ubiquitism

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ism.

The offers of several Lutheran divines—opponents of ubiquitism —to write a reply, were declined by the Bishops.

1885, Edmund De Schweinitz, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, page 417:

This note is then immediately followed by a discussion about another process of 'usurpation' in connection with place: that of transubstantiation and the doctrine of ubiquitism.

1999, Jas Elsner, Jaś Elsner, John Elsner, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, page 112:

She argues this in express critique of Luther's “ubiquitism” that supposedly stretches Jesus out everywhere.

2015, Paul R. Hinlicky, Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, page 604:

(theology, Christianity) The belief that the human nature of Christ is omnipresent.


allegorism

en-noun

allegorism (usually uncountable, plural allegorisms)

He goes so far as to affirm that in Scripture 'all has a spiritual meaning, but not everything has a literal meaning' (De princ. 2,3,5). We have here the point of departure for all the exaggerations of medieval allegorism.

2000, Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis Vol 2: The Four Senses Of Scripture, page 277:

The issue of the merits or demerits of allegorism became pronounced at the close of the 13th century and was keenly contested in the polemical literature of the second Maimonidean controversy.

2007, Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum, Encyclopaedia Judaica - Volume 3, page 645:

(theology) The belief that the primary value and significance of what is earthly and tangible is the way it points to the divine.


hyper-Calvinism

(theology) A branch of Protestant theology that emphasizes limited atonement to the point of exclusively proselytizing to the elect and/or denying the responsibility of humanity in salvation.


aspective

The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.

1915, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind, page 507:

We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.

1977, William Powell Tuck, The Struggle for Meaning, page 78:

While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.

1985, Wallace Charles Smith, The Church in the Life of the Black Family, page 50:

The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.

2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism:

(philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.


unbegottenness

(theology) The quality of being unbegotten.


vowelist

(theology) One who maintains that the vowel points in Hebrew Scripture are part of the original text and thus of divine rather than human origin.


Elistic

From El + -istic, relative adjective to Elism.

In due time she conceived and bore a son who was given the Elistic name שְׁמוּאֵל (1 Sam 1:20), […]

1989, Choon-Leong Seow, Myth, Drama, and the Politics of David's Dance (Harvard Semitic Monograph; 46), Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, published 2018, →ISBN, page 30:

Some scholars adopting the Qenite hypothesis in its original or modified form, which supposes that the Qenites were the mediators of the Yahwistic cult to Israel, assume that Yhwh was a North Arabian storm god, a rival of the Canaanite Baal who gradually adopted Elistic qualities.

2001, Bob Becking, Meindert Dijkstra, Marjo Korpel, Karel Vriezen, Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel, London • New York: Sheffield Academic Press, →ISBN, page 94:

The Arabic tradition transmits a number of South Arabian elistic personal names of the type verb+<ʾīl>. […] In this paper, I look at the elistic names s²rḥʾl / s²rhbʾl and compare them with how they occur in non-Arabic sources. […] A similar elistic name is that of tawbīl, which corresponds to ṯwbʾl in the ESA corpora. […] If the hamza would have been retained when the South Arabian elistic names were borrowed into Arabic and lost at a later moment in time, one would expect […] In the North Arabian Arabic inscriptions written in Greek, elistic names in which the theophoric element occurs in post-vocalic position are consistently spelled with epsilon […] Conclusions […] That this vowel was originally long and was not the result of compensatory lengthening is further supported by the attestation of other South Arabian onomastics in Arabic, as well as by Greek transcriptions of South Arabian elistic names.

2021, Imar Y. Koutchoukali, “12: The quantity of the vowel <i> in the Sabaic word for God (ʾl): evidence from Arabic and Greek sources”, in George Hatke, Ronald Ruzicka, editors, South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity. “Out of Arabia”, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN:

Containing reference to the Semitic god ʔil.


mark of the beast

mark of the beast (plural marks of the beast)

From Middle English, 1350–1400; earliest use in Wycliffe's Bible. Calque of Ancient Greek χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου (kháragma toû thēríou).

calque

χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου

[And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 13:16–18:

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:1–2:

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 19:19–20:

'Tis much disputed who Antichrist is,
I think 'tis the Rump, nor am I in jest,
For indeed, although of the number it miss,
Of this I am sure 'thas the mark of the Beast.

1662, “Saint George for England”, in Rump: or An Exact Collection Of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times, volume II, London: Henry Brome, Henry Marsh, →OCLC, page 126:

Now a man may be said to receive the mark of the beast in his forehead, when as a man doth worship in that form and manner, as is set up by the beast's authority willingly, then doth a man receive the mark in his forehead. And when a man receives the mark of the beast in his right hand, it is when men do worship, and bow down to that form of worship, or image set up by the beast against a man's own mind, or unwillingly, for fear he shall suffer if he do it not. This is to receive the mark of the beast in his right hand. For if the mark of the beast be not seen in the forehead, or in the right hand, they shall either be killed or not suffered to trade ; that is, to buy and sell; one of these he must be sure to suffer if he hath not the mark in either of those two places, aforesaid. That is, if the people do not come to the public worship set up by the beast, either willingly or unwillingly, it was known that they had not received the mark of the beast, neither in the forehead, nor in the right hand.

