Final Flashcards
A biblical passage that prescribes how people ought to live
Prescriptive passage
A biblical passage that describes specific events
Descriptive Passage
A reference book of words and phrases found in the bible
Theological Dictionary
A alphabetical dictionary that translates and defines words from another language
Lexicon
A verse by verse exposition of scriptural passages written to help people better understand the bible
Bible commentary
The meaning of words or passages
Content
A skeptical worldview
Literary Context
The time, place,culture and audience of a text
Historical Context
The discourse sour rounding a passage that gives meaning to the content
Context
A classification of literary style used in scripture
Biblical Genre
From the Greek for “lead out”
Exegesis
A fictional narrative in which characters and events are presented as symbols for moral spiritual truths
Allegory
A form of theological inquiry that aims to arrange and categorize religious truths into an internally consistent system
Systematically Theology
From the Greek for “interpret”
Hermeneutics
A skeptical worldview
Postmodernism
A method of literary analysis tang question the ability of language to represent reality adequately and seek to dis earn and expose the purported underlying ideologies of a text
Deconstruction
Aristotles conception of an utterly transcendent impersonal eat and unchanging being that set the universe in motion
Prime Mover
A term used in ancient Greek philosophy to describe a life of flourishing a happiness
Eudaimonia
A commitment to cherish others regardless of how ones feel about them
Love
The stage in life when a person makes the shift from self interest towards genuine concern for others and society
Gerotranscendence
The ability of thinking and acting with good judgement
Wisdom
From Greek for “changing ones mind”
Repentance
The set of characteristics giving some and convictions that uniquely define who a person is
Identity
The quilts of being morally and spiritually right with God
Righteousness
An organism that survives at the expense of a host
Parasite
The orthodox Christian belief that sin entered the natural world when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil
Doctrine of the fall
From the Hebrew for “I am”
Yahweh
From Hebrew for “deity”
Elohim
From the Hebrew for “peace”
Shalom
The belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable
Fatalism
The belief that all life arose through random chances processes
Evolutionism
From the Hebrew for “to serve”
Abad
A state which a person works intently on something fascinating and is able to work in a smooth rhythm
Flow
Impiles the idea of clan or family
Basar
The ability to feel and experience sensation
Sentience
The belief that human being become persons only after gaining particular abliites
Functional View of Personhood