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The study of humans around the world and through time. The term derives from the Greek work "anthropos" translated as "man" into English.
What is Anthropology?
A worldview that presupposes belief in the existence of the divine, whether one God or many.
What is Theism?
The "good report" or "good news" of Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection as the means of salvation for humankind
What is Evangelical?
A deed or an event that cannot be explained by ordinary human intervention or known natural forces. In Biblical theology, something God can do that no other being is capable of.
Miracle
To the central mystery of the Christian faith that God exists as a communion of three distinct and interrelated Divine Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Trinity
A person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is right and wrong for them personally as they view the world.
Morals
God's absolute supremacy over every other being in the universe.
Sovereignty
God's being all-powerful
Omnipotence
God's being everywhere at once.
Omnipresence
In Christian theology, the belief that all people will be saved through the ministry of Jesus - Hitler, Stalin, Mao, all will be saved universally without exception.
Universalism
The belief that what happens in human life has already been determined by God.
Predestination
The study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe.
Cosmology
How worship is performed, forms of worship, the order of worship, and content of worship.
Liturgy
A physical representation of a spiritual reality usually associated with a church ritual thought to have been inaugurated by Jesus Christ.
Sacrament
An opinion different from orthodox belief or the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred.
Heresy
The study of the origin of words, how they have derived from ancient languages, and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
Etymology
Meaning of words and sentences.
Semantics
The art of persuasive speaking or writing through specialized usage of figures of speech and other compositional devices.
Rhetoric
The sequence of events that take place in the conversion of a sinner into a child of God within God's eternal covenant family.
The Order of Salvation (Latin = "Ordo Salutis")
"Creation out of nothing." God's ability to create out of nothing explains one part of God's uniqueness and virtually all of the miracles recorded in the Bible.
Ex Nihilo
A Benedictine prayer tradition of "sacred reading"; its intent is for the person praying to meet God through the Scriptures.
Lectio Divina
Committed when the arguer diverts attention from the subject of debate to a different but closely related topic. They then based their criticisms on the substitute rather than the original argument.
Red Herring Fallacy
An original model on which something was patterned or replicated; the ideal example of a particular type of person or thing.
Archetype
Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural attitude prioritizing cultural pluralism, moral relativism, unconditional tolerance, situational ethics, and the limitations of empirical science in universal truth.
Post-Modernism
A form of theological inquiry that aims to arrange and categorize religious truths into an internally consistent system.
Systematic Theology