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Questions on Grudem and Chicago Statement
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Religious Studies
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07/15/2008
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Term
Historical theology
 Definition
a historical study of how Christians in dif periods have understood various theological topics,
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apologetics
 Definition
providing a defense of the truthfulness of the Christian faith for the purpose of convincing unbelievers.
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philosophical theology
 Definition
studying theological topics largely without the use of the Bible
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T / F = systematic theology uses historical, philosophical, and apologetic theology
 Definition
True = takes them into consideration
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Systematic Theology is any study that answers the question ________
 Definition

What does the whole Bible teach us today? about any given topic.

 

WHOLE
Term
systematic
 Definition
carefully organized by topics
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benefits of systematic theology
 Definition

makes it possible to have much more

1 - detail

2 - accuracy

3 - fair treatment of a topic
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Doctrine
 Definition
what the whole Bible teaches us today about some particular topic.
Term
What is the dif between systematic theology and Christian ethics?
 Definition

Systematic theology is what God wants us to believe and know

Christian ethics is what God wants us to

do and what attitudes to have
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Major doctrine
 Definition
one that has a significant impact on our thinking about other doctrines and on how we live the Christian life
Term
Minor doctrine
 Definition
one that has very little impact on how we think about other doctrines and how we live the Christian life.
Term

Which of these doctrines are Minor and which are major?

 

Trinity, Lord's Supper, timing of the great tribulation, deity of Christ, church gov, justification by faith, authority of the Bible

 Definition

Major = Trinity, Deity of Christ, Justification by faith, and the Authority of the Bible

 

Minor= Lord's Supper, timing of the great trib, church gov.
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dogmatic theology
 Definition
another term for systematic theology
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doctrine is simply the result of
 Definition
the process of systematic theology
Term
5 distinctions of the Word of God
 Definition

1. as a person: Jesus Christ

2. as Speech by God in decrees (creation)

3. of personal address (directly to people)

4. through human lips (prophets)

5.  in written form (the Bible)
Term
the focus of systematic theology in regard to what aspect of the Word of God?
 Definition
written form - the Bible
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Canon
 Definition
list of all the books that belong in the Bible
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The earliest collection of written words of God
 Definition
10 commandments
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Apocrypha =
 Definition
5 books included in the canon of Roman Catholics.
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 Biblical Theology:

 Definition
The study of the teaching of the individual authors and sections of the Bible and of the place of each teaching in the historical development of the Bible.
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Christian Ethics:

Definition
Any study that answers the question “what does God require us to do and what attitudes does He require us to have today?” with regard to any given situation.
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New Testament Theology:

Definition
The study of the teaching of the individual authors and sections of the New Testament, and of the place of each teaching in the historical development of the New Testament.
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 Old Testament Theology:

Definition
The study of the teaching of the individual authors and sections of the Old Testament, and of the place of each teaching in the historical development of the Old Testament.
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Paradox:

Definition
A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true; an apparent but not real contradiction.
Term

Presupposition:

Definition
An assumption that forms the beginning point of any study.
Term

Decree:

Definition
A word of God that causes something to happen.
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  Personal Address:

Definition
A form of God’s Word in which he speaks directly to people on earth.
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  Apostle:

Definition
A recognized office of the early church. Apostles are in several ways the New Testament counterpart to the Old Testament Prophet and as such had the authority to write words of Scripture.
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     Canonical:

Definition
A term describing preserved writings that are deemed to have divine authorship and therefore which are to be included in the canon of Scripture as God’s authoritative words in written form.
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 Covenant:

Definition
An unchangeable, divinely imposed legal agreement between God and man that stipulates the conditions of their relationship.
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God-Breathed:

Definition
A translation of the Greek theopneustos (sometimes translated “inspired by God”), which the Bible (2 Tim 3:16) uses metaphorically to describe the words of Scripture as being spoken by God.
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 History of Redemption:

Definition
The series of events throughout history by which God acted to bring about the salvation of His people.
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Self-Attesting:

Definition
The self-authenticating nature of the Bible by which it convinces us that its words are God’s words.
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     Absolute Authority:

Definition
The highest authority in one’s life; an authority that cannot be disproved by appeal to any higher authority.
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    Authority of Scripture:

Definition
The idea that all the words in Scripture are God’s in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.
Term

  Circular Argument:

Definition
An argument that seeks to prove its conclusion by appealing to a claim that depends on the truth of the conclusion.
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 Dictation:

Definition
The idea that God expressly spoke every word of Scripture to the human authors.
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        Inspiration:

 Definition
A term referring to the fact that words of Scripture are spoken by God.
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     Plenary Inspiration:

Definition
The idea that all the words of Scripture are God’s words, plenary meaning “full.”
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       Scripture:

Definition
 (Greek graphe). The writings in the Old and New Testament, another term for the Bible.
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     Autograph:

Definition
The original copy of a Biblical document.
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    Faith & Practice:

Definition
A term used by some people who, denying the inerrancy of the Bible, claim that the Bible’s purpose is only to tell us about these two subjects.
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       ICBI: International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.