1662, Lodowicke Muggleton, A True Interpretation of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation of St. John (Religion), published 1753, page 177:

17. That no man might buy or sell—Such edicts have been published long since against the poor Vaudois; but he that had the mark, namely, the name of the first beast, or the number of his name—The name of the beast is that which he bears through his whole duration, viz. that of papa or pope. The number of his name is the whole time during which he bears this name. Whosoever therefore receives the mark of the beast, does as much as if he said expressly, " I acknowledge the present papacy as proceeding from God:" or, " I acknowledge that what St. Gregory VII. has done according to his legend, (authorized from Benedict XIII.,) and what has been maintained in virtue thereof, by his successors to this day, is from God." By the former, a man hath the name of the beast, as a mark; by the latter, the number of his name. In a word, to have the name of the beast is to acknowledge his papal holiness: to have the number of his name is to acknowledge the papal succession. The second beast will enforce the receiving this mark, under the severest penalties.

1755, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, 12th edition (Religion), New York: Carlton & Porter, published 1856, →OCLC, page 705:

Floridalma Galvez, 34, said the calls and WhatsApp messages began weeks before any vaccine was approved, from cousins in Chicago, Florida and her native Guatemala: The vaccine was “the mark of the beast,” they told her, a reference to Satan or the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation.

2021 February 11, Teo Armus, “Among Latino immigrants, false vaccine claims are spreading as fast as the virus”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2021-02-12:

(theology, eschatology) a mark on the person of worshippers of the Antichrist; without the mark one cannot buy or sell.


nihilianism

(theology, Christianity) A doctrine stating that, Christ's essence being divine, his human nature was nothing.


neo-orthodoxy

Neoorthodoxy (alternative)
Neo-Orthodoxy (alternative)
Neo-orthodoxy (alternative)

(Christianity, theology) A theological movement developed in the aftermath of World War I, largely a reaction against doctrines of 19th-century liberal theology and a reevaluation of the teachings of the Reformation.


historical-grammatical

historico-grammatical (alternative)
grammatico-historical (alternative)

(theology) Alternative form of historico-grammatical.


grammatico-historical

historico-grammatical (alternative)
historical-grammatical (alternative)


abnormalist

On the other hand, there is the worldview represented by the abnormalists, who insist that the cosmos is in an aberrant state because a fundamental disturbance has taken place in the past which can only be remedied by a regenerating power that can restore it to its original goals (theism).

2002, David K. Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept, page 21:

Abnormalists, in contrast, view the world as fundamentally broken, skewed or distorted. Christians believe that we live in an abnormal state—biologically, socially, psychologically, volitionally, emotionally—[…]

2009, Mark R. McMinn, Clark D. Campbell, Integrative Psychotherapy, page 289:

(Christianity, theology) One who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence.


apotelesma

It is further to be observed, that although both the Natures in Christ remaine distinct […] both Natures doe that which is proper vnto them, but with Communion of each with other. This Communion is the concurrence of both Natures in the same Person by their severall proper actions, to the producing of one Apotelesma or outward effect pertaining to our Salvation.

1633, John Downe, Certaine treatises of the late reverend and learned divine, Mr Iohn Downe, page 60:

Satisfaction is […] looked on as a real act or operation of one or the other nature in Christ, when it is the apotelesma or effect of the actings, the doing and suffering of Christ – the dignity of what he did in reference unto the end for which he did it. For the two natures are so united in Christ as not to have a third compound principle of physical acts and operations thence arising; but each nature acts distinctly according to its own being and properties, yet so as what is the immediate act of either nature is the act of him who is one in both; from whence it has its dignity.

1669, John Owen, “On the Satisfaction of Christ”, in A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity:

[25][…]Holl. (728) further enumerates the apotelesmata of Christ, as of a twofold order. The divine nature of the λόγος cannot affect some things except by a union with flesh[…]; other things, from his free good pleasure or purpose, he does not will to effect without flesh (for example, miracles).

1876, Heinrich Schmid, translated by Charles A. Hay and Henry E. Jacobs, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, page 360:

Leontius of Byzantium calls the result of this retrospective reconstruction – from the trinitarian Son through the creation of human physis to the enhypostasis – an apotelesma. That is an important shift compared to Chalcedon: the apotelesma, the result of the whole process, is not the hypostasis as such, because the hypostasis – as the hypostasis of the second person of the Trinity – is the hegemonikon principle from the very beginning. The apotelesma, the final point, is the retrospectively reconstructed enhypostatical union of the person of Jesus Christ.

