Christian Theo II Vocab Quiz #1

Image of God

The nature of man such that he is like God and represents God.

imago Dei

A Latin phrase meaning “image of God.”

Dichotomy

The view that man is made up of two parts, body and soul/spirit.

Trichotomy

The view that man is made up of three parts: body, soul, and spirit.

Traducianism

The view that the soul of a child is inherited from the baby’s mother and father at the time of conception.

Impute

To think of as belonging to someone, and therefore to cause it to belong to that person. God “thinks of” Adam’s sin as belonging to us, and it therefore belongs to us, and in justification he thinks of Christ’s righteousness as belonging to us and so relates to us on this basis.

Inherited guilt

The idea that God counts all people guilty because of Adam’s sin (often referred to as “original guilt”).

Inherited sin

The guilt and the tendency to sin which all people inherit because of Adam’s sin (often referred to as “original sin”).

Original sin

The traditional term for the doctrine referred to in this text as “inherited sin.”

Propitiation

A sacrifice that bears God’s wrath to the end and in so doing changes God’s wrath toward us into favor.

Total depravity

The traditional term for the doctrine referred to in this text as “total inability.”

Sin

Any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature.

Election

An act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

Foreknowledge

Relating to the doctrine of election, the personal, relational knowledge by which God thought of certain people in a saving relationship to Himself before creation. This is to be distinguished from the mere knowledge of facts about a person.

Predestination

Another term for “election;” in Reformed theology generally, this is a broader term that includes not only election (for believers) but also reprobation (for nonbelievers).

Reprobation

The sovereign decision of God before creation to pass over some persons, in sorrow deciding not to save them, and to punish them for their sins and thereby to manifest His justice.

Born Again

A scriptural term (John 3:3-8) referring to God’s work of regeneration by which He imparts new spiritual life to us.

Born of the Spirit

Another term for “regeneration” that indicates the special role played by the Holy Spirit in imparting new spiritual life to us.

Irresistible Grace

A term that refers to the fact that God effectively calls people and also gives them regeneration, both of which guarantee that we will respond in saving faith. This term is subject to misunderstanding since it seems to imply that people do not make a voluntary, willing choice in responding to the gospel.

Regeneration

A secret act of God in which He imparts new spiritual life to us; sometimes called “being born again.”

Anthropology

Doctrine of Man

Hamartiology

Doctrine of Sin

Soteriology

Doctrine of Salvation