Midterm Vocabulary Flashcards
Theology
The study of Scripture and tradition in a situation for a community of believers
Ethical spirituality
When faith helps shape a person’s understanding of the world around them and gives their life good moral direction
Supersessionism
New covenant through Jesus supersedes covenant through Moses exclusive to Jews; Replacement/Fulfillment Theology
Orthodox
“correct teaching”
Heresy
What a group/individual decides is not orthodox
Docetism
Christ’s body was not real, he just appeared to be human
Marcionism
Christianity is a clear separation from Judaism; worship two different gods
Montanism
Endorses direct experiences with Holy Spirit, not requiring church officials or teaching
Gnosticism
A secrete knowledge was brought to earth, and if revealed to humans, they could learn how to free their souls from their evil bodies
Heterodoxy
Different teaching; not heresy all the time
Asceticism
Denying all physical pleasure and desires
Libertinism
Disobeying God’s OT laws and indulging human wishes without a limit
Apatheia
“Without passion”
Apology
Defending Christianity to outsiders
Hypostasis
The state that makes something what it is
Ousia
“Substance”
Homoousia
From the same substance
Homoiousia
From a similar substance
Theotokos
Mary as bearer of God
Monophysite
Person who believes Jesus has only one nature, wholly divine or only human
Manicheanism
Taught dualistic struggle between good spiritual world and evil material world
Platonism
Plato; Abstract objects exist
Concupiscence
Strong desire or lust
Pelagianism
Denial of original sin and predestination; defense of innate human goodness and free will
Nominalism
Universals and abstract objects do not exist outside of a name
Mysticism
Anyone can experience God without the church as an intermediary
Simony
Buying or selling of something spiritual
Anchorite
Religious recluse
Recluse
Solitary lifesyle
Tertiary
Attached to a covenant that does require religious vows
palpal bull
public decree issued by the pope
natural law
humankind’s rational participation in God’s eternal law (Aquinas)
Sacrament
visible sign of invisible grace granted to us from God
Nicene Creed
established how Christians can worship one God and claim he is three persons