2021, Mohr Siebeck, The Perspective of Resurrection: A Trinitarian Christology, page 106:

(theology) The end result or fulfilment, especially concerning the hypostatic union of Christ's divine and human natures.


propositionalism

(theology) The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.


volipresence

(theology) A form of omnipresence in which an entity is present wherever it wishes to be.


Christiform

(theology, Christianity) Formed like, or acting in accordance with, Christ.


begottenness

(theology) The quality of being begotten.


Aphthartodocetism

/ˌæfθɑːrtəˈdɒsɪˌtɪzəm/

From Ancient Greek ἀφθαρτοδοκητισμός (aphthartodokētismós), derived from Ancient Greek ἀφθαρτος (aphthartos, “incorruptible”) + Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem, I appear”).

der

ἀφθαρτοδοκητισμός

(Christianity, theology, historical, philosophy) The doctrines of the Aphthartodocetae. A Christological doctrine that taught that Christ's body was naturally incorruptible and not subject to physical suffering, associated with the 6th-century Monophysite theologian Julian of Halicarnassus.


triunitarianism

Triunitarianism (alternative)
tri-unitarianism (alternative)
Tri-unitarianism (alternative)
Tri-Unitarianism (alternative)

(theology) Trinitarianism; the Christian doctrine which asserts that God's nature is triune.


underivedly

(theology) Without having been derived from something else; originally.


dogmatic theology

en-noun

dogmatic theology (countable and uncountable, plural dogmatic theologies)

(theology) The part of theology dealing with the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and God's works, especially the official theology recognized by an organized Church body.


unorigination

the unorigination of the Father

(theology) The property of not having originated, but having always existed.


kindom

From kin (“relatives”) + -dom as a more egalitarian or gender-neutral alternative to kingdom.

Jesus continued, "What does the kindom [KJV kingdome] of God resemble? To what will I liken it? […]

1994, Priests for Equality, The Inclusive New Testament, Altamira Press, →ISBN, Luke 13:18, page 126:

The assumption will of be that the concretization of God's kindom always involves an oikonomia or household.

2002, Michael Crosby, The Prayer that Jesus Taught Us, Orbis Books, →ISBN, page 97:

But this is not the Kindom of God that Jesus proclaimed. Let us consider the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price. The Kindom involves both search and surprise.

2019 July 7, Catherine Maresca, “The Pearl and the Hidden Treasure”, in Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Children Understand Challenging Stories, Liturgy Training Publications, →ISBN, page 24:

(theology, neologism) A divinely-instituted egalitarian community.


king of the north

There the dragon muſtering all his forces doth goe to a place called Armageddon , to cut off, and deſtroy utterly , but he doth bring deſtruction upon himſelfe , for that next viall doth powre out the laſt deſtruction upon all Gods enemies. Here the King of the North ſhall goe forth with great furie in the glorious holy mountaine , to deſtroy , and utterly cut off many , but he ſhal come to his end , and none ſhal help him.

1664, Thomas Brightman, The Revelation of Saint Iohn, Illustrated with Analysis and Scholions, →OCLC, page 313, column 2:

We're living in electrifying days of fulfillment of ancient Biblical prophecies. At just the time that the predicted King of the North is making obvious moves toward securing a foothold in the Middle East, and that whole part of the world has become the focal point of all nations, this clear and timely exposition of Ezekiel 38 and 39 setting forth Russia as this King of the North couldn't be more relevant.

1974, Hal Lindsey, “Foreward”, in The Coming Russian Invasion of Israel, Chicago: Moody Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:

²¹ With the disbanding of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the king of the north suffered a serious setback.

1999, Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy!, Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, →OCLC, →OL, page 280:

2. The Gog of Ezekiel 38 is the same leader as the king of the North of Daniel 11:40.[…]
4. Gog, representing Russia (as the king of the North), invades Israel and is defeated by God, or is defeated by the Antichrist.

2006, Douglas Berner, “Parallel Passages in Scripture to Ezekiel 38-39?”, in The Silence is Broken! God Hooks Ezekiel's Gog & Magog, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 246:

(theology, eschatology) A major leader in Armageddon, in modern religious speculation often identified with Russia.


Neo-orthodox

(Christianity, theology) Of or relating to neo-orthodoxy.


hypostatic union

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin ūniō hypostatica, from Byzantine Greek ἕνωσις καθ’ ὑπόστασιν (hénōsis kath’ hupóstasin, literally “union according to the hypostasis”).

der

ἕνωσις καθ’ ὑπόστασιν

(theology) In Chalcedonian Christianity, the unity of the two natures of Jesus Christ, divine and human, in a single individual person or hypostasis.


subdevil

(theology) A lesser devil: one subordinate to an archdevil.


inscripturate

en-verb

inscripturate (third-person singular simple present inscripturates, present participle inscripturating, simple past and past participle inscripturated)

inscripturates (present singular third-person)
inscripturating (participle present)
inscripturated (participle past)
inscripturated (past)
enscripturate (alternative)

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊˌɹeɪt/

From in- + scripture + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

(transitive, theology) To put or make into scripture; to record or write in scripture:

To incorporate into scripture; to include within scripture.

