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The term is applied to the form that the Reformation took in England. There, the Reformation eventually resulted in the Anglican Church or the Church of England.
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ANGLICAN(ISM)
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Hatred of Jews.
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ANTI-SEMITISM
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The non-governmental and non-economic activities needed for a society to sustain life.
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CIVIL SECTOR
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The name the Puritan church took in America
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CONGREGATIONALISTS
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20th Century effort by fundamentalists to attach evolutionary theory. It teaches that evolution is an inadequate theory for explaining the origins of life and that scientific evidence supports the biblical account of creation
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CREATIONISM
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Doctrine that God chose some for salvation and some for damnation before the universe was created
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DOUBLE PREDESTINATION
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New branch where Christians have responsibility not only for personal salvation and social issues, but also for acting ethically in relation to the natural environment itself.
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ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY
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20th Century Protestant movement in which various denominations are reuniting or at least engaging in cooperative efforts
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ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
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20th Century radio and television ministries w/large followings that have become substitutes for traditional congregations
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ELECTRONIC CHURCHES
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Making Christianity (or any other religion) the official religion of a country
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ESTABLISHMENT
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Term applied to Protestant Christians. In Europe the term is used for any Christian in the reformed tradition. The term has been used in the 20th Century for conservative Christians who stress the need to convert nonbelievers
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EVANGELICALS
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The pope is infallible when he is speaking in his official capacity as the pastor and teacher of Christians in defining matters of faith and morals
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EX CATHEDRA
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Characteristic of global society where information lines, alliances b/t people, jobs, and the like shift readily. Few remain rigid and unchanging
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FLUIDITY
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20th Century American religious movement that calls upon Christians to return to the fundamentals of the faith. it’s largely a reaction against modern culture and Christian attempts to adjust to that culture
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FUNDAMENTALISM
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Doctrine that teaches Christ died for everyone, but some will not accept the salvation he offers.
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GENERAL ELECTION
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The international or global non-governmental organizations that attempt to influence different aspects of the world’s political, economic, or environmental scenes.
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GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY
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God’s unearned and undeserved love toward humans
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GRACE
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Term for the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews and other “inferior” persons by the Nazis during WWII
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HOLOCAUST
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Movement originating during the Renaissance that held the study of the humanities could improve religion and society
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HUMANISM
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The trouble people have maintaining a clear image of who they are and how they relate to others whether these are neighbors or persons and groups on the other side of the earth.
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IDENTITY CRISIS
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Waivers from temporal punishments for sin made possible through the church drawing upon its storehouse of merit.
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INDULGENCES
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The popular name for the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola in the 16th Century
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JESUITS
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How sinners “get right” w/God
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JUSTIFICATION
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An approach to understanding Scripture that insists that biblical passages must be taken as literally true. God speaks directly in the Scriptures. There is no need for interpretation
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LITERALISM
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The Roman Catholic worship service in which the Eucharist is celebrated
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MASS
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Orders of friars who lived by begging
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MENDICANT ORDERS
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Catholic theologians who attempted to accommodate the modern mindset of the 19th century
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MODERNIST
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“The new orthodoxy.” The term is applied to a 20th Century theological movement that asserts a Bible-centered faith, human sinfulness, and the necessity of God’s saving intervention in history
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NEO-ORTHODOXY
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In the 19th Century, Roman Catholic church accepted the doctrine that the pope is infallible when acting in his official capacity as the church’s teacher of faith and morals
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PAPAL INFALLIBILITY
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Sincere devotion accompanied by acts of love
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PIETY
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One person might be pastor or bishop of several places at one time, leading to absenteeism
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PLURALISM
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Situation in which there are many different people w/many competing faiths and ideas
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PLURALISTIC ENVIRONMENT
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Doctrine that God chose some people to be saved before the universe was created
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PREDESTINATION
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Originally Reformers who protested at the Diet of Speier in 1529 revoking privileges granted to them by Charles V. The term came to apply to all Christians who denominations grew out of the 16th Century break w/Roman Catholicism
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PROTESTANTS
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Group in 16th and 17th century England who felt the Anglican church needed to be purified of Catholic influences. They advocated making the church conform to Calvinistic doctrines and practices
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PURITANS
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The belief that reason alone can comprehend all truth and is sufficient to guide morals.
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RATIONALISM
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Coming together or bringing together 2 beings who were estranged.
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RECONCILIATION
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The teaching that truth is related to the time, place, and culture in which it is taught. There are no absolute truths.
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RELATIVISM
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“rebirth.” The term may refer to any of several rebirths of culture and learning occurring at various times in Western Europe. At its height in 15th Century, refers to large-scale rebirth of interest in classical culture
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RENAISSANCE
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Turning away from sin
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REPENTANCE
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A physical act that leads to participation in the divine. In Christian theology, sacraments bring the grace of God to humans.
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SACRAMENT
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A group that breaks away from an accepted religion
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SECT
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Nonreligious
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SECULAR
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The removal of human institutions from religions domination
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SECULARIZATION
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20th Century movement that insists the Gospel must be expressed in social ethics
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SOCIAL GOSPEL
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The teaching that each person has his/her own definition of truth
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SUBJECTIVISM
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Meeting
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SYNOD
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Theory that God verbally told the original writers of the Scriptures exactly what to write
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VERBAL INSPIRATION
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Concepts shared by many 19th Century Westerners that light-skinned people of European origins had a special obligation to share the benefits of their advanced civilization w/their primitive “brown bothers” around the world.
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WHITE MAN’S BURDEN
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Those who baptize again. 16th century reformers who rejected infant baptism insisting on baptizing only believers who made a profession of faith.
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ANABAPTISTS
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