The Trinity
What is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
This Greek word, the most common word for sin used in the Bible, literally means to miss the mark.
What is hamartia?
These two orthodox terms denote God as both near to, deeply concerned, and involved in, and far above creation
What are immanence and transcendence?
Perhaps the most common way for Western Christians to describe God, He demonstrated this characteristic by sending His Son to die for us.
What is love?
This famous Saint and Theologian once said, "our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee".
Who is St. Augustine?
What is modalism?
This theory of atonement focuses on the cosmic battle and spiritual warfare between God and the devil, culminating in Christ's ultimate victory, which frees humanity from sin and evil.
What is the Christus Victor View?
The belief that prior to a period of catastrophic suffering, God's chosen will be raptured to escape God's wrath.
What is pre-tribulation theology?
This characteristic of God describes Him as infinitely pure, not tainted by darkness or corruption, and entirely set apart.
What is holiness?
The church is described as this, which is given to the community of believers as a result of God's will and decision.
What is a gift?
The interpenetrating communal love between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
What is Perichoresis?
This was the traditional process of transferring guilt onto a lamb or goat to be sent off into the wilderness to separate sin from the nation of Israel, and was fulfilled in our sins being placed onto Christ.
What is expiation?
The Latin phrase denotes that God's act of creation was "out of nothing".
What is Ex Nihilo?
These three "omni" words describe God's power, knowledge, and proximity.
What is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent?
Contrary to Calvinistic beliefs, Karl Barth argues that God first did this action of appointment unto the Son, opening the door for adoption for all humanity.
What is election?
This understanding of the Trinity refers to the way things are ordered and carried out, specifically the way in which God ordered the salvation of humanity and the oikonomia.
The Economic Trinity
This Frenchman proposed that sin is a product of our ignorance, so God sent His Son to teach os how to live rightly, providing us salvation from understanding.
Who is Peter Abelard?
The supposed soul sleep between death and new life in heaven that Paul ultimately disproves.
What is the intermediate state?
This characteristic of God describes His essential invulnerability to suffering.
What is impassible?
Karl Barth argues that evil came in on the underside of creation, and when God said yes to creation, He said no to this concept, which is evil.
What is evil as nothingness?
The Council of Constantinople (381) determined that God is one ___ in three ___, relating God's indistinguishable essence to His distinguishable persons.
What is one ousia in three hypostases?
The healing view of atonement sees a need to be restored to this state, also a word meaning peace, that is, the full freedom from both physical and spiritual sickness.
What is Shalom?
This argument for God's existence states that because of the existence of all creation, there must be a creator that is itself not created, and due to God's infinite perfection, the conditions necessary for God to exist could not possibly have been absent.
What is the argument from contingency?
This characteristic defines God as being unable to change essentially.
What is immutable?
Miroslav Volf described theology as this, a term usually used for disciplines more concerned with physical or empirical experimentation.
What is a practical science?