To communicate or express through the medium or form of scripture.


inscripturate

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəɹɪt/

/ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊɹɪt/

From in- + scripture + -ate (participial adjective-forming suffix).

(theology, often used postpositively) Put or made into scripture; recorded or written in scripture; inscripturated:

Incorporated into scripture; included within scripture.

If Jesus was the divine–human word incarnate, the Bible was seen as the divine–human word inscripturate.

1998 April 8, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd.

Communicated or expressed through the medium or form of scripture.


inscripturated

enscripturated (alternative)
enscriptured (alternative)

...what we think about the incarnate Word of God, Jesus Christ, will run parallel with what we think about the inscripturated Word of God, the Bible.

1998, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd. 8 April 1998

(theology, often used postpositively) Put or made into scripture; recorded, written, or included in scripture; inscripturate.


infernalism

en-noun

infernalism (countable and uncountable, plural infernalisms)

From infernal + -ism. First attested in 1795, popularised in the theological sense in the 2000s–10s.

To these conceptions Protestant churches will gradually yield, and while still nominally the same in their faith, its infernalism will disappear, and the idea of future punishment will become a rational instead of a diabolical picture of Divine justice.

1853 August, “The Onward Movement”, in Joseph R. Buchanan, editor, Buchanan’s Journal of Man, volume 4, number 8, page 228:

Sheltered in my tiny corner of Christendom, like many evangelicals I was unaware of […] alternative prespectives on hell that did not transform God into a wrathful tyrant-judge who consigns the unrepentant to Dante-tesque tortures for eternity. As it turns out, the view of hell with which I grew up—infernalism—is only one of several options […]

2009, Brad Jersak, Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem, →ISBN:

Embedded within his argument is the view that infernalism is a less severe form of retributive punishment than annihilationism; […]

2022, A. G. Holdier, “Comments on ‘Is Annihilation More Severe than Eternal Conscious Torment?’”, in Southwest Philosophy Review, volume 38, number 2, page 43:

(theology) Belief in the existence of hell, especially as a place of eternal and conscious torment after death.


infernalist

(theology) One who believes in infernalism.


adiaphorization

(theology) The act of making into an adiaphoron.


angelomorphic

From angel + -o- + -morphic. First attested in the 19th century, but popularised after the 1950s on the basis of French angélomorphique as used in the work of Jean Daniélou.

Other early Christian texts describe Christ in angelomorphic or angelic categories. For instance, in the Pseudo-Clementines Christ is ascribed the role of an archangel and becomes identified with Michael […]

2005, Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann, The Destroyer and the Lamb […], →ISBN, page 80:

This larger theological articulation results in a quasi-Trinitarian structure of the divine world, featuring the Father, the Son/Spirit, and the angelomorphic Spirit.

2007, Bogdan G. Bucur, The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism, page 4:

For Fletcher-Louis the sectarian use of angelic descriptors (angelomorphic language) in reference to the high priest strongly implies an angelic transformation such that the priest is both “functionally and ontologically angelic”.

2017, Christine Hayes, “‘The Torah was not Given to Ministering Angels’: Rabbinic Aspirationalism”, in Charlotte Fonrobert et al., editors, Talmudic Transgression: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin, →ISBN, page 135:

(theology) Having the form of an angel; representing a specified person or object in such a manner.


trichotomism

(theology) The belief that human beings are made up of three distinct components: body or flesh, soul, and spirit.


dichotomism

(theology) The belief that the human being is formed of two components: material (body or flesh) and spiritual (soul or spirit).


trichotomist

(theology) A person who believes that human beings are made up of three distinct components: body, soul, and spirit.


destructionism

(theology) A belief in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked.


TWOT

As noted in TWOT 1:132, its roots and derivatives occur 415 times in the Hebrew Bible: 214 times it appears in the Piel stem, which is always translated “to bless.”

2019, Terry L. Cross, The People of God's Presence: An Introduction to Ecclesiology, Baker Academic, →ISBN:

(theology) Acronym of Theological wordbook of the Old Testament.


archaeologism

From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos) + λόγος (lógos, “word”).

Here is a liturgical revival which is within the potentialities of the humblest parish church or chapel and which is in no danger of degenerating into archaeologism, ritualism or aestheticism.