Definition
This organization drafted the “Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy” in 1978 that affirmed the inerrancy of Scripture and defined what most evangelicals understand by the term inerrancy.
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        Inerrancy:

Definition
The idea that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.
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     Infallibility:

Definition
The idea that Scripture is not able to lead us astray in matters of faith and practice.
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   Textual Variants:

Definition
Occurrences of different words in different ancient copies in the same verse of Scripture.
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Clarity of Scripture:

 Definition
The idea that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God’s help and being willing to follow it.
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  Exegesis:

Definition
The process of interpreting a text of Scripture.
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      Hermeneutics:

Definition
 The study of correct methods of interpreting Scripture.
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       Perspicuity:

Definition
 An older term for the clarity of Scripture.
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General Revelation:

Definition
 The knowledge of God’s existence, character and moral law that comes through creation to all humanity.
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       Special Revelation:

Definition
God’s words addressed to specific people, including the words of the Bible. This is to be distinguished from general revelation, which is given to all people generally.
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       Necessity of Scripture:

Definition
The idea that the Bible is necessary for knowing the gospel, for maintaining spiritual life, and for knowing God’s will, but is not necessary for knowing God exists or for knowing something about God’s character and moral laws.
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   Blameless: 
Definition
 Morally perfect in God’s sight, a characteristic of those who follow God’s word completely.
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  Sufficiency of Scripture:

Definition
The idea that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended His people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains all the words of God we need for salvation, for trusting Him perfectly, and for obeying Him perfectly.
Term

    Anthropomorphic Language:

Definition
 Language that speaks of God in human terms.
Term

       Aseity:

Definition
 Another name for the attribute of God’s independence or self-existence.
Term

 Communicable Attributes:

Definition
Aspects of God’s character that He shares, or “communicates” with us.
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       Eternity:

Definition
When used of God, the doctrine that God has no beginning, end, or succession of moments in His own being, and He sees all time equally vividly, yet God sees events in time and acts in time.
Term

     Infinity With Respect to Space:

Definition
 Another term for God’s omnipresence.
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    Infinity With Respect to Time:

Definition
 Another term for God’s eternity.
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      Names of God:

Definition
 Various descriptions of God’s character that are found in Scripture.
Term
       Omnipresence: 
Definition
The doctrine that God does not have size or special dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places.
Term

    Attributes of Being:

Definition
 Aspects of God’s character that describe His essential mode of existence.
Term

      Beatific Vision:

Definition
The true and real, though not exhaustive, seeing of God that will occur in heaven (lit., “the vision that makes blessed or happy”).
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        Faithfulness:

Definition
The doctrine that God will always do what he has said and will fulfill what He has promised.
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        Goodness:

Definition
he doctrine that God is the final standard of good, and that all God is and does is worthy of approval.
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    Grace:

Definition
God’s goodness towards those who deserve punishment.
Term

   Holiness:

Definition
The doctrine that God is separated from sin and devoted to seeking his own honor.
Term

  Impassibility:

Definition
The doctrine, often based on a misunderstanding of Acts 14:15, that God does not have passions or emotions. Scripture instead teaches that God does have emotions, but he does not have sinful passions or emotions.
Term

      Invisibility:

Definition
The doctrine that God’s total essence, all of His spiritual being, will never be able to be seen by us, yet God still shows Himself to us through visible, created things.
Term

        Jealousy:

Definition
 The doctrine that God continually seeks to protect His own honor.
Term

      Justice:

Definition
 Another term for God’s righteousness.
Term

1        Knowledge:

Definition
The doctrine that God fully knows Himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.
Term

    Love:

Definition
When used of God, the doctrine that God eternally gives of Himself to others.
Term

 Mental Attributes:

Definition
Aspects of God’s character that describe the nature of his knowing and reasoning.
Term

