Vocab test 6/6/24

Question 1

Apokatastasis

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Meaning restoration or return on Greek. The idea that hell is NOT eternal and that the eschatological goal of the cosmos is perfection as pre-fall

Question 2

Beatific vision

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A face-to-face encounter with God

Question 3

Book of revelation

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Last book of the NT, which tells of the Parousia. Written by John the Divine in Patmos approx. 90AD and interpreted in different ways (NT is written in Greek)

Question 4

Disembodied existence

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Existing without a physical body

Question 5

Double predestination

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God elects the righteous to heaven and condemns sinners to hell.

Question 6

Election (theological)

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Predestination, chosen by God for heaven or hell

Question 7

Divine decree

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God’s judgement or ruling

Question 8

Eschatology

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“Discussion (description) of the last things” at the end of time such as judgement of the world by God; battle between good v evil etc

Question 9

Hades and Gehenna

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Hades is the place of departed spirits awaiting judgement. Gehenna is associated with death and pollution

Question 9

Gospel of Matthew

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Approx. 75AD with the author interested in Jewish law and relationship with the new law of Jesus.

Question 10

Kingdom of God

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Describes God’s rule whether in this world or in heaven.

Question 11

Limited election

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The view that God choses only a small number of people for heaven

Question 12

Lucifer

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“Light Bearer” who was a fallen angel

Question 13

Maran Atha

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Aramaic term often translated as “O Lord, come!” Aramaic related to Hebrew and would have been spoken by Jesus

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Martyr

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Someone who is killed because of their religion i.e. Maccabees C2nd BC

Question 15

Millenarianism

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(Chiliastic Doctrine) Based on Revelation 20:2-5 and Christ returning and ruling on Earth for 1000 years

Question 16

Mortal sin

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Sin which is morally deficient and deliberately defies God

Question 17

Original sin

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A state of wrongdoing in which people are born (according to some Christians) because of the sin of Adam and Eve

Question 18

Parable

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A story told to highlight a moral message

Question 19

Parousia

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Used in Christianity to refer to the second coming of Christ.

Question 20

Particular judgement

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Judgement for each person at the point of death

Question 21

Perdition

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Eternal punishment

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Pharisees

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Jewish religious leaders at the time of Jesus who unlike other Jewish leaders they believed in resurrection and angels

Question 23

Purgatory

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A place where people go, temporarily after death to be cleansed of sin before they are fit to live with God

Question 24

Resurrection

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Living on after death in a glorified physical form in a new realm

Question 25

Sadducees

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A political party at the time of Jesus who rejected ideas of an afterlife

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SHEOL

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Old testament equivalent to Hades

Question 27

Single predestination

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God elects the righteous to heaven and the evil select hell themselves

Question 28

Universalism

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The view that all people will be saved

Question 29

Unlimited election

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All people are called to salvation but only a few will be saved

Question 30

Venial sin

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Errors of judgement and made due to a lack of moral knowledge which can be absolved through repentance

Question 31

Origen (184 – 253AD)

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Theologian and writer of influence (influenced by Plato). Important work was “De Principlis”

Question 32

Gregory of Nyssa (335 – 395AD)

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Influential teacher and preacher. Indebted to the ideas of Plato and Origen.

Question 33

Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

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Florence, Italy – statesman and poet. In his “Divine Comedy”, he describes his journey through hell (Inferno) and heaven (Paradiso). Main theological influence was Thomas Aquinas

Question 34

Paul Tillich (1886 – 1965)

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German-American Lutheran Philosopher who was influenced by existentialism (a modern philosophical movement stressing the importance of personal experience and . The individual is seen as a free agent in a deterministic and seemingly “meaningless universe”.

Question 35

John-Paul Satre (1905 – 1980)

Answer 35

French Philosopher and political activist. Major work – “Being and Nothingness” (1943)