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theological method

The procedure by which theology is done

kerygma

a Greek word used in the New Testament for 'proclamation'.

orthodoxy

Correct belief

orthopraxy

Right practice

presuppositions

Is how all theology is organized on (different assumption on how the religion should be)

Lex Credendi Lex Orandi

The law of prayer is the law of belief

pax Romana

Peace in Rome

imperialism

An unequal territorial relationship based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance involving the extension of authority and control

homoiousia

Same essence

homoousia

Similar substance

theology

Scripture, tradition and theology and experiences, the science of faith received and grasped in faith

Patristic

Dictation theory, scripture was given word forward to original writers. Governance theory, overseen by God in a sovereign way

Medieval

Tertullian, fits in where Christ and culture where popular

Reformation

also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

Modern

Augustin, he wrote the city of God engaged Christ of culture

inspiration

The influence on writers that is from the word of God

Vincentian Canon

helps distinguish orthodox Christian beliefs from heresy, summarized in the phrase: 'What has been believed everywhere, always, and by all.'

materialism

Just the physical world, nature

pantheism

nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity. The physical universe is thus understood as an immanent deity, still expanding and creating, which has existed since the beginning of time.

panentheism

Popular in process theology, everything is God

Gnosticism

Salvation was only possible through special knowledge it was not available by wider churches

dualism

Dualism in Christianity refers to the belief in two fundamental, opposing forces or principles that shape the universe and human experience. While dualism can take various forms, it is often associated with the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, or the spiritual and the material.

Deism

God and creation are two different things

creation ex nihilo

God is the only ultimate reality, creation is not infinite, creation is dependent, creature distinction, creation is unique.

Arius

God unknowable and transcendent, only father is eternal, son had beginning as first and highest created being, son is not one with father, Christ is subordinate to the father, Christ called God as an honor.

Athanasius

Christ is co eternal with father, Christ has no beginning, son and father are same essence, Christ is not subordinate to father they are =

hypostatic union

How Chalcedon relate to each other

Council of Nicaea

this ecumenical council was the first of many efforts to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all Christendom.

Athanasius

Christ is co eternal with father, Christ has no beginning, son and father are same essence, Christ is not subordinate to father they are = hypostatic union.

Council of Nicaea

This ecumenical council was the first of many efforts to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all Christendom. Hosius of Corduba may have presided over its deliberations.

Nicene Creed

Born from the virgin Mary ..., I believe in one lord ...

Trinity

The Trinity is the Christian doctrine concerning the nature of God, which defines one God existing in three, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons sharing one essence/substance/nature.

Perichoresis

Perichoresis is the relationship of the three persons of the triune God to one another. The term was first used in Christian theology by the Church Fathers.

Modalism

Oneness Christology is a Christian theology upholding the unipersonal oneness of God while also affirming the divinity of Jesus.

Tritheism

Is not equal, rather than being a single God of three eternally consubstantial Persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three ontologically separate Gods.

Holiness

Separateness, attribute.

Glory

Honor fame, weighty, beauty, majesty, splendor.

Aseity

Perfect self-sufficient, self-existent independent from creation, can be seen in church history, but term dates from Middle Ages.

Infinity

No beginning and no end.

Eternity

Usually also includes infinity, omnitemporal, does God exist within or separate from us? If God exists outside of time.

Omniscience

A God exists everywhere.

Omnipotence

A person who we will have to come to terms with face to face, A God that is all knowing.

Moralism

Salvation achieved by being continued and proven.

Original Sin

Adam and Eve introduced sin into the world.

Grace

Do not need to prove ourselves.

Christus Victor

General characteristics, Victory = Christ is victorious, God has a plan.