Chapter 16 Flashcards
Arminian
A theological tradition that seeks to preserve the free choices of human beings and denies God’s provedential control over the details of all events.
Calvinist
A theological tradition named after the sixteenth-century French reformer John Calvin (1509-64) that emphasized the sovereignty of God in all things, man’s inability to do spiritual good before God, and the Glory of God as the highest en of all that occurs.
Concurrence
An aspect of God’s providence whereby he cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do.
Decrees of God
The eternal plans of God whereby, before the creation of the world, he determined to bring about everything that happens.
Free choices
Choices made according to our free will
Free will
(1) With respect to God: all things God has decided to will, but had no neccessity to will according to his nature. (2) With respect to Man: the ability to make willing choices that have real effects (however, other people define as the ability to make choices that are not determined by God.)
Government
An aspect of God’s providence that indicates that God has a purpose in all that he does in the world and he provedentially governs or directs all things in order that they accomplish his purposes.
Middle knowledge
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 the situations in which all creatures act.
Preservation
An aspect of God’s providence whereby he keeps all created things existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them.
Primary cause
The devine invisible, directing cause of everything that happens.
Providence
The doctrine that God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) he keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them, (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do: and (3) directs them to fulfill his purposes.
Reformed
Another term for a theological tradition known as Calvinisim.
Secondary cause
The properties and actions of created things that bring about event sin the world.
Voluntary choices
Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will or compulsion against our will.
Willing choices
Choices that are made in accord with our desires, with no awareness of restraints on our will.
