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Vocab Flashcards

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Accommodation

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God limits or accommodates himself to our capacity in revealing himself

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Adoptionism:

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Christ was a human being who was ‘adopted’ as God’s Son

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Agape

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love feast held by early Christians (Jude 12)

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Amillennialism

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doctrine that there is to be no literal millennium

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Analogy

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God loves, is good, is father, etc., in a way that is similar but not identical to us

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Annihilation(ism)

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doctrine that the ultimate fate of the lost is annihilation or extinction

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Anthropology

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doctrine of humanity

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Anthropomorphism

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speaking of God in human terms

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Antinomianism

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doctrine that Christians can live as they like with no reference to law

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Apophatic

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the ‘negative’ way of speaking about God by saying what he is not

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Apostasy/apostate

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renouncing one’s faith/one who does this

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Asceticism

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leading a life of voluntary austerity — celibacy, poverty, etc.

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Cataphatic

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the ‘positive’ way of speaking about God by saying what he is

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Christology

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doctrine of the person of Christ

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Compatibilist free will

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is compatible with being predictable — e.g. God is always good

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Concursus

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‘running together’, of the relation between divine & human authorship of Bible

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Contextualization

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seeking to translate the biblical message into a different context/culture

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Credobaptism

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the doctrine that only conscious believers may be baptised

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Deification

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the doctrine that God enables us to partake in his divine nature (2 Pet 1:4)

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Deism

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the doctrine that God created the universe then left it to run on its own

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Demiurge

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Greek philosophical term for one who creates universe from existing materials

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Dichotomy

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[of human nature] the doctrine that we are twofold — body and soul

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Docetism

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doctrine that Christ only appeared to have a body/suffer/be human

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Dualism

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with reference to human nature, see dichotomy

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Ecclesiology

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doctrine of the Church

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Efficacious grace

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grace that infallibly achieves the result of winning us round

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Emanation

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doctrine that creation is an overflow of God’s being and therefore itself divine

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Entire sanctification

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Wesleyan doctrine that we can achieve perfection in this life

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Eschatology

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doctrine of the End times

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Exegesis

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the scholarly interpretation of the original meaning of a text

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Ex nihilo

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doctrine that God created the universe ‘out of nothing’

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Filioque

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Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father ‘and from the Son’ (‘filioque’ in Latin)

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Incarnation

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doctrine that Jesus is the eternal Word of God become flesh (John 1:14)

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Inerrant

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Bible contains no errors at all

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Infallible

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Bible’s reliability does not extend to matters like science or historical details

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Initiation

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the process of becoming a Christian

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Intermediate state

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the state of the faithful departed between death and the Parousia

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Invisible church

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doctrine that the true boundaries of the Church are known only to God

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Irresistible grace

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Calvinist term used to describe efficacious grace…efficacious grace does not necessitate the will or destroy human freedom. (Etym. powerful, effective, efficient, favour freely given.)

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Justification

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acquittal, not-guilty declaration, reckoning of us as righteous

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Legalism

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belief that we need to earn our acceptance by works of the law

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Libertarian free will

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free will which is unpredictable

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Millennium

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thousand-year reign of Christ on earth, as in Rev 20:1-6

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Monism

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with reference to human nature, view that soul doesn’t exist separately from body

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Natural theology

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theology based on nature and reason, without special revelation

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Original sin

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the bias towards sin (and guilt) with which we are born

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Pantheism

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the doctrine that identifies God with the universe

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Paedobaptism

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the doctrine that babies are to be baptised

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Parousia

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the ‘presence’ or ‘arrival’ of Jesus Christ, his ‘Second Coming’

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Penal substitution

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the doctrine that Christ on the cross bore our punishment in our place

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Penance

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discipline that follows committing a serious sin as a Christian

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Perseverance

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endurance in the Christian way to the end of life

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Perseverance of the saints

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doctrine that God preserves all true Christians from apostasy (desertion of the faith)

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Pluralism

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no one religion can claim uniqueness and finality

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Pneumatology

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doctrine of Holy Spirit

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Postmillennialism

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doctrine that Christ will return after (post) the millennium

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Premillennialism

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doctrine that Christ will return before (pre) the millennium

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Prevenient grace

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inner working of the Holy Spirit that draws us to faith in Christ

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Primary cause

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idea that God’s will is the ultimate cause of what happens

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Providence

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God’s rule/control of human history, working out his purposes

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Purgatory

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purification from and/or punishment for sin, between death and final salvation

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Recapitulation

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Christ sums up the human race and introduces new redeemed humanity

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Regeneration

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being ‘born again’

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Revelation

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God’s revealing himself/making himself known to his people

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Rigorism

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those guilty of serious sin should be permanently excluded from church

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Sabellianism

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doctrine that Father = Son = Holy Spirit — three manifestations of one God

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Sacraments

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baptism and Lord’s Supper — divinely instituted effective signs

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Sanctification

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God’s work delivering us from sin and making us like Christ

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Schism

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A split in the church leading to a breakaway group

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Secondary cause

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immediate cause (human choices, etc.) of that which God purposes

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Second blessing

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a specific blessing after conversion that should be sought by all Christians

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Sectarian

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an approach to the church which seeks purity at the price of divisions

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Secularization

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the process by which religion loses its dominant role in society

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Sola fide

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we are justified ‘by faith alone’

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Soteriology

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doctrine of salvation

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Special revelation

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specifically Judaeo-Christian revelation — as in OT, NT, Christ

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Syncretism

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mixing together two or more religions

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Theodicy

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‘the justification of God’ in the light of evil and suffering

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Theotokos

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‘Mother of God’ — the baby born of Mary was God the Son, made flesh

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Tradition

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our Christian heritage, the Christian faith as handed down from the past

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Trichotomy

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[of human nature] the doctrine that we are threefold — body, soul and spirit

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Universalism

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doctrine that all will be saved, regardless of what they do

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Verbal inspiration

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doctrine that it is the actual text of Scripture that is inspired by God

Intro Doctrine Technical Terms (1 decks)

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