AccommodationWhen speaking of divine revelation, it means that God designed the message to be understood by the original audience in their own context. |
AnthropomorphismIt refers to the way God sometimes speaks or behaves in ways that seem almost human. |
ExegesisTheological term for the process of analyzing a Bible passage. It means literally to "lead out" the meaning. |
GutenbergHe invented the printing press in the 15th century. |
HermeneuticsThe study of how to interpret the meaning and significance of Scripture |
HexaplaA work (now lost) of over 50 volumes written by Origen of Alexandria, in which he made a word-by-word comparison of various Hebrew and Greek versions of the Old Testament |
IlluminationThe Holy Spirit’s work of conveying a proper understanding of Scripture to a human being |
InspirationTheological term used to refer to the way in which the Holy Spirit moved human beings to write God’s revelation as Scripture and superintended their work in a way that made their writings infallible |
MechanicalView of inspiration that believes that the Holy Spirit essentially dictated the Bible and that the human writers passively recorded what He said |
OrganicView of inspiration that believes that the Holy Spirit used the personalities, experiences, outlooks, and intentions of human authors as he supervised and directed their writing |