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30 Cards in this Set
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religion
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a comprehensive worldview that accounts for questions of human existence and allows for believing something or someone beyond human existence
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religious studies
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the study of religion with a focus of humanity and the human experience of the divine
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theology
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the study of religion with a focus on God and spiritual reality
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revelation
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the deliberate self-disclosure of God to humanity
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faith
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belief in or acceptance of a set of truths, trust, action or practice arising from belief, personal insight or experience of the divine
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theological anthropology
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the relationship of human beings to God and God's creation
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soteriology
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given the troubling situation of human beings in the world, how do we respond? is there salvation and how is it attained?
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deuterocanonical books
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the seven books in the Catholic old testament that are not found in the Protestant old testament
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apocryphal books
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the seven books not found in the Protestant old testament that are found in the Catholic old testament
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synoptic
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the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which have many similar parables, accounts, and order of events, suggestions a common source
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christology
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a portrait of who Jesus was and what he did
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God-fearer
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gentiles who were attracted to Judaism but who were uncertain whether to become fully Jewish, because of restrictions of Jewish law and demand for circumcision
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apostasy
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to deny that you were a Christian
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ecclesiology
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theology of the church (assembly + rational account)
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monepiscopacy
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having a single bishop in charge of each local church
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ethics
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norms of bahavior and common values
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Christian ethics
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ethics rooted in the teaching of Jesus Christ and the Bible
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orthodoxy
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correct belief
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heresy
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false teaching
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apologist
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those who argued to defend the beliefs and doctrines of Christianity
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trinity
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precisely how to reconcile belief in one God with belief in three divine agents (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
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incarnation
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precisely how Jesus is both human and divine
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logos theology
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there is one God the Father, and the Son is God's logos, or mind or reason, and the Father and Son are always one because God is never without his Logos
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gnosticism
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heretical movement that thought the key to salvation was knowledge rather than faith
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asceticism
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living in a way somehow different from other for religious purposes
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cenobitic monasticism
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living in a community of monks withdrawn from the world
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scholasticism
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medieval theology that tried to harmonize faith with reason
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mysticism
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a spiritual phenomenon; direct, intense experience of union and oneness with God
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ultramontanism
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"beyond the mountains"; 19th-century tendency to exalt the authority of the pope
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aggiornamento
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to bring Catholicism "up to date" with the modern world
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