MechanicalView of inspiration that believes that the Holy Spirit essentially dictated the Bible and that the human writers passively recorded what He said |
MorphemeThe smallest unit of meaning in linguistics, a small feature of words that indicates things like singular and plural and verb tenses |
MosesMan with whom God made a covenant, in which He codified the law to guide Israel, and through whom He established Israel and moved them to spread His kingdom throughout the earth. |
NoahMan with whom God made a covenant, in which He promised enduring stability of nature and in which man was to oppose corruption. |
ObjectivismApproach to knowledge that believes it is possible to arrive at impartial knowledge |
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 |
OrigenOne of the most famous early Christian teachers who was heavily influenced by the allegorical method of interpretation of Scripture, and who lived from 185 to 254 A.D. He divided the meaning of Scripture in two categories: literal and spiritual. |
Original MeaningPhrase used in this course to mean the concepts, behaviors, and emotions that the divine and human writers jointly intended a biblical document to communicate to its first audience. |
PhiloWriter from Alexandria who is considered to be the originator of the allegorical approach to interpreting Scripture |
QuadrigaIn early roman society it was a chariot drawn by four horses. In hermeneutics, it referred to an interpretive approach that considered a passage of Scripture to have four distinct meanings. |