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Evangelical Theology
Final Exam
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Bible Studies
Undergraduate 3
12/09/2009

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Dog and Dogness
Definition
The idea of Dogness, is the idea of what we see is not totally real, it is more like a shadow.
Term
Parousia
Definition
Appearing or coming
Term
What is heaven?
Definition
•Lewis asked the question “would there be books in heaven”
Only those that we gave away in this life
The fingerprints would become beautiful pictures within the book
•A Dance
•Eternal morning - Pilgrims Regress
Term
Purgatory
Definition
Olson thinks that it’s not outside the Great Tradition to believe in Purgatory.
Purgatory is a dependable think in evangelical theology because they believe what they want to believe.
Term
Sheol
Definition
•In Hebrew it means grave.
•Place were dead gathered.
•The dead were thought to lead a conscious shadowy existence there, they were not in torment, but had neither hope nor satisfaction. Some thought they remained cut off from God.
Term
Gehennais
Definition
Place where evil people go in the afterlife.
Term
Annihilationsism
Definition
Christian doctrine that sinners are destroyed and annihilated rather than tormented forever in "hell" or the lake of fire.
Term
Paradise
Definition
Intermediary holy place
Term
In between
Definition
•Paradise
•Purgatory
•Soul sleep
•Form of bodily judgement
Term
Soul sleep
Definition
There is no place that we go, we’ll fall sleep
Term
Futurism
Definition
Assumes most or all of the symbols and images of Biblical apocalyptic literature refer to realities still in the future.
Term
Preterism
Definition
All or most as already fulfilled for us even if the fulfillment was future for the visionary and his first readers.
Term
Historicism
Definition
Symbols and images as codes for persons, entities and events contemporary with the apocalypticists.
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Premillennialism
Definition
•Christ will return visibly to the earth at the end of this present age.
•Reign of Christ on earth after the parousia and before the new heaven and new earth
•Some believe in a secret rapture
•The Kingdom of God come to earth
•Left Behind!
Term
Postmillennialism
Definition
•Belief in an actual Kingdom of God on earth before Christ’s second coming
•Christianization of the world order prior to the parousia
•Very optimistic view of the trajectory of the Kingdom of God
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Amillennialism
Definition
•No earthly Kingdom of God – social or political
•Believes that the millennial reign refers to the time between the first and second advent of Christ
•Judgment and recreation happen after the parousia
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