How about some terms?
What is Gnosticism?
Christ is the center of all doctrine, thought & practice
What is Christocentric?
Elevation of the Bible to almost a divine status
What is Bibliolotry?
religious or philosophical discipline of defending doctrines or beliefs through systematic arguments & discources
What is apologetics?
Idea that the Bible accomplishes its purpose without fail
What is infallibility?
Collection of scripture that disregards or excludes the Hebrew scritpures, Matthew & James in an attempt to "de-Judaize"
What is Marcion's canon?
Three recognized as God
Regarded as three distinct persons
Immanent & eternal
United in essence
No inequality
Explains all other doctrines but itself inscrutable
What is Strong's TRIUNE?
What is Kenosis?
Any identifiable error in the Bible must have gotten there after the first originally perfect text
What are original autographs?
Bible is without error
What is inerrancy?
"the Word" or the Son of God as not being equal with the Father, but a great creature
What is Logos?
Early church movement that strongly emphasized things like prophecy, tongues, etc; direct inspired speech from God
What is Montanism, Patrick?
Identifies God with the Father & demotes Jesus Christ & the Holy Spirit as beneath Him
What is Subordination?
"Center of gravity" of Christian though that's existed over time; the thread that unites
What is the Great Tradition?
Trinity as if the Godhead were a committee; implicit (hardly ever implicit) belief in Father, Son & Holy Spirit as three separate beings
What is Tritheism?
Promoted a form of adoptionism in which Jesus Christ is nothing more than a "fully God-conscious man," "the human face of God," or "God's representative among men"
What is Unitarianism?
"and the Son" - added to the Nicene Creed to state that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the father "and the son"
What is Filioque?
Everyone is free to believe whatever seems right, often leading to chaos; "It's all relative!"
What is Relativism?
Asks, What is the Church & it's role?
What is Ecclesiology?
Asks, "What is Salvation?"
What is Soteriology?
States there are two ways to miss the mark; overemphasize or understate; Truth found in the tensions
What is Aristotle's "Golden Mean" of Theology?
Revelation occurs in 3 forms:
1- Revealed in Jesus
2- Written in Scritpure
3- Preached by the Church
What is Barth's threefold Word of God?
Human rebellion & moral failure damage twist & undermine the human mind/capacity to reason; general or natural revelation is not enough
What is the Noetic effect of sin?
Strand of theology that traces roots to enlightenment; feeling of absolute dependence & smallness in the face of the cosmos; generative sense of awe that gives rise to all kinds of religious movements testifying to the same religious experience that all humans have in common
What is Liberal Theology?
2nd century Roman heretic that taught Judaism was not a precursor to Christianity and attempted to de-Judaize
Who is Marcion?