The Holy Writ/The Bible
A collection of authoritative writings or scriptures
What is the Canon?
A theology that views the material world as evil/corrupt and salvation as deliverance from the material world. This was rejected by the early church.
What is Gnosticism?
The study of things pertaining to God
A binding agreement or treaty that governs a relationship.
What is a covenant?
The statement of faith that has united Christians of all major traditions since AD 325.
What is the Nicene Creed?
A collection of Jewish texts which were written between the Old and New Testaments. They are generally reject by Protestants as Scripture.
What is the Apocrypha?
The teaching that God is one person who revealed Himself in the successive modes of Father, Son, and then Spirit.
What is modalism?
The study of things pertaining to Chirst
What is Christology?
The effects of Adam's sin on the entire human family.
What is Original Sin?
This term is derived from the Latin terms "right" and "worship". The Nicene Creed is often used as the rule of what falls into this category.
What is "orthodoxy"?
The study of issues related to Biblical interpretation
What is Hermeneutics?
A view of the Trinity in which the Father is supreme while the Son and Spirit are lesser divine beings.
What is subordinationism?
The study of things pertaining to the church
What is Ecclesiology?
The perspective of salvation in which God chooses people on the basis of His foreknowledge of their faith decisions.
What is Arminianism?
The paragraphs of the Nicene Creed are organized into these sections.
What are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
The process by which the Holy Spirit guides human authors to communicate God's message to others, such that these human words are also called the Word of God.
What is Inspiration?
This teaching argues that the divine Son only seemed to be human, rather than truly becoming a human.
What is Docetism?
The study of things pertaining to the Holy Spirit
What is Pneumatology?
The belief that the bread and wine of the Eucharist literally become the body and blood of Christ.
What is transubstantiation?
A legendary figure who allegedly punched the heretic Arius in the face at the Council of Nicea.
Who is Saint Nicholas? (Santa Claus)
The process and practice of interpreting a text
The teaching that the Son is the first and greatest of God's creation, but is not fully divine in the same way that God is divine. This heresy was the reason for which the Council of Nicea was called.
What is Arianism?
The study of knowledge. Particularly what can be known and how it can be known.
What is Epistemology?
What is Theosis?
A Latin term meaning "and the Son" found in the Nicene Creed. The addition of this term was the catalyst of the Great Schism in AD 1054.
What is "Filioque"?