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Agnosticism

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Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition provided is the view that “human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist.”

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Anabaptism

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The name Anabaptist means “one who baptizes again”. Their persecutors named them this, referring to the practice of baptizing persons when they converted or declared their faith in Christ, even if they had been baptized as infants.

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Annihilationism

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annihilationism (also known as extinctionism or destructionism) is the belief that those who are wicked will perish or be no more.

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Arianism

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The Arian concept of Christ is based on the belief that the Son of God did not always exist but was begotten within time by God the Father, therefore Jesus was not co-eternal with God the Father.

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Arminianism

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Arminianism, a liberal reaction to the Calvinist doctrine of predestination. The movement began early in the 17th century and asserted that God’s sovereignty and man’s free will are compatible.

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Atheism

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Denial of the existence of any God or personal supreme being. “Intellectual atheism” is the formal philosophical expression of this denial.

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Atonement

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An act that reconciles God and Humanity. The word usually applies to Jesus’ death on the cross.

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Calvinism

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the theological system of Calvin and his followers marked by strong emphasis on the sovereignty of God, the depravity of humankind, and the doctrine of predestination.

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Cessationism

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Cessationism is a Protestant doctrine that spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues, prophecy and healing ceased with the Apostolic Age. Reformers such as John Calvin originated this view

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Charismatic

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Charismatic is an umbrella term used to describe those Christians who believe that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit seen in the first century Christian Church, such as healing, miracles and “speaking in tongues,” are available to contemporary Christians and ought to be experienced and practiced today.

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Christology

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The study of Jesus Christ is called Christology.

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Conditionalism

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a concept in which the gift of immortality is attached to (conditional upon) belief in Jesus Christ.

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Christus Victor

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Christus Victor asserts that “the work of Christ is first and foremost a victory over the powers which hold mankind in bondage: sin, death, and the devil.”

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Credobaptism

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Believer’s baptism, a person is baptized on the basis of his or her profession of faith in Jesus Christ and as admission into a local community of faith.

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Deism

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the philosophical position that rejects revelation as a source of religious knowledge and asserts that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to establish the existence of a Supreme Being or creator of the universe.

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Depravity (Total)

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The doctrine of total depravity asserts that people are, as a result of the fall, not inclined or even able to love God wholly with heart, mind, and strength, but rather are inclined by nature to serve their own will and desires and reject his rule.

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Determinism

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Determinism, in philosophy, theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes. Determinism is usually understood to preclude free will because it entails that humans cannot act otherwise than they do.

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Dispensationalism

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A kind of Biblical interpretation that understands Gods pan for salvation for the jews as different from his plan of salvation for the gentiles.

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Docetism

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Docetism, the doctrine, important in Gnosticism, that Christ’s body was not human but either a phantasm or of real but celestial substance, and that therefore his sufferings were only apparent.

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Dogma

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a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.

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Ecclesiology

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the study of churches, especially church building and decoration.
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theology as applied to the nature and structure of the Christian Church.

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Election

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election refers to God’s choosing of individuals or peoples to be saved

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Eschatology

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The study of the final things- the culmination and consummation of Gods plan and way of dealing with the world.

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Eucharist

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literally “ thanksgiving.” Another word for the Lords Supper or “communion”; often used as sacramental in some churches.

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Evangelical

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Evangelicalism is a movement within Protestant Christianity that maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, solely through faith in Jesus’s atonement

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Ex Nihilo

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it means that matter is not eternal but had to be created by some eternal uncaused cause, frequently defined as God

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Expiation

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An effect of Jesus Christs death on the cross in which humanity sinfulness is covered over and set aside so that reconciliation between God and humanity can take place.

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Fideism

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the doctrine that knowledge depends upon faith or revelation

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Fundamentalism

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religion that upholds strict and or literal interpretation of scripture

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Glorification

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the future transformation of saved person in which we will be like Christ in every way

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Gnosticism

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Gnosticism is a heresy which is made up of a diverse set of beliefs. It is the teaching based on the idea of gnosis (a Koine Greek word meaning “secret knowledge”), or knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of internal, intuitive means.

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Hypostatic Union

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The idea that Jesus was simultaneously man and God at the same time.

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Imago Dei

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The “image of God” in humans by which they reflect something of God in a limited and imperfect way.

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Immanence

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Gods presence in and with creation. Not a spacial concept but relational concept that expresses Gods gracious involvement in the world of nature and history

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Immutable

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unchanging over time and or unable to be changed, specifically regarding Gods character

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Imputation

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Imputation “is used to designate any action or word or thing as reckoned to a person. Adams sin is imputed to the rest of mankind. Christs righteousness is imputed to those who have faith in him.

