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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
doctrine of the Church
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Efficacious grace
grace that infallibly achieves the result of winning us round
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Emanation
doctrine that creation is an overflow of God’s being and therefore itself divine
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Entire sanctification
Wesleyan doctrine that we can achieve perfection in this life
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Eschatology
doctrine of the End times
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Exegesis
the scholarly interpretation of the original meaning of a text
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Ex nihilo
doctrine that God created the universe ‘out of nothing’
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Filioque
Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father ‘and from the Son’ (‘filioque’ in Latin)
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Incarnation
doctrine that Jesus is the eternal Word of God become flesh (John 1:14)
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Inerrant
Bible contains no errors at all
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Infallible
Bible’s reliability does not extend to matters like science or historical details
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Initiation
the process of becoming a Christian
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Intermediate state
the state of the faithful departed between death and the Parousia
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Invisible church
doctrine that the true boundaries of the Church are known only to God
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Irresistible grace
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
acquittal, not-guilty declaration, reckoning of us as righteous
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Legalism
belief that we need to earn our acceptance by works of the law
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Libertarian free will
free will which is unpredictable
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Millennium
thousand-year reign of Christ on earth, as in Rev 20:1-6
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Monism
with reference to human nature, view that soul doesn’t exist separately from body
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Natural theology
theology based on nature and reason, without special revelation
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Original sin
the bias towards sin (and guilt) with which we are born
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Pantheism
the doctrine that identifies God with the universe
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Paedobaptism
the doctrine that babies are to be baptised
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Parousia
the ‘presence’ or ‘arrival’ of Jesus Christ, his ‘Second Coming’
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Penal substitution
the doctrine that Christ on the cross bore our punishment in our place
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Penance
discipline that follows committing a serious sin as a Christian
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Perseverance
endurance in the Christian way to the end of life
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Perseverance of the saints
doctrine that God preserves all true Christians from apostasy (desertion of the faith)
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Pluralism
no one religion can claim uniqueness and finality
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Pneumatology
doctrine of Holy Spirit
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Postmillennialism
doctrine that Christ will return after (post) the millennium
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Premillennialism
doctrine that Christ will return before (pre) the millennium
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Prevenient grace
inner working of the Holy Spirit that draws us to faith in Christ
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Primary cause
idea that God’s will is the ultimate cause of what happens
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Providence
God’s rule/control of human history, working out his purposes
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Purgatory
purification from and/or punishment for sin, between death and final salvation
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Recapitulation
Christ sums up the human race and introduces new redeemed humanity
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Regeneration
being ‘born again’
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Revelation
God’s revealing himself/making himself known to his people
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Rigorism
those guilty of serious sin should be permanently excluded from church
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Sabellianism
doctrine that Father = Son = Holy Spirit — three manifestations of one God
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Sacraments
baptism and Lord’s Supper — divinely instituted effective signs
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Sanctification
God’s work delivering us from sin and making us like Christ
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Schism
A split in the church leading to a breakaway group
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Secondary cause
immediate cause (human choices, etc.) of that which God purposes
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Second blessing
a specific blessing after conversion that should be sought by all Christians
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Sectarian
an approach to the church which seeks purity at the price of divisions
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Secularization
the process by which religion loses its dominant role in society
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Sola fide
we are justified ‘by faith alone’
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Soteriology
doctrine of salvation
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Special revelation
specifically Judaeo-Christian revelation — as in OT, NT, Christ
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Syncretism
mixing together two or more religions
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Theodicy
‘the justification of God’ in the light of evil and suffering
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Theotokos
‘Mother of God’ — the baby born of Mary was God the Son, made flesh
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Tradition
our Christian heritage, the Christian faith as handed down from the past
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Trichotomy
[of human nature] the doctrine that we are threefold — body, soul and spirit
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Universalism
doctrine that all will be saved, regardless of what they do
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Verbal inspiration
doctrine that it is the actual text of Scripture that is inspired by God

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