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| The argument that there is sufficient similarity between God and creation so that observation of the universe will yield a limited understanding of God's nature. This is usually said to extend more to humans than to the universe itself, in that humans are created in the image of God. Contemporary theologians have debated the extent to which sinful humans can perceive creation as pointing to God. Karl Barth rejects completely the use of analogy of being as a valid theological principle |
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| Items of belief not essential to salvation. |
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| A principle of interpretation that suggestst hat clearer passages of Scripture should be used to interpret more obscure or difficult passages. |
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| Literally "no knowledge" and taken from Greek. refers to a system of belief in which personal opinion about religious statements is expended because it is assumed that they can be neither proven nor disproven because such statements are seen as irrelevant. |
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| Any kind of theoogy that assumes that positive description of God is impossible, for by definition God, as an uncreated being, does not fit into categories of human language and thought. |
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| An early Church heretical teaching about the identity of Jesus. Jesus could not have also been truly God. In order to deal with the scriptural testimony to exalted status of Christ, followers of this said Jesus was the highest created being of God, but fully human |
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| A divine attribute which refers to God's self-existence. |
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| Literally means "standard" or "rule". The term is most closely associated with the collection of books recognized as the Word of God |
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| Summary statement of Christian faith and belief for summary in orthodoxy. |
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| A group of theologians writing between the council of Nicaea and Council of Constantinople. They responded to Arian heresy and formulated the doctrine of the trinity. |
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| Te theological study devoted to answering "Who is Jesus?" (identity) and "What is the nature and significance of what Jesus accomplished in the incarnation? (question of his work) |
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| Synonymous to doctrine in protestant teaching. Catholic and Orthodox say it is the officially accepted teaching of the church and not simply theories by theologian. |
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| Refers to the manifestations of the three persons of the Trinity in relationship to the world, particularly in regard to the outworking of God's plan of salvation |
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| fides quarens intellectum filioque |
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| Faith seeking understanding. Shows the relationship of religious fatih to human reason. |
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| A term used to declare that God reveals something about the divine nature through the created order. |
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| Same in substance. Presented by Athanasius that the Son derives his substance from the Father and hence shares the same substance as the Father |
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| The idea that God is present in, close to, and involved with creation. |
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| The characteristic, usually associated with God, of being unaffected by earthly , temporal circumstances, particularly the experience of suffering and its effects. |
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| The philosophical exploration into the ultimate nature of reality lying beyond the merely physical. |
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| The right belief in Christianity |
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| An apparent contradiction |
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| God is the ultimate author of the Bible in its entirety. |
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| Literally, breathing. The term used to describe the way the Spirit proceeds from the Father (and the Son). |
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| The attribute of god that refers to being wholly and distinctly separate from creation (although always actively involved in and with it as well) |
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| Brought all aspects of the Catholic faith into harmony with the contemporary concerns or the modern age. |
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| Philosophical inquiry into the nature, sources, limits, and methods of gaining knowledge. |
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| The view that matters of religious and theological truth must be accepted by faith apart from the exercise of reason. |
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| A teaching rejected by the Christian community as contrary to Scripture and hence to orthodox doctrine. |
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| Used by Arians to say that the Son is of similar but not identical substance as God the Father. Heresy. |
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| The term used to explore and, to a certain degree, explain the internal workings and relationships among the three persons of the Trinity. |
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| The idea that Scripture is completely free from error. |
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| The trinitarian heresy that does not view the Father, Son, and Spirit as three particular persons in relation, but merely as three modes or manifestations of the one divine person of God. |
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| The branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being |
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| The one God became incarnate in the form of the Son, was born of a virgin and suffered and died on the cross. This belief was declared heretical. |
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| Scripture, not scripture plus church tradition, is the source of Christian revelation. |
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| A second and third century heresy that held that because the Son and the Spirit proceed from the Father, they are not equal to the Father and are thus not fully divine |
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| A distorted belief in three different Gods - Father Son and Holy Spirit - rather than one God who is unified and yet diversely three persons. |
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| The view that there are vestiges, or evidences, of the one God in the created order and that God has revealed the divine being analogously in creation. |
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| In semantics, the term is used to identify words that have more than one possible meaning. |
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| A Latin term which means "and the Son" became significant because of its addition to the desciption of the Holy spirit in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (AD 381) by the Western churches in the sixth century. |
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| The discipline that studies the principles and theories of how texts ought to be interpreted, particularly sacred texts such as the Scriptures. |
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| Refers to each of the three concrete and distinct trinitarian persons who share a single divine nature ore essence. |
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| The characteristic of not experiencing change or development. |
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| The characteristic of being incapable of failing to accomplish a predetermined purpose. |
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| In theology the term refers to salvation history or to God's providential plan and care of creation. |
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| Trinitarian thought suggests that the Son derives his (word) from the Father and yet what the Son is so the Father is exactly. |
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| The theological concept affirming that the divine essence is shared by each of the three persons of the Trinity in a manner that avoids blurring the distinctions between them. |
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| God's divine self-revelation evidenced specifically in salvation history and culminating in the incarnation as understood in scripture. |
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| God breathed, or God inspired. Generally this word is used to describe the divine dimension of scripture either as divinely inspired documents or as the product of divinely inspired authors |
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| The idea that a word carries the same meaning when applied to God that it has when predicated of something in creation. |
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| The drawing of analogies to the Trinity from the threefold structure of certain created things. |
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