Christian Beliefs Vocab

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Doctrine

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“The entire inherited earth

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Ecumenical

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The study of the things of God

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Theology

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Used for Christian teaching at the highest level of authority and trustworthiness

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Dogma

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A shape with four sides, with each side representing a resource that informs the Christian life: scripture, tradition, reason, and experience

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Wesleyan quadrilateral

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Emphasizes how spiritual disciplines can become habits to shape and form us in the image of Christ and train our hearts in love for God

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Practices

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Summaries of Christian doctrine

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Rule of Faith

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Brief statements of Christian faith

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Creeds

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Right Christian belief

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Orthodoxy

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“Scripture alone”

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Sola Scriptura

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Intentional practices meant to help us grow deeper in the spiritual life

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Spiritual disciplines

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Ways God has provided for us to be put in touch with the grade that is always there

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Means of grace

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God’s self-disclosure in creation and. the human conscience

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General revelation

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God’s specific self-revelation in the history of Israel, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, and Scripture

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Special revelation

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A theology drawn from general revelation

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Natural theology

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Make Jesus and the Spirit less than the Father

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Subordinationism

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The rational defense of the Christian faith to those who are not believers

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Apologetics

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Beliefs that have been rejected by the church as contrary to Scripture

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Hersey

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Both sorts of revelation convey truth about God, and each is continuous with the other, but we are unable to see this unless God pulls back the veil that obscures nature

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Unveiled Continuity

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The Spirit’s work as the author of the Scriptures, a work of the Spirit did in and with the human authors of the biblical texts

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Inspiration

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The ways 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 there

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Illumination

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The task of biblical interpretation

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Hermeneutics

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The books that make up the Christian Bible

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Canon

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Pushed for the church to adopt a coherent collection of texts, and he proposed his own list

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Marcion

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Another catalyst that moved the Christian church towards the "closed" canon of Scripture that we know as the Old and New Testament

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Montanist controversy

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Rejected the Protestant principle of sola scriptura and affirmed that Catholic theology relies on both Scripture and living tradition as interdependent and authoritative sources for theology

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Council of Trent

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Official teaching describes both sacred Scripture and sacred tradition as coming from one source of revelation, the Word of God: Scripture "as it is consigned to writing under the inspiration of the divine Spirit," and tradition as "the word of God entrusted by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit to the Apostles

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Second Vatican Council

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Succession

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To make a strong claim about the truth and reliability of the texts

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Inerrant

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To state that Scripture will not fail

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Infallibility

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General and special revelation in a relationship

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Ongoing Continuity

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The idea that God built a moral framework into creation itself

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Natural Law

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Understanding of Jesus makes him into an ordinary human being who merited adoption by God, and it was his "moral progress that won for him the title Son of God"

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Adoptionism

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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three modes in which the one God work in the world

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Modalism

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Taught that Jesus was God's first and greatest creature

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Arianism

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The suggestion that God the Father died on the cross

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Patripassianism

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"Substance/Essence"

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Ousia

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"Same in being" with God the Father

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Homoiousious

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The truth about God revealed in Scripture into a brief and traceable format, one that helps us know the character and identity of the triune God

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Nicene Creed

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The belief that there are three Gods

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Tritheism

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Homoousious

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"Mutual indwelling" to point to the relational nature of God

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Perichoresis

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Helps us talk about God's threeness

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Doctrine of Appropriations

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Synthesizes and affirms the biblical testimony to the kind of act by which God created everything

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Creatio ex nihilo

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God holds back, distant and standoffish, from what God has made

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Deism

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The fact of the radical difference between God and creation

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Transcendence

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Intimate presence to and care from

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Immanence

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The belief that the world is itself divine

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Pantheism

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The belief that God and the world are so bound yoghurt that God could not rightly exist without the world

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Panentheism

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A variety of groups in the ancient world that claimed to have access to a special form of gnosis, a secret knowledge available only to the gnostic in-group, a knowledge that would open the doors of salvation

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Gnosticism

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Divides creation in two: material and spiritual

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Hierarchical dualism

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Recognizes the goodness of all that God has made

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Holism

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God's work and will in upholding all of creation

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Preservation

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God's continuing work in creation

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Providence

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God's work in and with all things

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Concurrence

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God's work in guiding all things to the purpose for which they have been made and God's active rule over creation

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Governance

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God's actions in light of the existence of evil

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Theodicy

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Christian teachings about what sort of creatures we are

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Theological Anthropology

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Creatures who are always both physical and spiritual; can NOT be separated

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Psychosomatic Unities

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Would deny the existence of the spiritual or reduce the human being to a constellation of body parts and nothing more

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Materialism

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A kind of materialism that still recognizes the human being in relationship to God, while some philosophers work with the language of body-soul dualism, differentiating a Christian

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Nonreducative Physicalism

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Degrades the body

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Holistic Dualism

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Human beings are created in the image of God

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Imago Dei

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It sees human beings as sharing in some aspect of God's substance

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Substantial View

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The unique function human beings have in caring for God's creation

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Functional View

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Changes what is possible for human beings

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Fall

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Begins with God's triune nature, emphasizing God's life as perfect relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

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Relational View

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The reality that all human beings are born under the condition of sin, are sinners bound and chained

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Original Sin

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Denying original sin; each individual is responsible for their own moral choices; offered false gospel and taunted broken sinners with false hope

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Pelagian