Paraliturgies are especially helpful to show the student the style of liturgical procedure, and start situating him for initiation into deeper faith. This assists sacramental pedagogy to escape the accusation of archaeologism or "another class", and rather helps students experience involvement in the sacramental idea.

1966, Catechetics: a theology of proclamation, page 73:

He also objects to something else, however, namely, "the romantic archaeologism of certain professors of liturgy who would throw out everything done after Gregory the Great as being an excrescence and a sign of decadence.

(theology) the use of ponderous, old-fashioned language.


heteroousia

(theology) The quality of being heteroousian.


law of correspondence

Originally after the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. See correspondence.

And we look about us, and see what kind of things the law of correspondence has filled the world with. For we know that the things of this world are such as they are, that they may correspond with the things of our souls.

1839, Theophilus Parsons, Sunday Lessons for the Instruction of Children of the New Church in Schools or at Home, pages 103–4:

In the light of these disclosures we see that all the splendid habitations and magnificent palaces of heaven are but pictorial representations, under the law of correspondence, of the ruling loves of the angels.

1885, Benjamin Fiske Barrett, Heaven Revealed: Being a Popular Representation of Swedenborg’s Disclosures About Heaven […], 4th edition, page 243:

Corroborating the theosophic law of correspondence, Duby declares that the first aspect of the “system,” was a “coherence between heaven and earth, two parts of one homogeneous world, built to a single plan and hence reciprocally related.”

1997, William W. Quinn, Jr., The Only Tradition, →ISBN, page 215:

At almost every turn the heavenly world informed, illuminated, and affected the earthly world and vice versa, what some term the metaphysical law of correspondence.

[2012, Samuel Morris Brown, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death, →ISBN, page 11:

(theology, hermeticism) The principle that any material thing or circumstance is the effect or reflection of a spiritual or celestial counterpart, and vice versa.

Not to be confused with correspondence principle


maximism

As to minimism and maximism — microscopic and telescopic tendencies — the cosmical laws are themselves of such vast range that we should naturally expect the greatest embodiments to have occurred first, as in the case of a thousand Suns and Jupiters they manifestly did.

1872, Henry Thomas Braithwaite, Esse and posse, page 56:

[…] theologians were puzzled by Newman's apparent combination of liberalism and ultramontanism, of maximism and minimism.

1912, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 72, page 70:

[…] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.

1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:

The monks' practice of "eschatological maximism” did not make them a group apart from the rest of the Church.

1966, Cistercian Studies - Volume 24, page 179:

(theology) A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible.


combinationalism

(chiefly theology) The belief that a combination of different viewpoints or approaches should be applied.


charagma

Then I beheld thrones and those who sat upon them, and judgment was granted to them. And I beheld the souls of all those whose heads had been hacked off with axes because of their witness to Jesus and the word of God. These souls are the ones who never worshipped the Beast or his idol, nor did they accept the puncture mark—the charagma—on their foreheads or on their hands. These souls lived and reigned with Christ for the millennium.

2003 [around 100 CE], “Chapter Twenty”, in Mark B. Arey, Philemon D. Sevastiades, transl., edited by Patra McSharry Sevastiades, Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation (The Millennium Translation Project), Oradell, NJ: Dayspring Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 62-63:


Areopagitics

Latin Areopagiticus, from Ancient Greek.

1998, Elena Surkova, The Theological, Philosophical and Linguistic Background of Constantine the Philosopher's Concept of Translation Jože Krašovec (editor), The Interpretation of the Bible: The International Symposium in Slovenia, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Sheffield Academic Press, page 978,
The reference-points for Constantine the Philosopher in creating his philosophy of language were: 1. the corpus of texts known under the name of the Epistles of Paul the Apostle and 2. Areopagitics—the writings which appeared in Byzantium in the second half of the 5th century, written by Dionysius the Areopagite (or more exactly, Pseudo-Dionysius), whose programme, in Sergey Averintzev's words, represents a "synthesis of the attic tradition of speculation with the Christian mysticism of Paul the Apostle's Epistles […] ."

2019, Georges Florovsky, Byzantine Fathers: V – VIII centuries, Vladimir Djambov, page 194,
Peter Lombard looked at the Areopagitics as an indisputable authority. John Saracin in the 12th century, Thomas Verchelsky and Robert Grosseteste in the 13th century translate and comment on the Areopagitics.

(plural only, theology, early Christianity, historical) Collectively, the mystical theological works attributed to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.


redeem the time

en-verb

redeem the time (third-person singular simple present redeems the time, present participle redeeming the time, simple past and past participle redeemed the time)

redeems the time (present singular third-person)
redeeming the time (participle present)
redeemed the time (participle past)
redeemed the time (past)

(Christianity, theology) To spend one's time in wisdom and in submission to God.


