Theology - Vocab 9

Question 0

Denomination

Answer 0

Church that agrees on doctrine, ethics, and organization and unite

Question 1

Demon

Answer 1

Fallen angel

Question 2

Depravity

Answer 2

Ruined relationship between God and man, inborn tendency towards sin

Question 3

Determination

Answer 3

Any theory that sees all events, including human behavior, as the necessary result of prior causes

Question 4

Diaspora

Answer 4

A Greek term originally meaning “the dispersed or scattered ones”

Question 5

Dichotomy

Answer 5

A division of items into two mutually exclusive categories

Question 6

Dispensationalism

Answer 6

Dispensations, church and Israel are distinct, rapture, millennial kingdom

Question 7

Doctrine

Answer 7

A theological formulation that attempts to provide a summary statement of the teaching of Scripture on a particular theological topic

Question 8

Documentary hypothesis

Answer 8

Known as the JEDP theory suggested that the Pentateuch was actually a compilation of the work of at least four separate sources

Question 9

Dogma

Answer 9

In Protestant circles dogma is nearly synonymous to doctrine. In Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox circle dogmas are the officially accepted teaching of the church