Week 8 Glossary Flashcards
Refers to the thousand-year reign of Christ mentioned in Revelation 20:1-8.
Millennium
Any antidualist philosophy that appeals to one unifying principle to explain all that is.
Monism
Belief in one God as opposed to belief in many gods.
Monotheism
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.
Omnipotence
Attribute that denotes God’s knowing all things.
Omniscience
“Right praise” or “right belief” characterized by consistency in belief and worship with the Christian faith.
Orthodoxy
Belief that God and the universe are essentially identical.
Pantheism
Greek word used to refer to the second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of history. Means “presence.”
Parousia
Suggests that there are many paths to and expressions of truth about God and several equally valid means to salvation.
Pluralism
Division of Christian doctrine dealing with the Holy Spirit
Pneumatology
View that Christ’s second coming will follow the millennium.
Postmillennialism
Sovereign determination and foreknowledge of God.
Predestination
View that the millennium follows the return of Christ.
Premillennialism
An offering that turns away the wrath of God directed against sin.
Propitiation
Refers to God’s superintending activity over human actions and human history, bringing creation to its divinely determined goal.
Providence
A change in relationship or attitude from enmity to peace; the cessation of hostility in attitude or action
Reconciliation
Process by which sinful humans are “bought back” from the bondage of sin into relationship with God through grace by the “payment” of Jesus’ death.
Redemption
A biblical motif of salvation that emphasizes the rebirth or re-creation of fallen human beings by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Regeneration
Refers both to the process by which God discloses the divine nature and the mystery of the divine will and purpose to human beings, and to the corpus of truth disclosed.
Revelation
“To be set apart” from common use, “to be made holy.”
Sanctification
“The study of salvation” deals with the work of the triune God in bringing creation, and especially humans, to enjoy the divine purpose for existence.
Soteriology
Biblical concept of God’s kingly, supreme rule and legal authority over the entire universe.
Sovereignty
God’s divine self-revelation evidenced specifically in salvation history and culminating in the incarnation as understood through scripture.
Special revelation
Attempt to summarize religious truth or the belief system of a religious group (such as Christianity) through an organized system of thought.
Systematic theology
Argument for the existence of God based on the seemingly purposeful order of the universe that suggests the world is the work of a “Master Architect” rather than the result of chance.
Teleological argument
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 the reality of evil.
Theodicy
Attribute of God that refers to being wholly and distinctly separate from creation. Means that God is “above “the world and comes to creation from “beyond.”
Transcendence
Belief that all persons will be saved.
Universalism
