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Doctrine 1-3 Midterm
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02/03/2015

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Theology
Definition

Is challenging & difficult

a new language

Basis of our pastoral ministry.

 

Theos - God  /   Logos - Study/reason/word/treatise

 

Study of God / an account or teaching about God & his dealings with humankind and the universe.

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Christian Theology
Definition

systematic way of talking about God's word

 

Every Christian is a theologian.

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Orthodoxy
Definition

Orthos - straight  / Doxos - thinking

Straight thinking based on the Bible

Right/Straight thinking about the Bible

 

Reformative

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Orthopathy
Definition

straight feelings

 

Pentecostal

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Orthopraxy
Definition

straight/right actions/practices

Living out your faith

 

Salvationists / Liberationists

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Heresy
Definition

belief that contradicts orthodoxy significantly

 

any teaching rejected by the Christian community as contrary to universal doctrine

 

not generally used for non-christians, reserved for any belief that claims to be Christian, but rejected by the church

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Doctrine
Definition

Teaching

 

we mean - Principle which is accepted as valid/true (ortho)

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Sola Scriptura
Definition

Only Scripture

The Bible is the only

soloe (plural) alone, only; source of teaching

 

Bible contains all knowledge for holiness; scripture interprets scripture.

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Sola Fide
Definition
Only faith.
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Sola gratia
Definition
Only grace or by grace alone
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Sola Christus
Definition
Christ alone
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Soli deo gloria
Definition
Glory to God alone
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Revelation
Definition

reveal; uncover

 

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Pantheism
Definition
everything is God
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Panentheism
Definition

God is in everything.

 

St. Francis (2nd book of God = Nature)

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Special revelation
Definition

salvation history

incarnation of Jesus

 

God's divine self-revelation

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Progressive Revelation
Definition
an expansion & deeper understanding of a previous revelation
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Theopneustos
Definition

God breathed

 

Theo - God / pneo  - breathes, to breathe

 

Holy Spirit (Pnema) - breath, wind

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Mechanical / Dictation
Definition

God gave the exact words of Scripture to the writers who wrote it word for word

 

(secretaries; armaneusis) 

 

Doesn't account for the variety of styles in the Scriptures.

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Intuition
Definition
natural insight of humans lifted to a higher place to write the scriptures; no God breathing. Their own understanding.
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Dynamic
Definition

Divine & Human

 

direct dictation but uses their own style and personality; unique. The Spirit gives the thoughts

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Canon
Definition
straight rod/measuring rod; list; books that comprise the Bible (what Christianity is measured by)
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Septuagint (LXX)
Definition
 Koine Greek version of the Bible
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Total Inerrancy
Definition
every word, completely free from error (not Wesleyan); autographs free from error; the original is error free
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Infallible
Definition

scripture related to faith & practice are without error such as salvation

consequently matters of faith are without error

may have been miscopied when rewrote, but the basis is there

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Tetragrammaton
Definition

(YHWH)

 

Adonai (Lord)

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Transcendent
Definition

stands above the entire universe - "out there"

 

outside his creation, separate from creation

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Immanent
Definition

right here, personal, among us, relationship with intimacy, thinking, and feeling.

Intelligent

Most Intelligent

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Immutable
Definition

Unchanging

 

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Omnipotent
Definition

Omni - All / potent - power

all powerful

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Omniscient
Definition

Omni - all / scient - knowing

knowing everything, no mistery

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Omnipresent
Definition

Omni - all / present - present

everywhere & nowhere

is in all places at all times

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eternal
Definition
no beginning and no end
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sovereign
Definition
Lord & supreme governor of our life
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Holy
Definition

marked off/ separate

devoted

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Just
Definition
fair, no favoritism, cannot be evaluated on a short term scale
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benevolence
Definition
unselfish concern
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grace
Definition
undeserved
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Incommunicable
Definition
they only apply to God
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Communicable
Definition
God allows them to be 'shared'
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ousia
Definition
being / essence
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essentia
Definition
being/essence
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hypostasis
Definition
coequalness/ persons
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persona
Definition
persons
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Modalism (Sabellianism)
Definition
God wears 3 masks, and puts on the one that applies at a particular time.
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Subordinationism
Definition
God is king above Jesus & the Holy Spirit; God is over them
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Adoptionism
Definition
God adopted Christ at the transfiguration
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Arianism
Definition
Jesus was a special person
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Social analogy
Definition
God's unity lies in community formed by love
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Physical Analogy
Definition

