Glossary Terms 81-100: Called by the Gospel, An Intro to the New Testament

Question 1

Messianic secret

Answer 1

a theme in Mark’s Gospel, particularly Jesus’ repeated injunctions to those he heals to keep quiet about his mighty deeds.

Question 2

Mikveh (pI. mikva’ot)

Answer 2

a stepped pool for Jewish ritual purification rites.

Question 3

Mishnah

Answer 3

the oral Law commenting on the Torah that was put into writing around A.D. 200.

Question 4

Mystery religion

Answer 4

secretive religious practice in the Roman period by which practitioners were joined to the life of the god and in some way reborn.

Question 5

Narrative Christology

Answer 5

Answers the Christological question through a selective presentation of stories about Jesus.

Question 6

Natural knowledge of God

Answer 6

doctrinal term for those things about God revealed in creation; also applied to the sense of right and wrong which God has placed in all people’s hearts.

Question 7

Norm

Answer 7

a rule or standard by which other things are judged; Scripture norms what we believe and teach about God.

Question 8

Now/not yet

Answer 8

phrase used to describe elements of New Testament theology which are now already present and experienced by believers but which are yet to be fully realized. For example, Christ has come and ushered in the kingdom. Yet Christ will come again and bring it to complete fulfillment.

Question 9

Offspring/seed

Answer 9

related to the promise to Abraham and his offspring.

Question 10

Once saved, always saved

Answer 10

the teaching that if people are true believers, they will not and cannot fall away from the faith.

Question 11

Paraclete

Answer 11

the “comforter”; name for the Holy Spirit in the Fourth Gospel; also used for Jesus in the Johannine epistles.

Question 12

Parable

Answer 12

stories told by” Jesus using common metaphors to describe what “the kingdom of God is like.

Question 13

Parousia

Answer 13

means “presence” or “appearing”; drawn from its use of the arrival of a Roman emperor or other dignitary, it came to be a technical term for the second coming of Christ.

Question 14

Passover

Answer 14

Jewish pilgrimage festival at the beginning of the wheat harvest commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.

Question 15

Pastoral Epistles

Answer 15

1 Timothy, Titus, and 2 Timothy.

Question 16

Pax Romana

Answer 16

“the peace of Rome”; used to describe the stability, law, and order of the Roman Empire from the time when Augustus (Octavian) secured control of the empire in 31 B. C.

Question 17

Pentateuch

Answer 17

the first five book of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy); see Torah.

Question 18

Pharisee

Answer 18

a Jewish sect that emphasized strict observance of the Torah, especially its purity regulations.

Question 19

Plenary (inspiration)

Answer 19

all of the Scriptures are from God, not just certain sections or teachings.

Question 20

Predestination

Answer 20

term the New Testament uses to assure believers that God had chosen them before time began.