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| one who aims at the abolishion of any institution (such as slavery) |
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| The absolutizing of the view that an institution must be abolished; viewing slavery |
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| Existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficient |
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| To make abolute; convert into an absolute |
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| Belonging to the appreciation of the beautiful, of the arts |
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| A to Z, the first and the last of the Greek alphabet. In the Bible, God refers to Himself as the Alpha and the Omega |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| process of reasoning from parallel cases |
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| absence of government; disorder, confusion |
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| of or having to do with man |
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| what is the origin, nature, role, and destiny of man? |
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| Things which are in oppostion to each other, in contrast |
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| Abandonment of religious faith. *subtraction from Biblical truth |
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1. Derived from mere opinion or perferrence, not based on the nature of things
2. to be decided by one's liking, dependent upon will ot pleasure |
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| disbelief in, or denial of the existence of God |
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| favorable to the principle of authority as opposed to that of the individual |
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| authoritarian principles. *Rendering some authority, as government, absolute |
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| a living being whose actions are purely involuntary or mechanical |
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| right of self government, freedom of the will (*freedom from responsibility to authority) |
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| Theory of value. What is the ultimate value? |
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| One who accept the Bible as the absolute Word of God and views God and His Word as applicable to all life |
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| That which takes place when someone or something which is not God, set itself up in the place of God |
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| the middle class (*Also, a component of the Marxian construct) |
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| Money, property or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc. The sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest |
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| One who has capital, money for investment or money invested; a person of large property, which is employed in business |
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| Possession of capital or wealth. Dominance of private owners, of captial and production for profit |
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| That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutios in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands |
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| Christian-Rationalist conglomerate |
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| *Dr Martin's term for American society in the 1700s which was a profoundly intertwined admixture of Christianity and rationalism |
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| intimate fellowship or rapport. *Communion is only possible under God who, as the glue is the source of all fellowship |
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| A theory which advocates a state society in which there should be no private ownership, all property being vested in the community and labour organzied for the common benefits of all parts; |
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| *Non-liberal; one who does not accept either the presuppositions and/or the conclusions of process philosophy |
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| body of fundamental order according to which a State or other organzation is governed |
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| *What is the origin, nature and destiny of the cosmos? |
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| All that exists, the limited of which limited man does not know |
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| Belief in the existence of God without accepting revelation. *Belief in a God who created the universe but has no ongoing relationship with man |
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| A state having government by all people. *A theory of governemtn based on the presupposition that man, not God, is the author of government |
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| *The idea flowing out of Biblical Christianity that, God being no respecter of all person, all person can participate in governance under God in their respective sphere of responsibility |
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| Destroy the morale of, corrupt the moral of |
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| Moral perversin, innate (innborn, natural) corruption of man. *Man is completely dependent upon the work and will of Fos for his delieverance from the dilemma into which he was born |
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| unfold: to go thru a process of natural evolution or growth, form a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state |
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| having to do with, proceeding from, externally like the devil: devilish inhumanly cruel |
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| Marxist theory of political events as due to conflict of social forces cause by man's material needs. (*The basis of Marxian construct which combined the dialectic of Hegel with the materialism of Feuerbach) |
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| Division into two. *A false division which arises in the mind of a person who tries to understnad something without beginning and ending with the Trinitarian God in his or her thinking |
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State of being dual or two fold; a twofold division
A system which accepts two gods, or two principles, one good and the other evil |
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| of the Church or of the clergy |
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| Ecclesiastical Absolutism or Ecclesiasticism |
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| *The church has become sovereign in the place of God |
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| of, relating to, (person) holding, the principle of equal rights for all persons. *A principle or position derived from the ontological view that all things which exist are of the same substance and therefore are equal by nature |
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| Based on or acting on observation or experiment, not on theory. Deriving knowledge from experience alone |
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| everything is produce by the environmental and constituent forces |
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| Theory of the method or grounds of knowledge. How do we know? |
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| *One who holds the Bible to be the Word of God. (May or may not believe that God and His Word are applicable to all of life; may instead, accept a dichotomy between sacred and secular) |
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| Aggravate, make worse, irritate |
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1. to utilize, to make available, to get the value or usefulness out of
2. to draw an illegitimate profit from |
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| to act of exploiting or utilizing |
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| Estimate from known value, data, etc |