Revived Roman Empire

An extraordinary character at the head of a leading power in Europe will be the immediate instrumentality in organizing the coming Roman Empire; but extraordinary occasions always bring out such.
The great Napoleon, and the Imperial Confederation which he organized, afford an illustration. But the head of the Revived Roman Empire will be, in many respects, a more extraordinary character than the great Napoleon. The coming character will be an unscrupulous, impious, daring person, endowed with satanic intelligence and skill, and wielding a species of superhuman power over the minds of men. He is styled by the inspired Apostle, "that man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped."

1879, J. Berry, “IMPENDING CRISIS.”, in The Roman Empire Revived. An Outline of Coming Events, and an Harmonious Elucidation of the Prophecies Having Reference Thereto: Also the Rapture of the True Church, with a New and Satisfactory Explanation of the Symbolic Number 666. (Religion), Cincinnati, Ohio: Wrightson & Co., →OCLC, page 50:

Here is a distinction between the “FORMER” and “LATTER” time of the “Four Kingdoms” into which Alexander’s Empire was divided, which prophetically declares that those “Four Kingdoms” are to be resuscitated and become “Four” of the “Ten Kingdoms” into which the Revived Roman Empire shall be divided, for God is able to revive dead nations as well as dead men. As proof of this Greece is a sovereign State today, and Egypt is again coming into power, and in the upheaval of nations no one can foretell how soon Thrace and Syria shall again appear as independent Kingdoms.

1929, Clarence Larkin, “The Ram and the He-Goat”, in The Book of Daniel (Religion), Philadelphia, PA: Erwin W. Moyer Co., →OCLC, page 164:

The following will be among the questions the pastor will answer at the evening service: "Will Mussolini Revive Ancient Babylon?" "What will be the Relationship Between Rome and Bablon^([sic – meaning Babylon]) in the Revived Roman Empire?" "What Is the Prophetic Siginficance^([sic – meaning Significance]) of the Pope’s Latest Disagreement with Mussolini?"

1929 June 8, “Warning Seen When Il Duce Disputes Pope”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 74, number 135, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 5:

The other nations which were a part of the Old Roman Empire, but are not as yet in the W.E.U., as of this writing, are Spain, Portugal and Austria. Austria has already applied for membership in the Common Market. Portugal is a member of NATO and thus in full cooperation with the W.E.U.; and Spain has just renewed its military agreement with the U.S.A. and thus with the Atlantic Alliance and NATO. The end result, therefore, is that, even though the actual Ten Nation Empire of the Revived Roman Empire area is not yet in full political oneness, it is already in full cooperation by coalition and it is supported militarily by full commitment of the United States of America and the thermonuclear super-power thereof.

1972, Charles R. Taylor, “BIBLE RECORDED PROPHECIES ABOUT WORLD WAR III”, in The Destiny of America (Religion), Van Nuys, Calif.: Time-Light Publishers Division of Bible Voice, →OCLC, page 24:

One of the reasons I’m convinced we’re living in the closing days of the world’s history is because of the emergence of the European Common Market, also known as the European Economic Community. There is no doubt in my mind that it’s the forerunner of the Revived Roman Empire which the prophet Daniel spoke about with such certainty. He predicted that the number of nations in it would be limited to ten. This is the very number which the Common Market has set as its goal for inner membership!

1973, Hal Lindsey, “The Two Antichrists”, in There's a New World Coming: 'A Prophetic Odyssey' (Religion), Santa Ana, California: Vision House Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 186:

Though scarcely noticed at publication by even the evangelical press, The Late Great Planet Earth became the best-selling book of the decade, with scores of printings ultimately churning out close to 16 million copies. IT was a tale of biblical prophecy told in countercultural vernacular, and it went like this. Soon the Israelis will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and conclude a treaty with the dictator of the Revived Roman Empire, also known as the Antichrist.

1986 March 30, Mark Silk, “RELIGIOUS BOOKS: SEVEN THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, Books:

At the exact time of the Rapture or Catching-Away of the Church (1 COR 15:51-54), (1 THESS 4:13-18), and the great, great turmoil that results from War World III; a great leader like the world has never seen (Anti-Christ), will come forth out of the European Union thus the revived Roman Empire will come into its full being or existence as the final Kingdom on earth ruled by mortal man; in which he (Anti-Christ) will rule the earth for a seven year period; (DAN 9:27) at which at the end of that time the LORD of LORDS, and KING of KINGS will set up the Kingdom of GOD which shall never end (DAN 2:44, 7:13-14, 27) which we will study more in-depth in a later chapter.

2004, Richard Goode, “"ISRAEL'S FUTURE"”, in ~Prophecy~ Destiny of America!: Destiny of the World! (Religion), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 166–167:

The Eighth form of this political Beast is described in the Book of Revelation 17, c11. It is an extension of the Revived Roman Empire at the end of the Church Age; which will rise to its climax and be terminated by an act (see Rev.17:16) of the Antichrist; who has not yet been revealed; and who God says will remain for a short while to accomplish God's Will, in Rev.17:17).

