paradigm-pragmatism

Question 1

paradigm

Answer 1

category of thought

Question 2

paradigm shift

Answer 2

the different way of thinking changes ones perspective and thus changes the person’s response/manner

Question 3

parousia

Answer 3

presence

Question 4

pedobaptism

Answer 4

practice of baptizing infants/children who are deemed not old enough to verbalize faith in Christ

Question 5

perseverance of the saints

Answer 5

the saved remain

Question 6

plenary inspiration

Answer 6

late Reformation view of biblical inspiration that holds that God is the ultimate author of the Bible in its entirety

Question 7

pluratism

Answer 7

suggests that there are many paths to and expressions of truth about God and several equally valid means to salvation

Question 8

pneumatology

Answer 8

doctrine dealing with the Holy Spirit

Question 9

postmillenialism

Answer 9

Christ’s second coming will be after the millennium, which will come by the spiritual and moral influence of Christian preaching and teaching in the world

Question 10

postmodernism

Answer 10

rejection of modernist values of objective truths

Question 11

pragmatism

Answer 11

philosophical system that assumes that every truth or idea has practical consequences and that these practical consequences are a critical test of its truthfulness