front 1 Monotheistic | back 1 Belief in one God |
front 2 Polytheistic | back 2 Belief in many gods |
front 3 Agnostic | back 3 Unsure about the existence of God or gods |
front 4 Atheistic | back 4 Denying that God or gods exist |
front 5 Religion | back 5 A worldview that involves belief in God or gods, or some unseen power or powers, something beyond the human existence |
front 6 Revelation | back 6 Deliberate self-disclosure of God (or the gods) to humanity |
front 7 Theology | back 7 the study of God; discourse concerning the divine; God talk. For Anselm “faith seeking understanding” |
front 8 Doctrines | back 8 Official religious teachings |
front 9 Christian faith | back 9 A response to revelation, begins with belief in God and in God’s son, Jesus Christ. It also involves trust in God and Jesus |
front 10 Moral theology | back 10 focuses on the values arising from the Bible and Christian beliefs
and practices and attempts to identify the behaviors that are
congruent and incongruent with these |
front 11 Sacramental theology | back 11 Also known as liturgical theology, focuses on the study of Christian worship |
front 12 Spirituality | back 12 investigates various forms of prayer and religious practice that orient persons toward God (or the divine) and that direct the way they live in the world |
front 13 Theological anthropology | back 13 pertains to the study of human beings in relation to God and God’s creation. |
front 14 Soteriology | back 14 pertains to the study of salvation |
front 15 Pluralism | back 15 the presence of different religious or cultural groups within a single society |
front 16 Secularism | back 16 the belief that religion has no place in the civic or political realm |
front 17 Summa Theologica | back 17 Thomas Aquinas’s comprehensive systematic examination of Christian theology |