| "human", "word"; teachings about or concerning humandkind. Relationships, status, habits, customs, and culture. Imago Dei. Relationship between body, soul and spirit. |
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| A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to God for the sake of illustrating an important point. Making an abstract truth about God concrete. |
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| "against Christ"; a future individual who will oppose Christ and whose rule in the world will serve as a sign of the nearness of Christ's second coming. |
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| an ethical system that denies the binding nature of any supposedly absolute or external laws on individual behavior. Christians need not preach or practice the laws of the OT, because Christ has freed us from obligation. |
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| Bringing together of two seemingly contradictory laws that are both believed to be true. |
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| school in Antioch 3rd to 5th centuries; sought "deeper" allegorical moral or spiritual meanings not immediately evident in the text. |
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| "unveiling"; from John opening phrase in Revelation apokalypsis Iesou Christou |
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| Apocalyptic literature, -ism |
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| certain portions of Bible labeled this. Disclose "heavenly secrets." |
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| "restoration"; speaks of a future time when God in Christ will restore all things in creation according to God's original intention. |
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| teaching of fourth century bishop Apollinarius. Christ took on a human body and soul but not a human mind or spirit (nous). |
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| eristics, the formal defense of Christian faith. |
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| any kind of theology that positive description of God is impossible. All human language can do is assert what God is not. |
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| those who fall away from belief in God. |
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| integration and application of the Christian belief system into Christian practice |
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| Aquinas, Thomas(1225-1274) |
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| Medieval Italian thelogian and monk; work declared to be the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo XII in 1879.Theology based on the philosophical system of Aristotle. |
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| an early heretical teaching about the identity of Jesus Christ. If God is one Jesus cannot be God. |
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| James Arminius a Dutch theologian and pastor. Predestination was based on God's foreknowledge in seeing whether an individual would freely accept or reject Christ. |
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| When Christ had finished his earthly ministry, he entered the presence of the Father. |
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| spirituality is attained through renunciation of physical pleasures and personal desires. Relies on the assumption that the body is evil and the cause of sin. |
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| a se "from oneself". Refers to God's self existence, not being dependent on anyone else for existence. |
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| intellectual assent to or acceptance of a theological truth |
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| Roman Catholic. At her death Mary was transported body and soul into the presence of God. No biblical evidence. |
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| we truly are children of God. |
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| an early church apologist, theologian and bishop of Alexandria. Stood against Arian teaching of the day. |
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| a system of belief that asserts categorically that there is no God. Existence of universe is merely chance. |
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| refers to God's act of dealing with the primary human problem, sin. |
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| qualities that are essential to our understanding of God as God relates to us as created beings. |
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| sumarizes faith claims of Lutherans regarding Christ and his words |
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| One of the greatest theologians in the history of the church. Development of western church's understanding of the doctrines of the trinity, sin, predestination, and the church. Known for integration of the though categories of Platonic philosophy with theology. |
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| An area of philosophical inquiry that studies the nature, criteria, implications and application of value judgement. |
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