    Mercy:

Definition
 God’s goodness toward those in misery and distress.
Term

       Moral Attributes:

Definition
 Aspects of God’s character that describe His moral or ethical nature.
Term

   Omniscience:

Definition
The doctrine that God fully knows Himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.
Term

      One Simple & Eternal Act:

Definition
 A term referring to an aspect of God’s knowledge whereby he is always fully aware of everything and His knowledge never changes or grows.
Term

      Order:

Definition
 Another term for God’s peace.
Term

     Patience:

Definition
 God’s goodness in withholding of punishment toward those who sin over a period of time.
Term

       Peace:

Definition
The doctrine that God is separate from all confusion and disorder in His being and His actions, yet He is continually active in innumerable well-ordered, fully controlled, simultaneous actions.
Term

        Righteousness:

Definition
The doctrine that God always acts in accordance with what is right and that He is Himself the standard of what is right.
Term

     Spirituality:

Definition
The doctrine that God exists as a being that is not made of any matter, has no parts or dimensions, is unable to be perceived by our bodily senses, and is more excellent than any other kind of existence.
Term

Theophany:

Definition
An “appearance of God” in which He takes on a visible form to show Himself to people.
Term

      Truthfulness:

Definition
 The doctrine that God is the true God and that all His knowledge and words are both true and the final standard of truth.
Term

   Veracity:

Definition
 Another term for God’s truthfulness.
Term

        Wisdom:

Definition
The doctrine that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.
Term

   Wrath:

Definition
As an attribute of God, the doctrine that God intensely hates all sin.
Term

  Attributes of Purpose:

Definition
Aspects of God’s character that pertain to making and carrying out decisions.
Term

    Beauty:

Definition
 That attribute of God where by He is the sum of all desirable qualities.
Term

       Free Will:

Definition
(a) With respect to God: All things that God decided to will but had no necessity to will according to His nature. (b) With respect to man: The ability to make willing choices that have real effects (however, other people define this in other ways, including the ability to make choices that are not determined by God).
Term

        Glory:

Definition
 The created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of Himself. In another sense of the term, it refers to God’s honor.
Term

        Necessary Will:

Definition
Those things that God must will according to His own nature.
Term

       Omnipotence:

Definition
The doctrine that God is able to do all His holy will.
Term

        Perfection:

Definition
 The doctrine that God completely possesses all excellent qualities and lacks no part of any qualities that would be desirable for Him.
Term

       Power:

Definition
Another term for God’s omnipotence.
Term

        Blessedness:

Definition
The doctrine that God delights fully in Himself and in all that reflects His character.
Term

       Freedom:

Definition
The attribute of God whereby He does whatever He pleases.
Term

     Revealed Will:

Definition
God’s declared will concerning what we should do or what God commands us to do.
Term

        Secret Will:

Definition
God’s hidden decrees by which He governs the universe and determines everything that will happen.
Term

    Sovereignty:

Definition
God’s exercise of power over His creation.
Term

  Summary Attributes:

Definition
God’s attributes of perfection, blessedness, beauty, and glory, which are called summery attributes in this book because they have to do with looking at and evaluating all the other attributes of God considered together as a whole.
Term

   Will:

Definition
The attribute of God whereby He approves and determines to bring about every action necessary for the existence and activity of Himself and all creation.
Term

       Adoptionism:

Definition
The false teaching that Jesus lives as an ordinary man until his baptism, at which tie God “adopted” Him as His “Son” and conferred on Him supernatural powers; this teaching thus denies Jesus’ preexistence and divine nature.
Term

      Arianism:

Definition
 The erroneous doctrine that denies the full deity of the Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Term

   Economic Subordination:

Definition
 The teaching that certain members of the Trinity have roles or functions that are subject to the control or authority of other members.
Term

    Eternal Begetting of the Son:

Definition
 Description of the eternal relationship that has existed within the Trinity between the Father and the Son in which the Son has eternally related to the Father as a Son.
Term

     Filioque:

Definition
Latin for “and from the Son,” a term referring to a clause inserted into the Nicene Creed to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds not from the Father only but also from the Son. The controversy that arose over this doctrinal point contributed to the split between the Eastern and Western churches in A.D. 1054.
Term

 Homoiousios:

Definition
 A Greek word meaning, “of similar nature,” used by Arius in the fourth century to affirm that Christ was a supernaturally heavenly being but to deny that he was of the same nature as God the Father.
Term

