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Lex Orandi
laws of prayer
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Lex Credendi
laws of belief
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Lex Vivendi
laws of life
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Theology
speaks about an organized set of Christian teachings
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Theos
= God
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Logos
= word/reason
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Primary Theology
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Doctrine
important themes in scripture/Christian faith
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Dogma
Christian teachings at the highest level of authority/trustworthiness
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God, the Earth, and …
neighbor
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Orthodoxy
right Christian belief
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Heresy
beliefs that are rejected by the church contrary to scripture
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Ecumenism
teachings of the whole church which spreads through several centuries and around the globe
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Apostles’ Creed
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Nicene Creed
Council of Nicea

\-the statement of faith in the year of 325 AD that Christians believe in and allows us to understand scripture

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\-confession of faith in divinity/unity of the Trinity (e.g., Father, Son, Holy Spirit)
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General Revelation
creation/natural law witness to God
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Special Revelation
have no role in theology (e.g., Bible)
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Ongoing Continuity (b/t General and Special)
= the natural law (moral framework)

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general revelation: at work even after sin

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special revelation: builds upon general revelation, exists side by side
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Unveiled Continuity (b/t General and Special)
= includes both general and special revelation but needs God’s grace to unveil
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Biblical Inerrancy
= without error, referring to the Bible (e.g., scripture)
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Biblical Infallibility
= will not fail, referring to the Bible (e.g., scripture)
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Biblical Canon
= what Christians will refer to/believe in

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instigates the question, “how do we know about God?'“
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Sola Scriptura
= the Bible comes first

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\-sacred scripture/tradtion
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Wesleyan Quadrilateral
\-a resource for theology

\-named after John Wesley
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Persona
= person “what distinguishes”

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\-refers to the Trinity
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Substantia
= a constitutive material of a thing

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\-what unifies the Triune God (i.e., substance)
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Oiknomia
Greek for economy

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\-operations within a household

\-”how does God work in the world when he is Triune?”
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Economic Trinity
\-referring to Terullians’ arguement
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Shema
Jewish roots

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\-believes that there’s only one God, which is the risen Christ becoming God
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Monotheism
means Jewish roots

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\-believes only in one god
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Polytheism
believes in more than one god
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Great Commission
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Adoptionism
a form of subordination

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\-Jesus was adopted/promoted to a divine person b/c of his good life
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Subordinationism
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Modalism (Sabellianism)
1 God in 3 working modes/masks (i.e., God, Jesus, Holy Spirit)

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main issue:

\-God is never fully revealed
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Arianism
Jesus = God’s 1st and greatest creation

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\-believes that Jesus is NOT eternal and uncreated

\-Jesus does NOT share the same (homo) substance (ouisa) but is homoiousia w/ the Father
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Homoouisa
means “like God, the Father”

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\-same substance w/ the Father
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Homoiousia
means “not like God, the Father”

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\-not the same substance w/ the Father but similar
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Perichoresis
means “mutual indwelling”

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\-points to the relational nature of God
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Creation Ex Nihilo
means “from nothing”

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\-God created from nothing

\-Nothing has status alongside God, a godlike status
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Gnosticism
(a heresy) includes hierarchical dualism between material and spiritual

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\-believes that we carry parts of the Spirit within us, and that we are somehow spiritually connected to God

\-believes that physical (i.e., material) is evil or flawed

\-Spiritual needs to be liberated from the physical
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Hierarchical Dualism
means that two things/concepts are not viewed as different but equally valuable, clear difference in value
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Holism
the “goodness” of what God has made
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Providence
means “govern”

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\-God governs and sustains what God has created
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Stewardship
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Theodicy
making sense of evil in the world while also believing in a good God

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\-problematic to understand
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Deism
something that Christians do not believe in

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\-a world that God created from nothing can’t be the world of deism, where God is distant and uninvolved
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Pantheism
means that the world is divine
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Panentheism
means that God is so involved w/ the world that he can’t exist w/o it