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Is challenging & difficult
a new language
Basis of our pastoral ministry.
Theos - God / Logos - Study/reason/word/treatise
Study of God / an account or teaching about God & his dealings with humankind and the universe. |
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systematic way of talking about God's word
Every Christian is a theologian. |
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Orthos - straight / Doxos - thinking
Straight thinking based on the Bible
Right/Straight thinking about the Bible
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straight feelings
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straight/right actions/practices
Living out your faith
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belief that contradicts orthodoxy significantly
any teaching rejected by the Christian community as contrary to universal doctrine
not generally used for non-christians, reserved for any belief that claims to be Christian, but rejected by the church |
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Teaching
we mean - Principle which is accepted as valid/true (ortho) |
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Only Scripture
The Bible is the only
soloe (plural) alone, only; source of teaching
Bible contains all knowledge for holiness; scripture interprets scripture. |
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| Only grace or by grace alone |
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God is in everything.
St. Francis (2nd book of God = Nature) |
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salvation history
incarnation of Jesus
God's divine self-revelation |
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| an expansion & deeper understanding of a previous revelation |
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God breathed
Theo - God / pneo - breathes, to breathe
Holy Spirit (Pnema) - breath, wind |
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God gave the exact words of Scripture to the writers who wrote it word for word
(secretaries; armaneusis)
Doesn't account for the variety of styles in the Scriptures. |
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| natural insight of humans lifted to a higher place to write the scriptures; no God breathing. Their own understanding. |
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Divine & Human
direct dictation but uses their own style and personality; unique. The Spirit gives the thoughts |
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| straight rod/measuring rod; list; books that comprise the Bible (what Christianity is measured by) |
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| Koine Greek version of the Bible |
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| every word, completely free from error (not Wesleyan); autographs free from error; the original is error free |
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scripture related to faith & practice are without error such as salvation
consequently matters of faith are without error
may have been miscopied when rewrote, but the basis is there |
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stands above the entire universe - "out there"
outside his creation, separate from creation |
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right here, personal, among us, relationship with intimacy, thinking, and feeling.
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Omni - All / potent - power
all powerful |
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Omni - all / scient - knowing
knowing everything, no mistery |
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Omni - all / present - present
everywhere & nowhere
is in all places at all times |
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| Lord & supreme governor of our life |
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marked off/ separate
devoted |
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| fair, no favoritism, cannot be evaluated on a short term scale |
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| God allows them to be 'shared' |
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| God wears 3 masks, and puts on the one that applies at a particular time. |
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| God is king above Jesus & the Holy Spirit; God is over them |
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| God adopted Christ at the transfiguration |
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| Jesus was a special person |
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| God's unity lies in community formed by love |
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Water - 3 forms
3 leaf clover
egg - 3 parts |
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| as used in the New Testament, faith can refer tto either a person's assent and trust in another or the content that a person assents to and trusts in. |
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| the sacred text of Islam, containing the teachings and commands for those of the Muslim faith. It purportedly contains the teachings of Muhammad, the founding prophet of Islam. Muslims consider the Qur'an to be the perfect word of Allah (God). |
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| A central sacred text of Hinduism that contains philosophical dialogue between the god Krishna an dthe warrior Arjuna. Matters pertaining to Hindu ethics, philosophy, and personal devotion are discussed. |
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| A central sacred text of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The claim is that the Bible was a record of God's dealings with people in one region of the world, while the Book of Mormon is a record of God's dealings with the people of the Americas. Joseph Smith is said to have received a visit from the angel Moroni, who led Smith to an ancient record preserved on gold plates buried in a hill near Smith's home. The plates were then said to be supernaturally translated (from "reformed Egyptian") into English by Smith and published in 1830. |
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| Beginning with Karl Barth in the early twentieth century, this school of thought saw itself as a mediating response to the modern split between liberals and fundamentalists. Neo-orthodox theologians affirmed that the Word of God is an event that takes place when Jesus Christ, as witnessed to in the Bible, is proclaimed. But unlike evangelicals, they denied that the Bible is the Word of God in and of itself. |
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| Heilsgeschichte ("salvation history") |
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| A german word meaning "salvation history". Some contemporary theologians argue that the locus of revelation is found in God's mighty deeds in history, centered on teh resurrection of Jesus Christ, not in the words of the Bible. |
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| The belief that, while the Bible may contain errors regarding irrelevant matters when judged by modern standards, it cannot fail to accomplish what God intends it to accomplish. |
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| The belief that the Bible contains no errors of any kind. |
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| The original handwritten documents. |
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| As applied to Scripture, this is the discipline of critically examining existing copies of the Bible to determine the most likely original wording of the biblical authors. |
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| Having to do with how we know what we know. |
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| A way of thinking that proceeds from the basis of descriptions of actual events in scientific observations. This approach is inherently dependant on experience. |
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| A mythological monster that ancient Near Eastern people (Including the Israelites) believed inhabited the waters tat circled the earth (though a minority of evangelical scholars think it refers to an actual creature.) This is a way ancient people depicted forces of evil that threated the earth, Old Testament authors emphasized that Yahweh was able to be victorious over Leviathan. |
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| Like Leviathan, Rahab is an ancient way in which the Bible portrays evil and chaos as cosmic forces against God. |
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| Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the Synoptic Gospels because they each provide similar summaries (or synopses) of the life of Christ. |
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| Deductive reasoning from an assumed premise to a necessary conclusion. |
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| The acknowledgement and worship of more than one god. |
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| The belif that matter is all that exists, Hence, this view holds that all events are ultimately explainable on the basis of physical ("matter") cause-effect relations. Chemistry, physics, biology, and the other hard sciences are looked to for the most adequate explanation for any given problem. |
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| The pagan notion that the future is fixed by impersonal forces. Christians have always affirmed that God, not fate, governs the flow of history, (Whether humans and/ or angels by use of their free will have the power to affect this flow in ways God may not desire is disputed.) |
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| This school of philosophical theology holds that God aned the world are two coeternal realities that are eternally in the process of enriching each other. Process theology denies many of the classical attributes of God. Most problematic for evangelicals is its denail of omnipotence, creation out of nothing, and a final consummation of all things in the end-times. |
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| A popular religious movement in the fourth and fifth centuries that taught that there were two equal but opposite gods in the world, one good, the other evil. Before converting to Christianity, St. Augustine, arguably the most influential theologian in church history, was a Manichaean. |
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| God's governing of the universe. Some evangelicals hold that God's providence is meticulous-he governs each and every dtail, Others hold that it is more general-he controls the "big picture" but gives humans freedom to make their own choices. |
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| The belief that freedom of the human will is compatible with the all-determining power of God. |
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| The belief that true human freedom is not consistent with the belief that God determines all things. |
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| The ability of a person to determine freely his or her own course of action and to move toward becoming a certain kind of person. Arminians hold that people are self-determining, Calvinists hold that God ultimately determines all things. |
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| The belief that explains the presence of evil in the world by appealing to that free will of humans and angels. Because agents are free, they sometimes make decisions that are against God's will and are thus evil. |
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| One who believes in the Islamic faith, Muslims regard Muhammad as Allah's (God's) final prophet and the Qur'an as Allah's final and perfect revelation. |
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| People who believe in a personal God. |
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| People who believe that human welfare is the ultimate good and that humans have the power and responsibility to determine their own future. |
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| A contemporary movement that incorporates elements of Eastern mysticism, superstition, as well as pagan and occult beliefs. |
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