Christian theology

Christian theology

The systematic study of the nature of God and religion.

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Donatism

Religion; Christian theology

A movement, centering upon Roman North Africa in the fourth century, which developed a rigorist view of the church and sacraments.

dialectical theology

Religion; Christian theology

The early views of the Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968), which emphasized the "dialectic" between God and humanity.

A term originally coined by William Tyndale to translate the Latin term reconciliatio, which has since come to have the developed meaning of "the work of Christ" or "the benefits of Christ gained for ...

Five Ways, the

Religion; Christian theology

A standard term for the five "arguments for the existence of God" especially associated with Thomas Aquinas.

perichoresis

Religion; Christian theology

A term relating to the doctrine of the Trinity, often also referred to by the Latin term circumincession. The basic notion is that all three persons of the Trinity mutually share in the life of the ...

synoptic problem

Religion; Christian theology

The scholarly question of how the three synoptic gospels relate to each other. Perhaps the most common approach to the issue is the "two source" theory, which claims that Matthew and Luke used Mark ...

orthodoxy

Religion; Christian theology

A term used in a number of senses, of which the following are the most important: Orthodoxy in the sense of "right belief," as opposed to heresy (see pp. 145-9); orthodoxy in the sense of a movement ...