Religion Terms 3

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Apocatastasis

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Biblical Picture of the final restoration of all things. Some believe this includes universal salvation. It is associated with Origen who believed all would be restored to a loving unity with God

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Apostolicity

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Having the authority and sanction of the apostles. it is often used as a mark of the church to indicate the essential continuity of the church with apostolic teaching.

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Catholic

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Term used since the 2nd century to designate the Christian church throughout the the world. it is opposed to "sectarian", which refers to those who have separated from the worldwide church. it is a "mark" of the church along with the "one", "holy" and "apostolic".

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Corporate personality

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Term used by OT scholars to describe the idea, found particularly in the OT, that the individual represents the community and that the community is "summed up" in the individual. The story of Achan illustrates how the sin of one affects the community.

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Justification

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God's declaring a sinful person to be "just" on the basis of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. The result is God's peace, God's Spirit, and thus "salvation".

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Liturgical Worship

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Worship according to persecuted forms, in contrast to that which does not follow a formal structure. (e.g. Private Prayer).

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Kerygma

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the content of the early Christian gospel message as proclaimed by the apostles, it centered on God's saving actions in the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Faith and conversion are responses to the gospel.

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Memorialism

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A view of the Lord's supper often associated with the teaching of Huldrych Zwingli. Which holds that the supper is commemorative of Jesus Christ and that there is no "real presence" of Christ in any other than a symbolic sense.

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Merit

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The worth or Value of an act of obedience and, in an extended sense, that which a person who performs the act deserves. Theologically, the Protestant Reformers rejected the view that human acts have merit before God.

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Mortification

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A theological term for the subduing or putting to death of the life of sin through repentance, in some tradition particular stress is on subduing sensual appetites and using ascetic practices.

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Mystical Body

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An image of the church as the "body of Christ" and as a "mystery" through which God's purposes of redemption through Christ are being achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit. The church thus has a spiritual essence and, in some views a sacramental character.

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Parousia

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A term used for the "coming of Christ", Most usually focused on the "second coming" or future advent as indicated in the Nicene Creed: he "will come again"

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Pelagianism

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the theological views associated with the British monk Pelagius, who in theological debate with Augustine argued for a totally free human will to do the good and held that divine grace was bestowed in relation to human merit. these views were condemned at the council of Ephesus (431).

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Predestination

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God's Actions in willing something to a specific result. It is also called fore ordination. Some Christian theologians, particularly in the reformed tradition, have seen it as indicating God's eternal decree by which all creatures are foreordained to eternal life or death. It may also be used synonymously with "election" and indicates God's gracious initiation of salvation for those who believe in JC

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Theosis

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The view held by Eastern Orthodox theologians that salvation from sin consists of the process of "deification", through which believers become united with Christ's divine nature and thus with God.

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Works Righteousness

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The view that human works can have a status before God and can contribute either fully or partially toward salvation.