Theology - Vocab 1

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 inheritors 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

Alexandrian theologians taught that 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

“hidden”, “higher”, “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

the argument that there is sufficient similarity between God and creation so that observation of the universe will yield a limited understanding of God’s nature