 Homoousios:

Definition
A Greek word meaning, “of the same nature,” which was included in the Nicene Creed to teach that Christ was of the exact same nature as God the Father and therefore was fully divine as well as fully human.
Term

       Modalism:

Definition
 The heretical teaching that holds that God is not really three distinct persons, but only one person who appears to people in different “modes” at different times.
Term

 Modalistic Monarchism:

Definition
Another term for modalsim.
Term

     Only Begotten:

Definition
A mistranslation of the Greek word monogenes, which actually means “unique” or “one of a kind.” The Arians used this word to deny Christ’s deity, but the rest of the church understood it to mean that the Son eternally related as a son to the Father.
Term

Ontological Equality:

Definition
A phrase that describes the members of the Trinity as eternally equal in being or existence.
Term

     Sabellianism:

Definition
Another name for modelism, a term derived from the third-century teacher Sabellius, who propagated this doctrine.
Term

       Subordination:

Definition
The heretical teaching that the Son was inferior or “subordinate” in being to God the Father.
Term

   Trinity:

Definition
The doctrine that God eternally exists as three persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-and each person is fully God, and there is one God.
Term

    Tritheism:

Definition
The belief that there are three Gods.
Term

   Decrees of God:

Definition
 The eternal plans of God whereby, before the creation of the world, he determined to bring about everything that happens.
Term

        Free Choices:

Definition
Choices made according to our free will.
Term

        Government:

Definition
An aspect of God’s providence that indicates that God has a purpose in all that He does in the world and providentially governs or directs all things in order that they accomplish his purposes.
Term

  Middle Knowledge:

Definition
An Arminian view of God’s foreknowledge which teaches that, because God knows what every creature would do in any given set of circumstances, He therefore foreknows everything that happens in the world by bringing about all the situations in which creatures act.
Term

       Reformed:

Definition
Another term for the theological tradition known as Calvinism.
Term

      Secondary Cause:

Definition
The properties and actions of created things that bring about events in the world.
Term

 Voluntary Choices:

Definition
 Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will or compulsion against our will.
Term

      Willing Choices:

Definition
Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will.
Term

 Blasphemy Against The Holy Spirit:

Definition
The unusually malicious, willful rejection and slander against the Holy Spirit’ work attesting to Christ, and attributing that work to Satan.
Term

   Filled With The Holy Spirit:

Definition
An event subsequent to conversion in which a believer experiences a fresh infilling with the Holy Spirit that may result in a variety of consequences, including greater love for God, greater victory over sin, greater power for ministry, and sometimes the receiving of new spiritual gifts.
Term

     Holy Spirit:

Definition
One of the three persons of the Trinity whose work it is to manifest the active presence of God in the world, and especially in the church.
Term

   In The Holy Spirit:

Definition
The state of consciously dwelling in an atmosphere of God’s manifested presence.
Term

     Manifestation of God’s Active Presence:

Definition
A description of the work of the Holy Spirit, the member of the Trinity whom Scripture most often represents as being present to do God’s work in the World.
Term

   Baptism By The Holy Spirit:

Definition
A rendering of a phrase also translated “baptism in/with the Holy Spirit. The translation of the Greek preposition en with the word “by” can seem to indicate that the Holy Spirit is the agent doing the baptizing, but the phrase more accurately refers to the Spirit as the element “in” which (or “with” which) believers are “baptized” at conversion.
Term

    Baptism in/with The Holy Spirit:

Definition
 A phrase New Testament authors use to speak of coming into the new covenant power of the Holy Spirit. This would include impartation of new spiritual life (in regeneration), cleansing from sin, a break with the power and love of sin, and empowering for ministry.
Term

     Pentecost:

Definition
A Jewish feast during which, following the ascension of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was poured out in a new covenant fullness and power on the disciples. This day marked the point of transition between the old covenant work and ministry of the Holy Spirit and the new covenant work and ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Term

 New Covenant Experience of the Holy Spirit:

Definition
 The more powerful work of the Holy Spirit in peoples’ lives that began at Pentecost for the disciples and now happens at conversion for believers.
Term

     Old Covenant Experience of the Holy Spirit:

Definition
The less powerful and less extensive work of the Holy Spirit that characterized the old covenant before the day of Pentecost.
Term

    Two-Class Christianity:

Definition
 A view of the church that divided it into two categories of believers, such as ordinary believers versus “sanctified” believers, or ordinary believers versus Spirit-baptized believers.
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