Week 1

Question 0

Accommodation

Answer 0

Speaks of God making himself known to humans in words and ways suitable for the finite human mind to comprehend

Question 1

A posteriori, a priori

Answer 1

Terms used to refer to whether an assertion is dependent on experience(a posteriori) or independent of experience (priori)

Question 2

Adoption

Answer 2

Gods act of making otherwise estranged human beings part of God’s spiritual family by including them as inheritors of the riches of divine glory.

Question 3

Advent

Answer 3

Literal meaning “coming” or “arrival,” this term refers to the coming of Jesus Christ to earth.

Question 4

Aesthetics (esthetics)

Answer 4

The area of philosophy formally concerned with defining the nature of beauty

Question 5

Agnosticism

Answer 5

Literally “no knowledge”

Question 6

Alexandrian school

Answer 6

The Alexandrian theologians taught that although the bible was literally true it’s correct interpretation lay in the moral or allegorical senses more than in the literal sense

Question 7

Allegory

Answer 7

Stories in which details correspond to or reveal a “hidden” “higher” or “deeper” meaning

Question 8

Amillennialism

Answer 8

The belief that the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 do not represent a specific period of time between Christs first and second comings

Question 9

Analogy of being (analogia entis)

Answer 9

The argument that there is sufficient similarity between god and creation so that observation of the universe will yield a limited understanding of God’s nature