2015, Larry Zarysky, Tarnopol: An Anatomy of a Life: A Book of Many Colors (Religion), Xulon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 255–256:

(theology, eschatology) A multinational superpower entity during the Tribulation connected with the Antichrist, in modern religious speculation often identified with the European Union.


nepsis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νῆψις (nêpsis)

lbor

(Christianity, theology) Wakefulness and watchfulness; a state of sobriety following a period of catharsis.


Old Adam

(theology, Christianity) A human nature of a sinful, unregenerate or unredeemed state.


archdivinity

One myth asserts that it was first used in designating the archdivinity of Yorubaland.

2004, Philip M. Peek, Kwesi Yankah, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia, page 833:

(theology, rare, religion, fantasy, science fiction) A chief or reigning divinity, particularly in a polytheistic system.


Triadology

en-noun

Triadology (countable and uncountable, plural Triadologies)

From Greek Τριάδα (Triáda, “Trinity”) + -logy.

(Christianity, theology, triunitarianism) the discipline concerned with the Holy Trinity.


aseitous

(metaphysics, theology) Possessing the divine attribute of aseity.


substitutionary atonement

substitutionary atonement (usually uncountable, plural substitutionary atonements)

(Christianity, theology) A central concept which asserts that Jesus died for humanity, and which regards Jesus as dying as a substitute for others.


Five Points

(theology) A summary of soteriology in Reformed Christianity


antilegalism

In this coinage of the great apostle extremes meet; legalism and antilegalism; legalism in so far as it implies that God, as the Judaists contended demanded righteousness from all, antilegalism in so fare as it implies that the righteousness which God demands he at the same time bestows.

1896, William Rainey Harper, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shailer Mathews, The Biblical World - Volume 7, page 10:

(religion, theology) A belief that salvation is attained or maintained not just by adherence to the requirements of moral law, but also by worship, faith, or grace.


nonlegalism

In contrast, Bawer continues that progressive or liberal theology or nonlegalism puts love at its center, with spiritual experience, priesthood of all believers, and the Great Commandment.

2019, Patricia Ambrose Welker, Seeking to Become Whole:

(religion, theology) An approach to religion that stresses faith and love over specific religious strictures.


pyrotheology

(theology) An interpretation that views faith as a particular way of engaging with the world rather than a set of beliefs about the world.


Harrowing of Hell

The source of the Harrowing of Hell tradition is, of course, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, the oldest manuscripts of which date back to the fifth century, and that work was tremendously popular in England from the earliest days of Christianity there.

1991, M. B. McNamee, “Beowulf-An Allegory of Salvation?”, in Robert D. Fulk, editor, Interpretations of Beowulf, Indiana University Press, page 94:

(Christianity, theology, chiefly dated or historical) Christ's freeing from the underworld of those souls of the dead who merited entry to Heaven.

descente aux Enfers

Christ's freeing of souls from the underworld


triunitarian

(theology) Of or pertaining to a triunity.

(theology) Of or pertaining to triunitarianism.


unitrinity

unitrinity (countable and uncountable, plural unitrinities)

unitrinities (plural)
Unitrinity (alternative)

(theology) A unity in a trinity; the quality of being one, equal, or united.


super-supernatural

en-adj

super-supernatural (comparative more super-supernatural, superlative most super-supernatural)

more super-supernatural (comparative)
most super-supernatural (superlative)
super-supernatural (alternative)

Burton’s voice going over all he’d told to me. As he spoke, de Granjerque didn’t interrupt, merely nodding impatiently to himself. Finally, my supersupernatural sleuth spoke.

1943, D. W. O'Brien, Fantastic Adventures, page 132:

Second, concerning Packer’s neologism, “supersupernatural-ism” and the dangers of its obtrusiveness, I agree that one must remember that God is indeed the God of the mundane as well as the supramundane.

1987, ICBI Summit, Applying the Scriptures, Academie Books, page 79:

As they watched this supersupernatural event, they all heard and ignored a sound from behind them which might or might not have been a groan.

2007, Toby Litt, Hospital: A Dream Vision, Academie Books, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 265:

But it's the simplest explaination. If you want to add a supernatural layer then that supernatural layer just exists because it is. Whatever necessary precursor to all of causality exists, it logically has to exist for no reason. But it is simpler to assume that the quantum precursors to our universe exist for no reason, because if you assume that some other supernatural thing exists, then why does that exist? If you could then find the mechanics of the supernatural to answer that, they would themselves be able to be explained as their own quanta, which either exist for no reason, or for a supersupernatural reason, and you can go on and one down that road forever. But each new step is inherently more improbability being heaped onto your base assumptions about the nature of reality. But just believing that everything exists for no reason makes you the least likely to be wrong. You might be wrong, but whatever would be the answer almost certainly does not look like any sort of supernatural explanation yet proposed, but, if it can be thought of as a sort of supernature, I will wait for a scientist to observe it and explain why he thinks that that is the best way to describe it.

