Vocab Test 2

Question 1

Words about, or teaching concerning humankind; any study of the status, habits, customs, relationships, and culture of humankind

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Anthropology

Question 2

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

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Concupiscence

Question 3

Refers to the attempt to understand the origin, nature and subsequent history of the universe

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Cosmology

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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

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Depravity

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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

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Dichotomy

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Out of nothing

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ex nihilo

Question 7

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

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Federal Theology

Question 8

The term used to refer to the theological investigation of sin; concerns itself with understanding the origin, nature, extent, and consequences of sin

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Hamartology

Question 9

A term describing the uniqueness of humans as God’s creatures; the image or likeness of God

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imago Dei

Question 10

The idea that God is present in, close to, and involved with creation

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Immanence

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The characteristic of not experiencing change or development

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Immutability

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The characteristic, usually associated with God, of being unaffected by earthly, temporal circumstances, particularly the experience of suffering and its effects

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Impassibility

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The characteristic of being unable to sin or being completely free from sin

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Impeccability

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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

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Infralapsarian; Sublapsarianism

Question 15

Relating to, based on or having to do with the intellect or the process of knowing

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Noetic

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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

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Omnipotence

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The attribute that refers to God’s being present everywhere in creation at the same time

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Omnipresence

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All-knowing; The attribute that denotes God’s knowing all things

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Omniscience

Question 19

The teaching of British monk Pelagius, who supposedly declared that human effort and merit could bring about salvation without divine grace

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Pelagianism

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Being able to sin; sinful

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posse peccare

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Not able to sin; relates to impeccability and the sinlessness of Jesus Christ

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posse non peccare

Question 22

Refers to God’s superintending activity over human actions and human history, bringing creation to its divinely determined goal

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Providence

Question 23

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

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Semi-Pelagianism

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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

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Supralapsarian

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A response to the problem of evil in the world that attempts logically, relevantly and consistently to defend God as simultaneously omnipotent, all-loving and just despite of the reality of evil

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Theodicy

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The view that in addition to the human body the human soul is transmitted from the parents to the child, rather than being created specifically for that human body by God ex nihilo

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Traducianism

Question 27

The attribute of God that refers to being wholly and distinctly separate from creation (although always actively involved in and with it as well); God is above the world and comes to creation from beyond

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Transcendence

Question 28

And understanding of human nature as divided into three parts: body, soul, and spirit; according to this theory, the spirit, the part of a human being that is capable of knowing God, is to be differentiated from the soul, which is the seat of the personality

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Trichotomy

Question 29

The Christian understanding that God is triune; means that one divine nature is a unity of three persons and that God is revealed as three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; the basis of this doctrine lies in the divine self-disclosure in Jesus, who as the Son revealed the Father and poured out the Holy Spirit

Answer 29

Trinity