Water - 3 forms

3 leaf clover

egg - 3 parts

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faith
Definition
as used in the New Testament, faith can refer tto either a person's assent and trust in another or the content that a person assents to and trusts in.
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Qur'an
Definition
the sacred text of Islam, containing the teachings and commands for those of the Muslim faith.  It purportedly contains the teachings of Muhammad, the founding prophet of Islam. Muslims consider the Qur'an to be the perfect word of Allah (God).
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Bhagavad Gita
Definition
A central sacred text of Hinduism that contains philosophical dialogue between the god Krishna an dthe warrior Arjuna. Matters pertaining to Hindu ethics, philosophy, and personal devotion are discussed.
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Book of Mormon
Definition
A central sacred text of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The claim is that the Bible was a record of God's dealings with people in one region of the world, while the Book of Mormon is a record of God's dealings with the people of the Americas. Joseph Smith is said to have received a visit from the angel Moroni, who led Smith to an ancient record preserved on gold plates buried in a hill near Smith's home. The plates were then said to be supernaturally translated (from "reformed Egyptian") into English by Smith and published in 1830.
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Neo-orthodoxy
Definition
Beginning with Karl Barth in the early twentieth century, this school of thought saw itself as a mediating response to the modern split between liberals and fundamentalists. Neo-orthodox theologians affirmed that the Word of God is an event that takes place when Jesus Christ, as witnessed to in the Bible, is proclaimed. But unlike evangelicals, they denied that the Bible is the Word of God in and of itself.
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Heilsgeschichte ("salvation history")
Definition
A german word meaning "salvation history". Some contemporary theologians argue that the locus of revelation is found in God's mighty deeds in history, centered on teh resurrection of Jesus Christ, not in the words of the Bible.
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infallible
Definition
The belief that, while the Bible may contain errors regarding irrelevant matters when judged by modern standards, it cannot fail to accomplish what God intends it to accomplish.
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inerrancy
Definition
The belief that the Bible contains no errors of any kind.
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autographs
Definition
The original handwritten documents.
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Textual criticism
Definition
As applied to Scripture, this is the discipline of critically examining existing copies of the Bible to determine the most likely original wording of the biblical authors.
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epistemology
Definition
Having to do with how we know what we know.
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phenomenology
Definition
A way of thinking that proceeds from the basis of descriptions of actual events in scientific observations. This approach is inherently dependant on experience.
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Leviathan
Definition
A mythological monster that ancient Near Eastern people (Including the Israelites) believed inhabited the waters tat circled the earth (though a minority of evangelical scholars think it refers to an actual creature.) This is a way ancient people depicted forces of evil that threated the earth, Old Testament authors emphasized that Yahweh was able to be victorious over Leviathan.
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Rahab
Definition
Like Leviathan, Rahab is an ancient way in which the Bible portrays evil and chaos as cosmic forces against God.
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Synoptic Gospels
Definition
Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the Synoptic Gospels because they each provide similar summaries (or synopses) of the life of Christ.
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a priori
Definition
Deductive reasoning from an assumed premise to a necessary conclusion.
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polytheism
Definition
The acknowledgement and worship of more than one god.
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materialism
Definition
The belif that matter is all that exists, Hence, this view holds that all events are ultimately explainable on the basis of physical ("matter") cause-effect relations. Chemistry, physics, biology, and the other hard sciences are looked to for the most adequate explanation for any given problem.
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fate
Definition
The pagan notion that the future is fixed by impersonal forces. Christians have always affirmed that God, not fate, governs the flow of history, (Whether humans and/ or angels by use of their free will have the power to affect this flow in ways God may not desire is disputed.)
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process theology
Definition
This school of philosophical theology holds that God aned the world are two coeternal realities that are eternally in the process of enriching each other. Process theology denies many of the classical attributes of God. Most problematic for evangelicals is its denail of omnipotence, creation out of nothing, and a final consummation of all things in the end-times.
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Manichaeism
Definition
A popular religious movement in the fourth and fifth centuries that taught that there were two equal but opposite gods in the world, one good, the other evil. Before converting to Christianity, St. Augustine, arguably the most influential theologian in church history, was a Manichaean.
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providence
Definition
God's governing of the universe. Some evangelicals hold that God's providence is meticulous-he governs each and every dtail, Others hold that it is more general-he controls the "big picture" but gives humans freedom to make their own choices.
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compatibilism
Definition
The belief that freedom of the human will is compatible with the all-determining power of God.
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incompatibilism
Definition
The belief that true human freedom is not consistent with the belief that God determines all things.
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self-determination
Definition
The ability of a person to determine freely his or her own course of action and to move toward becoming a certain kind of person. Arminians hold that people are self-determining, Calvinists hold that God ultimately determines all things.
Term
freewill defense
Definition
The belief that explains the presence of evil in the world by appealing to that free will of humans and angels. Because agents are free, they sometimes make decisions that are against God's will and are thus evil.
Term
Muslims
Definition
One who believes in the Islamic faith, Muslims regard Muhammad as Allah's (God's) final prophet and the Qur'an as Allah's final and perfect revelation.
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theists
Definition
People who believe in a personal God.
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secular humanists
Definition
People who believe that human welfare is the ultimate good and that humans have the power and responsibility to determine their own future.
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New Age
Definition
A contemporary movement that incorporates elements of Eastern mysticism, superstition, as well as pagan and occult beliefs.
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foreknowledge
Definition
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