First ten words

Question 1

a posteriori, a priori

Answer 1

Terms used to refer to whether an assertion is dependent on experience (a posteriori) or independent of experience (a priori)

Question 2

accommodation

Answer 2

Speaks of God making Himself known to humans in words and ways suitable for the finite human mind to comprehend

Question 3

adoption

Answer 3

God’s act of making otherwise estranged human beings part of God’s spiritual family by including them as ineritors of the riches of divine glory

Question 4

advent

Answer 4

Literally meaning “coming” or “arrival”, this term refers to the coming of Jesus Christ to earth

Question 5

aesthetics

Answer 5

The area of philosophy formally concerned with defining the nature of beauty

Question 6

agnosticism

Answer 6

Literally, “no knowledge”

Question 7

Alexandrian School

Answer 7

Although the Bible was literally true, its correct interpretation lay in the moral or allegorical senses more than in the literal sense.

Question 8

allegory

Answer 8

a “hidden”, “higher”, or “deeper” meaning

Question 9

amillennialism

Answer 9

The belief that the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 do not represent a specific period of time between Christ’s first and second coming

Question 10

analogy of being

Answer 10

God can be seen in creation