Vocabulary

Question 1

Theosophy

Answer 1

any of a number of philosophies maintaining that a knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, especially the movement founded in 1875 as the Theosophical Society by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907).

Question 2

Soteriology

Answer 2

the doctrine of salvation

Question 3

Apophatic

Answer 3

of knowledge of God) obtained through negation.

Question 4

Cataphatic

Answer 4

(of knowledge of God) obtained through affirmation.

Question 5

Inductive (Argument)

INDUCTIVE* A property of the intentions arguer.

Answer 5

STRONG* a property of the argument itself.

An argument intended to be strong but not necessarily completely valid.

You may concede that the argument does not necessarily follow from the premises but you believe that there is a strong inference.

Example of failed but still inductive argument:

1. Most Chinese people have dark hair.
2. Julie has dark hair.
3. Therefore, Julie is Chinese.

Question 6

Deductive (Argument)

DEDUCTIVE* a property of the intentions of the arguer.

Answer 6

An argument intended to be VALID.
VALID*property of the argument itself.

Example of failed but still deductive argument:

1. If the match is burning there must be oxygen in the room.
2. The match is not burning.
3. Therefore, there is no oxygen in the room.

They may believe that the conclusion follows with certainty from the premises. But in this case they’ve made a mistake.

Question 7

Perichoresis

Answer 7

A term referring to the relationship of the three persons of the triune God to one another.

Question 8

Heterodox

Answer 8

Not conforming with excepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.