Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 6:34 AM
Site: Birmingham Theological Seminary
Course: Building Systematic Theology (Building Systematic Theology)
Glossary: Glossary for Lessons 1-3

Dualism

Belief that the spiritual world is good, but the material world is evil

Rationalism

Belief system that emphasizes the uses of reason and human reflection

Mysticism

Belief system that emphasizes the need to go beyond reason to receive revelation through spiritual ecstasy

Scholasticism

School of theology during the medieval period, that put great emphasis on the use of Aristotelian logic

Orthodoxy

Correct thinking

Orthopraxis

Correct living

Orthopathos

Correct feeling

Justification

It sometimes means a person is declared righteous when he believes in Christ, as in Romans 3:28, and it sometimes means a person is shown to be righteous in his way of life, as in James 2:24.

Sanctification

This term can refer to several different aspects of righteousness: a. first righteousness, or definitive righteousness for Christians, b. progressive ongoing holiness in Christians, and c. being set apart from the rest of the world, even though a person is not a Christian.

Proposition

A meaningful sentence that declares something which can be evaluated either as true or as false.