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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. | |
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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. | |
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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 | |
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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 | |