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RE 317 > Midterm Vocabulary > Flashcards

Midterm Vocabulary Flashcards

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Theology

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The study of Scripture and tradition in a situation for a community of believers

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Ethical spirituality

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When faith helps shape a person’s understanding of the world around them and gives their life good moral direction

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Supersessionism

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New covenant through Jesus supersedes covenant through Moses exclusive to Jews; Replacement/Fulfillment Theology

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Orthodox

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“correct teaching”

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Heresy

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What a group/individual decides is not orthodox

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Docetism

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Christ’s body was not real, he just appeared to be human

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Marcionism

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Christianity is a clear separation from Judaism; worship two different gods

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Montanism

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Endorses direct experiences with Holy Spirit, not requiring church officials or teaching

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Gnosticism

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A secrete knowledge was brought to earth, and if revealed to humans, they could learn how to free their souls from their evil bodies

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Heterodoxy

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Different teaching; not heresy all the time

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Asceticism

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Denying all physical pleasure and desires

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Libertinism

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Disobeying God’s OT laws and indulging human wishes without a limit

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Apatheia

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“Without passion”

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Apology

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Defending Christianity to outsiders

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Hypostasis

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The state that makes something what it is

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Ousia

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“Substance”

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Homoousia

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From the same substance

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Homoiousia

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From a similar substance

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Theotokos

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Mary as bearer of God

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Monophysite

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Person who believes Jesus has only one nature, wholly divine or only human

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Manicheanism

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Taught dualistic struggle between good spiritual world and evil material world

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Platonism

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Plato; Abstract objects exist

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Concupiscence

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Strong desire or lust

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Pelagianism

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Denial of original sin and predestination; defense of innate human goodness and free will

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Nominalism

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Universals and abstract objects do not exist outside of a name

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Mysticism

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Anyone can experience God without the church as an intermediary

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Simony

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Buying or selling of something spiritual

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Anchorite

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Religious recluse

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Recluse

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Solitary lifesyle

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Tertiary

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Attached to a covenant that does require religious vows

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palpal bull

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public decree issued by the pope

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natural law

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humankind’s rational participation in God’s eternal law (Aquinas)

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Sacrament

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visible sign of invisible grace granted to us from God

34
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Nicene Creed

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established how Christians can worship one God and claim he is three persons

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