Vocab Test 1

Question 1

Anthropomorphism

Answer 1

Human physical characteristics are attributed to God for the sake of illustrating an important point

Question 2

Biblical Theology

Answer 2

Looks at doctrines according to the books of the Bible; Attempts to summarize and restate the teaching of a Biblical text or of a Biblical author without imposing any modern categories of thought on the text

Question 3

Canon

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“Standard” or “rule”; closely associated with the collection of books included within the Christian Bible

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deus absconditus

Answer 4

“the hidden God”

Question 5

deus revelatus

Answer 5

“the revealed God”

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Heresy

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Any teaching that is rejected by the Christian community because it is contrary to Scripture; it claims to be Christian and scriptural but has been rejected by the church as sub-Christian or antiscriptural

Question 7

Historical Theology

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Knows history behind Scripture and doctrine; Seeks to understand and delineate how the church interpreted Scripture and developed doctrine throughout history from the time of the apostles to present

Question 8

Inerrancy

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The idea that Scripture is completely free from error

Question 9

Infallibility

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Being incapable of failing to accomplish a predetermined purpose; The Bible will not fail in its ultimate purpose of revealing God and the way of salvation to humans

Question 10

Inspiration

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The work of the Holy Spirit enabled the human authors of the Bible to record what God desired to have written in the Scriptures

Question 11

Metanarrative

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The idea that there is an overarching, all-embracing story of humankind into which all the more particular narratives fit

Question 12

Metaphysics

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The philosophical exploration into the ultimate nature of reality lying beyond the merely physical

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Monism

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Allows for no distinction between God and creation

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Monotheism

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The belief in one God

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Orthodoxy

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Right thinking; “Right praise” or “right belief”; consistence in belief and worship with the Christian faith

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Orthopraxy

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Right doing

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Panentheism

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God is in all things; deity is in all of the universe

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Pantheism

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Everything is god

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Plenary Inspiration

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God is the ultimate author of the Bible; He gave the authors the concepts and ideas and guided them as they wrote Scripture

Question 20

Progressive Revelation

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“Moving forward”; belief that God’s self-disclosure forms a progression from the OT era to the NT era

Question 21

Prolegomenon

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First word; preface/forward; introduces and interprets an extended work

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Revelation

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The way in which God reveals Himself (general revelation and special revelation)

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Sensus plenior

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“Plenary” or “fuller sense”; the meaning of the Bible as it has come to be interpreted through Christian history while seeking to remain true to what the Biblical author meant to convey

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Sola fide

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“Faith only”; the only way to receive God’s grace is through faith

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Sola gratia

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“Grace only”; Salvation is God’s free gift accomplished by Christ’s saving death and resurrection, not human action

Question 26

Sola scriptura

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“Scripture only”; Scripture is the source of Christian revelation

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Systematic Theology

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Approaches different doctrines systematically; The attempt to summarize religious truth or the belief system of a religious group (Christianity) through an organized system of thought carried out within a particular cultural and intellectual context

Question 28

Theopneustos

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“God-breathed” or “God-inspired”; used to describe Scripture as divinely inspired documents or the product of divinely inspired authors

Question 29

Theism

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Any worldview anchored in the belief that there is a God

Question 30

Theocentric

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Holding God as the central object of focus and interest as well as our ultimate concern; to view all of life, including ethics, from the perspective of a commitment to God