Friday, 3 May 2024, 1:30 AM
Site: Birmingham Theological Seminary
Course: Building Your Theology (Building Your Theology)
Glossary: Glossary for Lessons 1-4
A
Analog Used to describe a quality of thinking where we recognize various degrees of confidence in certain beliefs |
AnthropologyIn theology, it means the study of the doctrine of man. |
B
BinaryReferring to its dual aspect, this term is used to describe a kind of thinking that tends to put beliefs into one of two categories, things we know and things we don't know. |
C
CalvinKey Reformer and theologian. Wrote the Institutes of Christian Religion. |
Cassian Medieval theologian (360-435 AD) who believed that a passage of Scripture had four different kinds of meanings |
ChristologyThe doctrine of Christ |
D
DeferenceRespectful submission to the judgment of another |
Dispensationalism Theological school of thought that tends to emphasize the differences between the Old Testament and the New Testament |
DogmaAccording to the medieval church, these were unquestionable doctrines established by the church councils. |
Dordt Name of city in Holland where a synod debated the Arminian contoversy and decided in favor of the Five Points of Calvinism |