Vocab Test 2 Flashcards
Words about, or teaching concerning humankind; any study of the status, habits, customs, relationships, and culture of humankind
Anthropology
A word that describes the fallen human tendency or strong desire toward engaging in sin; describes humans as desiring sin even if they choose not to engage in it
Concupiscence
Refers to the attempt to understand the origin, nature and subsequent history of the universe
Cosmology
Refers both to the damaged relationship between God and humans and to the corruption of human nature such that there is within every human an ongoing tendency toward sin
Depravity
Literally, a division of items into two mutually exclusive categories; often refers to the theory that humans are composed of two distinct components, body and soul
Dichotomy
Out of nothing
ex nihilo
A theological system of thought identified with the work of Johannes Cocceius and often called covenant theology; suggests that as the first human, Adam acted as the “federal head” or legal representative of the rest of humankind. Thus God entered into a covenantal relationship with Adam that promised blessing for obedience and a curse for disobedience
Federal Theology
The term used to refer to the theological investigation of sin; concerns itself with understanding the origin, nature, extent, and consequences of sin
Hamartology
A term describing the uniqueness of humans as God’s creatures; the image or likeness of God
imago Dei
The idea that God is present in, close to, and involved with creation
Immanence
The characteristic of not experiencing change or development
Immutability
The characteristic, usually associated with God, of being unaffected by earthly, temporal circumstances, particularly the experience of suffering and its effects
Impassibility
The characteristic of being unable to sin or being completely free from sin
Impeccability
Related to a debate among Calvinists over the intricacies of divine election, this position asserts that God’s decree of election logically follows God’s decree to allow the Fall of humankind into sin
Infralapsarian; Sublapsarianism
Relating to, based on or having to do with the intellect or the process of knowing
Noetic
All-powerful; The attribute that refers to God’s ability to do whatever is consistent with God’s own character and being in effecting the divine plan for creation
Omnipotence
The attribute that refers to God’s being present everywhere in creation at the same time
Omnipresence
All-knowing; The attribute that denotes God’s knowing all things
Omniscience
The teaching of British monk Pelagius, who supposedly declared that human effort and merit could bring about salvation without divine grace
Pelagianism
Being able to sin; sinful
posse peccare
Not able to sin; relates to impeccability and the sinlessness of Jesus Christ
posse non peccare
Refers to God’s superintending activity over human actions and human history, bringing creation to its divinely determined goal
Providence
A word that later came to be used to describe the doctrines proposed between AD 427 and 529 which theologically held a middle ground between Pelagius and Augustine; maintain that faith begins independently of God’s grace, although such grace is subsequently necessary for salvation, and that predestination is simply divine foreknowledge
Semi-Pelagianism
A calvinistic view of predestination that maintains that in the “logical order of divine decrees” God decreed the election of some persons and the reprobation of others before allowing the Fall of Adam; the emphasis is on God’s predestination of uncreated and unfallen humans rather than on created and fallen humanity; leads to the idea of double predestination in which God has chosen to glorify himself by predestining certain persons to eternal life and others to eternal condemnation
Supralapsarian
