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Analogia entis

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The analogy of being - the assumption of an analogy or likeness between finite and infinite being. Is used for a proof for the existence of God from Thomas Aquinas.

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Anthropomorphos

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Figurative language in Scripture which seems to predicate human attributes of God.

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Anthropopatheia

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Figuratively predicating human feelings, affections, emotions, and passions to God

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Aseitas

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To have being from ones self - God is the only being that has existence in himself. All other beings have their being from God.

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Attributa Divina

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The divine attributes are the essence of God Himself. God is not a composite being, the attributes are not parts of God. The attributes are identical with existence of God. Examples include: simplicity, omnipotence, immutability, etc.

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Concursus

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The continual divine support of the operation of all secondary causes whether free, contingent, or necessary. For any contingent being to act in a feee, contingent , or necessary manner, the divine will, which supports all contingent being, must concur in its act.

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Ens a se

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Being from itself - self-existent, necessary, non-contingent being, which is God alone.

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Ex nihilo

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Out of nothing - referring to the creation of the universe in which God created it from nothing preexistent and therefore eternal materials.

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Ex nihilo nihil fit

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From nothing, nothing comes - in the finite, nothing can be created out of nothing, this is the limit of natural reason. This is not to say that nothingness created nothing, but only that God created out of nothing.

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Heteroousios

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Different essence - Jesus being a different essence from The Father.

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Homoiousios

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Of like substance - used by the non-Athanasians, non-Arian party that sought to avoid the radical distinctions of the Arians without fully admitting that Jesus was the same essence as the father.

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Homoousios

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Same substance - against the Arian distinctions referring to the Godhead that there are three distinct essences, homoousios affirms they are all one essence.

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Immutabilitas

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Immutability is referring to God in that he does not change or have any mutation whatsoever.

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Impassibilitas

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The divine attribute that God is not given to passions like a man or that he can lose control of himself.

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Infra Lapsum

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In reference to the logical order of the divine decree in that redemption was decreed after or below the fall in a list of the decrees.

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Ominoptentia

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The attribute of God that he is all powerful and that can do all things that are not contrary to his will or his knowledge.

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Omnipresentia

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The divine attribute of God that his every present at all times unbound by space or measure.

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Omnisapientia

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The divine attribute of God that he has all wisdom and is all wise.

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Omniscientia

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The divine attribute that God had all knowledge and is all knowing. God knows all things, all events, and all circumstances immediately and perfectly in his timeless eternity.

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Opera Dei

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Referring to the works of God - usually referring to the creation and the providential preservation of creation.

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Opera Dei ad extra

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The outward external works of God - referring to the divine activities in which he creates, sustained, and otherwise relates to all finite things. This includes the work of grace and salvation.

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Opera Dei ad intra

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Opera ad intra

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Trinitas

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The existence of God as one essence and three persons.

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Theism

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The philosophical or theological doctrine of a personal And provident God.

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Atheism

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The belief that God does not exist.

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Polytheism

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The belief that multiple gods exist.

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Panentheism

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The belief that the world is God in part, though not the whole of His being.

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Pantheism

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Any variation of the view that all things are divine, or that God and the universe are really identical.

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Metaphysics

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The science of the absolutely first principles of being; the science of being as such.

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Epistemology

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The theory of knowledge.

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Hylemorphism

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The theory that all natural bodies are comprised of matter and form.

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Subsistentia

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Subsistence - indicating a particular being or existent; it is the Latin equivalent of hypostasis and is used to indicate the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Trinity.

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Substantia

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Substance - a substance is an individual thing that is either material or spiritual.

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Subordinationism

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The belief that the Son and the Holy Spirit are subordinate to the Father in nature and Being.

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Middle knowledge

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From Molinism - The knowledge God has of all possible free human choices and their outcomes. This knowledge is between his necessary and free knowledge.

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Election

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God’s choice of those whom he absolutely wills to be saved.

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Reprobation

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The eternal decree of God in which he wills to leave certain individuals in their corrupt state, and to damn them because of their sin.

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Primary Cause

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God as the cause of all things who is himself the uncaused cause and necessary being who sets in motion all contingent causes.

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Sceintia Dei

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The knowledge of God - the divine attribute of God that he knows himself and all his works perfectly.

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Secondary cause

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Distinct from and subordinate to the primary cause. It is the belief that God does not act immediately but mediately through secondary or instrumental causes.

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Ad Intra

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An inward or internal act of God ie. the eternal decree.

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Omnisufficientia

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All sufficiency - the absolute self sufficiency of God. He stands in need of nothing but is totally sufficient in and of himself.

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Opera Trinitas ad extra sunt indivisia

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The ad extra works of the Trinity are undivided - since the Godhead is one it is impossible for any ad extra work to be done by one person of the Godhead against the will of another person of the Godhead.

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Potentia

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The capacity or power to accomplish change, to come into being.

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Potentia absoluta

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Absolute power - the omnipotence of God limited only by the law of noncontradiction.

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Potentia ordinata

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Ordained power - the power by which God creates and sustains the world in which He guarantees the stability and consistency of the orders of nature and of grace.

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Scientists Libra

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Free knowledge - the knowledge by which God knows what actually exists because of His will.

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Scientia Media

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Middle knowledge - a term used to describe a category in the divine knowledge in which God’s knowledge is conditional or consequent, rather than absolute, as pertaining to foreknowledge and future contingents.

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Scientia necessaria

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Necessary knowledge - the knowledge that God must have according to his nature which is both infinite and perfect of the divine being and of all possibilities.

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Simplicitas

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Simplicity - having an uncompounded or noncomposite nature. This is God, angels, and souls.

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Spiratio

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Spiration - the personal property of the Spirit as he relates to the Father and the Son. The Father and the Son eternally produce the Spirit from their own substance.

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Voluntas Dei

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The will of God - the attribute of God in which he brings about all the good known to himself which he desires.

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