Vocabulary

Question 1

Theology

Answer 1

Theology is the discipline of speaking faithfully about God.

Question 2

Christian Doctrine

Answer 2

A set of beliefs held and taught by the Church.

Question 3

Dogma

Answer 3

Christian teachings at the highest level of authority and trustworthiness shared across Christian communities.

Question 4

Orthodoxy

Answer 4

Right Christian belief.

Question 5

Heresy

Answer 5

Teachings that distort and depart from accepted doctrine or scripture.

Question 6

Apostolic

Answer 6

Relating to the teaching of the New Testament or the church as the New Testament describes.

Question 7

Canon

Answer 7

Officially accepted books of the Bible (Scripture).

Question 8

General Revelation

Answer 8

Refers to God’s self-disclosure in creation and in the human conscious.

Question 9

Special Revelation

Answer 9

Refers to God’s specific self-revelation in the history of Israel, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, and Scripture. Often described as the “Word of God.”

Question 10

Inspiration

Answer 10

Refers to the spirit’s work as the author of the Scriptures. (past tense)

Question 11

Illumination

Answer 11

Refers to the ways that the Spirit continues to work in and with God’s people, as readers of Scripture, to help us understand and be faithful to what we read. Sometimes referred to as “revelation” in lay language.

Question 12

Interpretation

Answer 12

Involves Biblical hermeneutics, which is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the Scriptures.

Question 13

Exegesis

Answer 13

Critical explanation or interpretation of a text; proper hermeneutics which attempts to draw out what the text is saying.

Question 14

Eisegesis

Answer 14

Represents a poor hermeneutical process which attempts to read into the text what is already thought.

Question 15

Trinitarian Theology

Answer 15

Study of the Godhead or Trinity.

Question 16

Trinity

Answer 16

Literally means three in one; refers to the whole Godhead, one God who exists eternally and three co-equal persons: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

Question 17

Adoptionism

Answer 17

Heresy which denies the co-equality of the Godhead. It is a form of subordinationism.

Question 18

Modalism

Answer 18

Heresy which denies the personhood of the Godhead. “Masks” God puts on.

Question 19

Arianism

Answer 19

Heresy which denies the deity of Jesus. Teaches Jesus was God‘s first and greatest creature of creation.

Question 20

Theological Anthropology

Answer 20

The study of humanity as they relate to God; in particular what it means to be made in the Imago Dei or image of God.

Question 21

Redemption

Answer 21

God’s restorative process back to original intent.

Question 22

Nuclear Family

Answer 22

A husband and wife and their dependent children living in one household together form the basic core unit of all civil society.

Question 23

Extended Family

Answer 23

All the descendants of a common ancestor.

Question 24

Spiritual Family

Answer 24

The family of God or the “household of God.”

Question 25

Marriage

Answer 25

The union of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime.

Question 26

Hamartiology

Answer 26

The study of sin and it’s corresponding effects.

Question 27

Hamartia

Answer 27

Greek archery term meaning “miss the mark;” refers to sin or not meeting God‘s perfect standard.

Question 28

Original Sin

Answer 28

The theological idea that sin has altered all of creation, including the nature of human beings from birth.

Question 29

Imputed Sin

Answer 29

The theological idea that Adam’s sin is credited to not just him, but all of humanity. It is the idea that not only do we now have sinful nature‘s, but we share in the guilt of Adam’s sin from birth and therefore share in the penalty.

Question 30

Personal Sin

Answer 30

These are the sins committed by our own choosing through thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and actions.

Question 31

Iniquity

Answer 31

A category of personal sin involving inward motivations, attitudes, and issues of the heart.

Question 32

Transgressions/Trespasses

Answer 32

A category of personal sin involving outward movement, actions, and behavior.

Question 33

Christology

Answer 33

The study of the person of Jesus Christ.

Question 34

Incarnate

Answer 34

God embodied in the flesh; in human form.

Question 35

Virgin Birth

Answer 35

Doctrine of traditional Christianity that Jesus Christ had no natural father but was conceived by Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Question 36

Duel Nature of Christ

Answer 36

Theological idea that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully human.