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Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 3:54 AM
Site: Thirdmill Online Courses
Course: Building Your Theology HD (eBYThd)
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

Anthropology

In theology, it means the study of the doctrine of man.
C

Calvin

Key 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

Christology

The doctrine of Christ
D

Deference

Respectful submission to the judgment of another

Dogma

According 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 controversy and decided in favor of the Five Points of Calvinism

E

Ecclesiology

The doctrine of the church

Erasmus

Humanist author from the time of the Reformation