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Incarnation

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The divinity or deity of Jesus Christ in which he is God in human flesh

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Inerrancy

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Without error; trustworthy. the Bible’s “Inerrancy” means that the information in it provides is accurate to the extent that is necessary to serve the purposes of the author

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Infallibility (biblical)

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Not liable to deceive; trustworthy. Trustworthy in what it teaches us

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Infused (grace/righteousness)

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the Roman Catholic view of Justification, seen as a “process”

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Inspiration

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scripture is divinely inspired in that God actively worked through the process and had his hand in the outcome of what Scripture would say.

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Justification

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An aspect of salvation by which we are declared righteous by God even when we are still sinners

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Kenosis

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Kenosis theory concludes that Jesus is or was less than God (as has been the case in the past), it is regarded as heresy.

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Liberalism

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Protestant Liberalism, is a theological movement, It is an attempt to incorporate modern thinking and developments, especially in the sciences, into the Christian faith. Liberalism tends to emphasize ethics over doctrine and experience over Scriptural authority.

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Monergism

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Monergism (Greek mono meaning “one” and erg meaning “work”) is a term for the belief that the Holy Spirit is the only agent who effects regeneration of Christians.

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Monotheism

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Monotheism is the belief that there is but one God, who is personal and and transcendent (other than the world), and immanent (present in the world)

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Monophysitism

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Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning ‘one’ and physis meaning ‘nature’) is the christological position that Christ has only one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human.

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Omnipotence

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all-powerful

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Omnipresence

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all-present

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Omniscience

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all-knowing

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Open Theism

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Open theism, is the belief that God does not exercise meticulous control of the universe but leaves it “open” for humans to make significant choices (free will) that impact their relationships with God and others. A corollary of this is that God has not predetermined the future. Open Theists further believe that this would imply that God does not know the future exhaustively.

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Original sin

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Original sin is the doctrine which holds that human nature has been morally and ethically corrupted due to the disobedience of mankind’s first parents to the revealed will of God

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Orthodoxy

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Right-belief, In Christianity, it generally means adhering to the accepted or traditional historic Christian faith.

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Paedobaptism

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baptism for a person while an infant or child, commonly performed within the first two years of life.

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Pantheism (and Panentheism)

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Panentheism, literally “all-in-God-ism”, “affirms that although God and the world are ontologically distinct [i.e., not the same] and God transcends the world, the world is ‘in’ God ontologically.” ^ [1]^ This is not to be confused with pantheism, which understands God to be the world.

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Parousia

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The Second Coming or Second Advent of Jesus Christ

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Pelagianism

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Pelagianism views humanity as basically good and morally unaffected by the Fall.

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Penal substitutionary atonement

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Penal substitutionary atonement refers to the doctrine that Christ died on the cross as a substitute for sinners

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Eternal Security

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doctrine that those who are truly saved will persevere to the end and cannot lose their salvation.

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Polytheism

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Polytheism is belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or divinities. The word comes from the Greek words poly+theoi, literally “many gods.”

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Postmodernism

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Postmodernism is a relativistic system of observation and thought that denies absolutes and objectivity

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Predestination

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the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others.

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Prevenient grace

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Prevenient grace refers to the grace of God in a person’s life that precedes conversion (or salvation).

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Priesthood of all believers

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The priesthood of all believers… means that in the community of saints, God has constructed his body such that we are all priests to one another.

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Propitiation

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the basic idea of appeasement, or satisfaction, specifically towards God.

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Protestant

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A Protestant is an adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them.

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Rapture

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The Rapture is the popular term used to describe one perceived view of the Lord’s return based on the writings of the Apostle Paul

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Reconciliation

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A result of Jesus’s mission in which the enmity or hostility between God and man is overcome and set aside so that they can have a good relationship

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Regeneration

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The aspect of salvation that is often called “born again.” The Holy Spirit effects a new, reconciled relationship between a person and God.

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Righteousness

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a kind of moral attribute and quality while not diminishing the term’s legal nature and status.

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Sacrament

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An outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace.

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Salvation

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The Spirit’s work in bringing us into full conformity with the likeness of Jesus Christ. It involve aspects, all of which are works of Gods grace.

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Sanctification

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The ongoing process whereby the Holy Spirit makes us holy by setting us apart, transforming us into the likeness of Christ, and leading us into the service of God.

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Sola Scriptura

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Scripture alone is the only source of authority for Christians.

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Soteriology

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the study of salvation is called soteriology,

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Synergism

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Synergism, in general, may be defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently.

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Theodicy

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an aspect of theology concerned with how to reconcile the existence of a good God with the existence of evil in the world.

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Tribulation

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the Tribulation is a relatively short period of worldwide persecution and judgment leading up to the Second coming of Jesus Christ.

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Universalism

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Belief that in the end God will reconcile everyone to himself and gather everyone into fellowship with him

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Wesleyen Quadrilateral

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a methodology for theological reflection that is credited to John Wesley,
This method based its teaching on four sources as the basis of theological and doctrinal development. These four sources are scripture, tradition, reason, and Christian experience.

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