Fall-Glorification Flashcards
Fideism
the view that matters of religious and theological truth must be accepted by faith from the exercise of reason
Fall
the event in which Adam & Eve, the first humans, disobeyed the explicit command of God, thereby bringing sin and death onto the human race
Filioque
Latin term literally meaning “and the Son” became significant because of it’s addition to the description of the Holy Spirit in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
Five Ways
Five rational arguments that Thomas Aquinas saw as pointing to the existence of God:
- motion - cosmological - contingency - perfection - teleological
Foreknowledge
Biblical term from the Greek proanosis that literally means “to know in advance”
Free will
the belief that human behavior is self-caused
Fundamentalism
A movement in North America during the early part of the twentieth century that attempted to maintain a firm commitment to certain “fundamentals” of the Christian faith
General revelation
a term used to declare that god reveals something about the divine nature through the created order
genre
a term that refers to different types or varies of literature or media
glorification
the last stage in the process of salvation, namely, the resurrection of the body at the second coming of Jesus Christ