2020 May 15, Nya_doesnt_die, Speed_of_Night, “Do you believe in aliens, Why or why not?”, in reddit.com:

(very rare, theology, fantasy, science fiction, religion) Being above and beyond simply supernatural; being unbound by the supernatural limits, such as the individual soul.


homoousion

In concepts of earlier systematic theology, it is possible to talk of a homoousion with respect to God, and thus of the community of will of the Father and the Son on the cross. However, the unity contains not only identity of substance but also the wholly and utterly different character and inequality of the event on the cross.

2012, Rafael Luévano, Woman-killing in Juárez: Theodicy at the Border, page 162:


codivine

Is the Father codivine with the Son?


codivinity

(theology) Joint divinity; the quality of being codivine.


Aphthartodocetist

/ˌæfθɑːrtəˈdɒsɪtɪst/

From Ancient Greek ἀφθαρτοδοκήτης (aphthartodokḗtēs), derived from Ancient Greek ἀφθαρτος (aphthartos, “incorruptible”) + Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem, I appear”).

der

ἀφθαρτοδοκήτης

The question of the Aphthartodocetists or Phantasiastae and their central tenet of the incorruptibility of Christ's flesh would be broached in 726 at the Synod of Manazkert, which was also of importance for renewing relations with the West Syrian Church under Patriarch Athanasius III.

2004 APRIL, Cowe, S. Peter, “ARMENIAN CHRISTOLOGY IN THE SEVENTH AND EIGHT CENTURIES WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CATHOLICOS YOVHAN ŌJNEC'I AND XOSROVIK T'ARGMANIČ'.”, in The Journal of Theological Studies (NEW SERIES), volume 55, number 1, page 31:

The Aphthartodocetists of the sixth century constitute the standard exception here, though even they did not deny the reality of Christ’s sufferings; for while they denied that Christ’s human nature had any natural susceptibility to suffering, they also maintained that he willingly subjected himself to it.

2008 Oct, McFARLAND, IAN A., “Fallen or Unfallen? Christ's Human Nature and the Ontology of Human Sinfulness.”, in International Journal of Systematic Theology., volume 10, number 4, page 407:

(Christianity, theology, historical, philosophy) A follower or proponent of Aphthartodocetism, the Christological doctrine that taught Christ's body was naturally incorruptible and not subject to physical suffering, associated with Julian of Halicarnassus


hermeneuticize

en-verb

hermeneuticize (third-person singular simple present hermeneuticizes, present participle hermeneuticizing, simple past and past participle hermeneuticized)

hermeneuticizes (present singular third-person)
hermeneuticizing (participle present)
hermeneuticized (participle past)
hermeneuticized (past)
hermeneuticise (alternative Commonwealth)

That, by the way, is all I want to exegesize and defend in Tom Nagel's viewpoint. The rest of the hermeneutics of 'viewpoints' is not (in my view) all that relevant, insofar as the explanatory gap (on which Nagel is unaccountably an optimist!) is concerned. Viewpoint is just one of the many manifestations of consciousness and its countless synonyms and paranyms that one can single out and hermeneuticize without making any real inroads on the explanatory gap itself.

2009 May 15, Stevan Harnad, “Knowing Something When You Feel It”, in PhilPapers, Western University (Canada) Department of Philosophy:

(transitive, philosophy, theology) To analyze, consider, or regard hermeneutically; to apply hermeneutics to.


hermeneuticized

en-adj

hermeneuticized (comparative more hermeneuticized, superlative most hermeneuticized)

more hermeneuticized (comparative)
most hermeneuticized (superlative)

(philosophy, theology) Having been subject to hermeneutics, hermeneuticizing, or hermeneuticization.


special revelation

(Christianity, theology) God's revelation made exclusively to His Chosen People in His divine Word, as opposed to knowledge of God attained through any other means such as philosophy.


postliberalism

en-noun

postliberalism (countable and uncountable, plural postliberalisms)

postliberalisms (plural)
post-liberalism (alternative)

[…] I will argue that the centrality of this conception of truth in postliberalism should lead the theologian to question the validity and usefulness of Lindbeck’s broader research program.

1997 February, F. Leron Shults, “Truth Happens? The Pragmatic Conception of Truth and the Postliberal Research Program”, in The Princeton Theological Review, volume 4, number 1, →ISSN, page 26:

(theology) A theology that emphasizes a narrative presentation of the Christian faith; postliberal theology.


Virgin Birth

(Christianity, theology) Alternative letter-case form of virgin birth.


traductionism

(theology) The belief that the soul of a child is propagated by traduction from the soul of the parent.