Christian Worldview II Vocab Week 6

a universal statement of Christian belief developed by the 4th century, not written by the apostles but summarizes Apostolic beliefs found in the OT and NT

the theological teaching of Arius (ca. AD 250–336) concerning the relationship of God to the Son of God, Jesus. Arius believed the Son of God was a subordinate entity to God the Father

the rejection of belief in the existence of deities

including or concerned with all people, universal

a formal summary of the beliefs of the Christian faith

a belief that God has set the universe in motion but does not interfere with how it runs

an early heresy that claimed that Jesus Christ was not a real person

the study of the development, nature, structure and purpose of the Church

era covering the 17th and 18th centuries wherein mankind removed itself from external authorities as the bible, the church and the state

a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin of how we know what we know

the study of the last days surrounding Christ’s second coming particularly as it relates to the restoration of all things as the consummation of Christ’s work

the symbolic bread and wine eaten and drunk during Communion or The Lord’s Supper

arriving at a reasonable and intended meaning of a biblical passage, while viewing the passage in its historical and grammatical context

late 19th- and 20th-century belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject – I exist, therefore I am

an early Christian religious teaching that salvation comes by learning mystical truths that free humanity from the evil material world

God is unchanging in His nature, desire, and purpose, yet able to interact with an ever changing universe

contradictory statements cannot both be true at the same time, e.g. the two propositions "A is B" and "A is not B" are contradictory statements

used in John 1 to refer to the Second Person of the Trinity, God the Son, who, as ‘the word’, is the creative agent of all things, a reference back to the Genesis 1 account of creation

the set of cognitive capacities that enables consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, memory, etc.

the nontrinitarian belief that the God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are different modes or aspects of one God

describes those who believed the "traditional” forms of art, religious faith, social organization were becoming outdated in the new social and political conditions of an industrialized world

theories teaching that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality

an approach that rejects all spiritual and supernatural explanations of the world and holds that science is the sole basis of what can be known

belief that moral truths exist independently of the individual mind or perception

the extraordinary use of ordinary means to accomplish an intended purpose. Jesus used these to proclaim His deity, bless mankind, and glorify God the Father

the belief that there is only one God. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam embrace this belief; only Christianity’s one God is eternal, self-existent outside the created order, and triune in nature

God possesses the strength, authority, control, and presence to accomplish all His holy will, though He cannot contradict His own nature, i.e., God cannot lie

God knows and comprehends all things – past, present, and future

the idea that certain statements accurately embody the revealed truth content of Christianity and are normative for the universal Church

a philosophical view that a concept should be evaluated in terms of how it works and rather than being right or wrong