Developments in Christian Thought Key Terms

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Agape
The unconditional love God has for humans that humans need to try to reflect
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Alienation
The estrangement of people from what they are meant to be; degrading a person into a thing or an object
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Anonymous Christian
Someone who is open to God's grace but not a Christian
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Beatific vision
The state of eternal happiness when we are face-to-face with God
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Concupiscence
The idea that our natural perfected state has been wounded so that we are not bad, but always inclined to sin
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Conscience
The inner sense of right and wrong in a person, sometimes describved as an internal voice
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Costly grace
The idea that the free gift of grace demands a response of true, sacraficial discipleship - total abandonment to Christ and to be Christ-like in your attitude
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Deontological
Duty-based approach to ethics
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Divinity
The divine aspect of Jesus - the part of Jesus that is God
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Double predestination
The view (held by calvinists) that God chooses who will go to Heaven and who will go to Hell
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Election
Being chosen by God for either Heaven or Hell
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Evangelism
Spreading the Christian message
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Fall
The moment when Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the fruit from the forbidden tree; humans are 'fallen' because of this moment
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Final judgement
The judgement of all nations at the end of time
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Forgive
To let go of past anger and move on
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Grace
God's generous, undeserved and free act of love for the world through Jesus
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Hermeneutic of suspicion
The process of interpreting the Bible (hermeneutics) by asking questions that have not been asked before to challenge traditional or official interpretations; in the context of liberation theology, its focus is on economic motivations
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Human nature
The essential sense of what all humans are like; shared characteristics
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Human will
For Augustine, given to humans by God at creation to make choices. It is driven by self-love and generous love, which work together to help people choose to love God properly
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Incarnation
God becoming a human being in Jesus Christ
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Infantile
Childish; for Freud, this referred to the earliest stage of a person's development
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Innate
Natural. An innate sense of the divine is something we are born wit, not one we aquire
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Liberator
Someone who frees a person or a group of people
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Limited election
The view that only some people are chosen to be saved
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Morals
A set of principles linked to doing right actions
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Natural theology
Use of reason and observation of the world to come to a knowledge of God
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Neurosis
A mental illness with symptoms of stress, such as anxiety and obsessive behaviour
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Non-propositional revelation
The idea that God does not reveal himself through truth statements, so the revelation might need to be interpretated
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Normative way to salvation
The usual way to be saved, but not necessarily the only one
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Original Sin
The state that humans were brought into by the Fall, which was the first sin
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Orthodoxy
Right belief; the official beliefs of the Church
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Orthopraxis
Right action
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Parousia
Used of the second coming of Christ, when Jesus will return to the world
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Particular judgement
Individual judgement at the moment of death
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Patriarchy
Male-dominated; a patriarchal society is one where men have more power than women
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Praxis
Understanding a situation and then bringing abour change in it; a critical reflective process that moves from theory to action
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Predestination
The idea that God chooses and guides some people to salvation
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Preferential option for the poor
The idea that the needs of the poor must be prioritise at all times
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Propistitional revelation
The idea that God reveals himself through truth statements
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Purgatory
The Catholic belief in a state of cleansing that takes place before someone enters Heaven
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Religionless Christianity
Bonhoeffer's idea that Christianity should get rid of old-fashioned ideas and seperate itself from present ideologies
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Restricted access exclusivism
Salvation comes from hearing the Christian message and accepting it into your life
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Revealed theology
The idea that God reveals what we need to know about him to us in different ways
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Revelation
Literally uncovering something that was previously hidden to us
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Reversal
The idea that justice in the kingdom of God is about reversing the opportunities of those on earth
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Secular
Non-religious
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Secularisation
The process of making society more secular by removing the influence of religious institutions
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Sensus divinitas
A sense of God, used by Calvin to talk about an innate sense within us all
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Sin
Turning away from the will of God
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Single predestination
The (Catholic) view that God chooses who goes to Heaven
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Social cohesion
A society that works well together - has a sense of identity and community
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Solidarity
The idea that Christians must be 'for others'
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Spirituality
Being concerned with the deepest questions of life; being open to the divine
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Summon bonum
Highest or greatest good
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Universal access exclusivism
The idea that God wishes everyone to be saved
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Universalism
The view that everyone will be saved
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Unlimited election
The view that everyone is called to be saved but only a few will be
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The estrangement of people from what they are meant to be; degrading a person into a thing or an object

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The state of eternal happiness when we are face-to-face with God

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