Theo 201 Test 1

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Absolute Inerrancy

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holds that the Bible, which includes rather detailed treatment of matters both scientific and historical, is fully true

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Angelology

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Study of Angels

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Anthropological

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sees some aspects of human nature as a revelation of God

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Anthropology

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study of humankind, in particular

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Anthropomorphism

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the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal or object

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authority

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the written Word, correctly interpreted is the objective basis and the inward illuminating and persuading work of the Holy Spirit is the subjective dimension

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Bibliology

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1. the history and science of books as physical objects 2. the study of the theological doctrine of the Bible

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canonicity

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describes the standard that the books had to meet to be recognized as scripture

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Christology

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the study of Christ

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Cosmological

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In the realm of our experience, everything that we know is caused by something else

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dictation theory

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the teaching that God actually dictated the Bible to the writers.

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Doctrine

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deals with general or timeless truths about God and the rest of reality,it is not simply the study of specific historical events, such as what God has done, but of the very nature of the God who acts in history

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Dynamic Theory

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emphasizes the combination of divine and human elements in the process of inspiration and the writing of the Bible

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Ecclesiology

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1. The study of churches, especially church building and decoration

2. theology as applied to the nature and structure of the Christian Church

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Epistemology

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the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. this is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from oppinion

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Eschatology

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the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

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Full Inerrancy

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holds that the Bible is completely true. While the Bible does not primarily aim to give scientific and historical data, such scientific and historical assertions as it does make are fully true.

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General Revelation

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refers to knowledge about God and spiritual matters, discovered through natural means, such as observation of nature (the physical universe), philosophy and reasoning

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Hamartiology

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study of sin

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Illumination Theory

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there is an influence of the Holy Spirit on the authors of Scripture, but involving only a heightening of their normal powers, an increased sensitivity and perceptivity with regard to spiritual matters.

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Incarnation

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Jesus Christ, taking of full human nature on himself

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Inerrancy

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the doctrine that the Bible is fully truthful in all of its teachings

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Inspiration

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supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit on the Scripture writers that rendered their writings an accurate record of the revelation or that resulted in what they wrote actually being the Word of God

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Intuition Theory

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makes inspiration largely a high degree of insight

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Limited Inerrancy

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also regards the Bible as inerrant and infallible in its salvific doctrinal references. The Bible's scientific and historical references reflect the understanding current at the time it was written. The Bible writers were subject to the limitations of their time.

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Metanarrative

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in critical theory and particularly in postmodernism is a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.

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Natural Theology

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The created universe is studied to determine certain truths about God and about human nature.

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Ontological

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it is a pure-thought argument that doesn't require going outside of one's thinking

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Pluralism

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a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.

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Pneumatology

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the branch of Christian theology concerned with the Holy Spirit.

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Propositional Revelation

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Refers to God directly revealing truths about his nature to people.

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Soteriology

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the doctrine of salvation

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Supernaturalism

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belief in the doctrine of supernatural or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human events, religious revelation, etc.

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Teleological

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focuses particularly on the phenomenon of orderliness or apparent purpose in the universe

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Theology

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the study of God

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Theology Proper

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is the sub-discipline of Systematic Theology which deals specifically with the being, attributes and works of God. In a Christian setting, this study includes Trinitarian, the Holy Spirit (Pneumatology) and the study of Jesus Christ (Christology)

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Verbal Theory

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insists that the Holy Spirit's influence extends beyond the direction of thoughts to the selection of words used to convey the message

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Genesis 1:1

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the passage of scripture that we are told that before anything else came to be, God was already in existence

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John 1:14

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Scripture that refers to Christ's taking on flesh- that is becoming human

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2 Peter 1:21

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Scripture that refers to the prophets being "carried along by the Holy Spirit"

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2 Peter 3:15-16

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Scripture that refers to Paul's writings and alludes to the difficulty of understanding some things in them

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Psalm 19

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Scripture that refers to God revealing Himself to all people through nature and the cosmos

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Romans 1:18-23

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Scripture that refers to unbelievers having a "Spiritual Blindness"