definitions

Question 1

faith

Answer 1

voluntary commitment to a belief without the need for complete evidence to support it

Question 2

empiricism

Answer 2

the idea that knowledge is based on sense experience of the physical world

Question 3

natural theology

Answer 3

knowledge of God based on reason

Question 4

protestantism

Answer 4

a form of christianity which rejects authority of the catholic church, places greater emphasis on the bible and personal faith

Question 5

revelation

Answer 5

a divine experience, God revealing himself

Question 6

immediate revelation

Answer 6

God directly revealing himself

Question 7

mediate revelation

Answer 7

gaining knowledge of God indirectly

Question 8

grace of God

Answer 8

God’s undeserved love for humanity

Question 9

wisdom literature

Answer 9

a genre of writing from the ancient world, teaching wisdom and virtue

Question 10

revealed theology

Answer 10

learning God through religion

Question 11

sensus divinitatus

Answer 11

inbuilt sense of divine

Question 12

point of contact

Answer 12

something a person does to release his faith

Question 13

si interger stetisset Adam

Answer 13

Adam and Eve sinned and fell from grace

Question 14

duplex cognito domini

Answer 14

god is a creator and redeemer

Question 15

principle of accommodation

Answer 15

God being unreachable but has communicated with humanity

Question 16

process theology

Answer 16

Idea that God hasn’t got control over the universe

Question 17

regeneration

Answer 17

the process of renewal, starting point of spiritual growth

Question 18

trinitarian view of God

Answer 18

God exists as 3 persons but is one being

Question 19

immanence

Answer 19

being knowable and present

Question 20

reformed epistemology

Answer 20

belief that knowledge of God is a ‘properly basic’ belief

Question 21

fideism

Answer 21

the idea that revelation is necessary for humans to know about God with certainty