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| Employing cautions dilatory (given to delay) strategy to wear out an enemy |
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| a one-party system of government in which the individual is subordinated to the state and control is maintained by military force, secret police, rigid censorship and government regimentation of industry and finance |
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| of a system of government in which several states form a unity but remain independent in internal affairs |
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| the philosophical doctrine of Hegel that dialectical reasoning, process whereby thought passes repeatedly in ascending stages from thesis to antithesis to synthesis, can unravel the order of development in which human consciousness and reality participate |
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| Opinion contrary to the orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church. *Addition to Biblical truth |
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| devotion to human interests, system concerned with human (not divine) interests |
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| *Dr Martin uses this word for a supposition, based on a selection of alternatives, used as a basis for reasoning |
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| Supposition made as basis for reasoning, without assumption of its truth |
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| Science of ideas. Manner of thinking characteristic of a class or individual. *A construct spun from the mind of man without referrence to the revealed mind of God in an effort to understnad reality and solve man's dilemmas |
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| *The postfix ism added to any term usually indicates that whatever preceds it is being absolutized (that is, rendered, if only inadvertently, the ultimate intergration point) |
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| without proper attention, negligently. *Without being conscious of what one has done or is doing |
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| *That part of a communication which is rational in nature and able to be understood intellectually by man |
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1. Not rational; void of reason or understanding
2. Not according to reason; absurd, foolish |
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| Enact laws, make provision by laws |
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| Belief that nothing exists but matter and its movements and modifications, excluding that which is supernatural |
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1. Being at this first, now existing
2. of or pertaining to the present and recent times, as distinguished from the remote past (*a component of the naturalists' structuring of history) |
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| Patriotic feeling, principles or feelings; pilicy of national independence. *The absolutizing or sovereignizing of a nation (in the place of God) |
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| view of the world that excludes the supernatual or spiritual. Action based on natural instincts; moral or religious system on purly natual basis |
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| *A theology and anthropological religion, popular among Western intellectuals, which has dispensed with even the considernation of God's existence |
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| Branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. How do we exist? |
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| Doctrine that God is everything and everything is God. 'all'-theism |
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| A perverted or corrupted form of something |
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| *'Philo' is Greek for love of and soph means wisdom. So we have the love of wisdom with regard to the origin, nature and destiny of life |
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| Seeking after wisdom or knowledge especially that which deals with ultimate reality |
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| Doctrine that there are many gods |
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| Thing assumed beforehabd as a basis of argument or discussion. That which is required as a prior condition |
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| The act of pretending or laying claim |
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| That which is put forward to cover the real purpose or object; the ostensible reason or motive of action |
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| Movement from lower to hugher; simple to complex. Conintuously increasing in severity or extent |
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| The lowest class of a community |
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| Practice of explaining ultimate reality in a way consistent with (human) reason |
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| Comparative, in relation to something else. *Not Absolute |
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| Doctrine that knowledge is relative, not absolute. *The assumption that there is nothing absolute, absolutized |
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| *The idea (John Locke and others) that right thinking exists and can be discovered apart from the Word of God. |
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| the attempt to provide an intellectual basis for something on the ground of the human intellect without reference to the Word of God; usually in terms of logical analsis |
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| Branch of philosophy concerned with meanings |
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| *The absolutizing of the social approach to man and life |
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1. of or belongong to, characteristic of supremacy or superiority
2. Having supreme rank or power |
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| Serving to help, assist or supplement |
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| To state as a minor proposition or concept under another |
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| Combination, putting together, building up of separate elements, especially of conceptions or facts into a connected whole. (*Here, a component of the Hegelian dialectic, the revolution in thought forms) |
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| Doctrine of final causes, destiny, where are we going? |
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| Lasting or existing only for a time; passing, temporary |
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1. Belonging to or lasting for a term or definite period
2. a termal gegree is the highest in one's field |
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| Belief in the existence of God (or of gods) |
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| Having God as the cental interest and ultimate concern |
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| The study or science which treats of God, His nature and attributs and His relations with man and the universe |
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| Proposition, statement, to be maintained or proved |
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| Philosophy explaining matter and objective things as products of the subjective mind regarding the divine as guiding principle in man |
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| Doctrine of the union of the three in one Godhead: Father, Son, Holy Spirit |
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1. The government of a tyrant or absolute ruler
2. Arbitrary or oppressive excercise of power; unjustly severe use of one's authority |
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1. the doctrine that actions derive their moral quality from their usefulness as means to some end, as happiness (theory held by Jeremy Bentham and John Struart Mill)
2. Devotion to mere materal interest |
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| Indeally perfect place with perfect soical and political systems |
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