Meaning power / power over, as in the debate about human dominion over the world.
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Double Predestination
God predestines some to the Kingdom through His grace but leaves others immersed in their sin to be condemned to hell.
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Eco-theology
the approach to environmental issues focusing on establishing the right relationship between religion and nature.
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Eschatological
To do with the last days, that is, the last Judgement / God’s Kingdom.
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Foreknowledge
When applied to God, the doctrine that an all-knowing God knows the entire future, so knows from eternity who will accept the gift of grace and who will reject it.
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Grace
God’s grace is seen as the free gift of mercy to sinful humanity, for example, through the atonement made by the suffering and death of Jesus.
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Intrinsic Value
Something that has value for its own sake, for example, human life in the Sanctity of Life Principle.
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Ius ad Bellum
Latin for the laws / conditions under which it is legitimate to go to war.
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Ius in Bello
Latin for the rules under which a war must be fought once begun.
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Justification
When used in ‘justification by faith’ and justification by works’ – Christians are counted as righteous before God on the basis of faith or by works, or by both.
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Predestination
The view that all events have been willed by God from eternity, specifically the fate of the righteous and of the damned.
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Sanctity
As in the Sanctity of Life Principle: holy / sacred to God.
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Sanctity of Life Principle
The idea, based on the concepts of (1) being made in God’s image and (2) having (uniquely) a soul, that human life is sacred to God.
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Sola Fide
Latin, refers to Luther’s doctrine of justification by ‘faith alone’.
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Stewardship
The view that ‘dominion’ over the environment should be understood as responsible human care for it, on the understanding that humans are answerable to God for their treatment of the environment.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Meaning power / power over, as in the debate about human dominion over the world.
Back
Dominion
Card 3
Front
God predestines some to the Kingdom through His grace but leaves others immersed in their sin to be condemned to hell.
Back
Card 4
Front
the approach to environmental issues focusing on establishing the right relationship between religion and nature.
Back
Card 5
Front
To do with the last days, that is, the last Judgement / God’s Kingdom.
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