Having the authority and sanction of the apostles. To indicate the essential continuity of the church with apostolic teaching. 

Final restoration of all things. Restored to a loving unity with God.

It is a mark of the church along with one, holy, and apostolic.

Individual represents the community and that the community is summed up in the individual.

God’s declaring a sinful person to be “just” on the basis of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. God’s peace and salvation.

Liturgical Worship

worship according to the prescribed forms in contrast to that which does not follow a formed structure.

Kerygma

Centered God’s saving actions in the life, death and resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Faith and conversion are responses to the gospel.

Memoralism

Lord’s Supper is commemorative of Jesus Christ and that there is no “real presence” of Jesus Christ in any form other than a symbolic sense.

Mortification

Subduing or putting to death of the life of sin through repentance.

Mystical Body

image of the church as the body of Christ and mystery through which God’s purposes of redemption through Christ are being achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit. 

Parousia

coming of Christ, usually the second coming.

Pelagianism

totally free human will to do the good and held that divine grace was bestowed in relation to human merit.

God’s actions in willing something to a specific result. God’s eternal decree by which all creatures are foreordained to eternal life or death. God’s gracious initiation of salvation for those who believe in Jesus Christ. 

“making divine” Salvation from sin consisted of the process of deification, through which believers become united with Christ’s divine nature and thus with God.

human works can have a status before God and can contribute either fully or partially toward salvation.