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| Question | Answer |
| orthodox | "sound doctrine; right opinion" |
| kataphatic | the use of concrete images to describe God (ex., God is like a rock) |
| apophatic | clearing your mind of images and negating our frail human concepts (ex., god is not like a rock) |
| paradox | composed of two seemingly irreconcilable points of view which are inexplicably interwoven to form a truth; a both/and statement |
| heresy | an opinion that is not orthodox; "veer off course" |
| creed | Latin for "I believe"; originally, public professions of faith made before baptism |
| Docetists | Jesus was not really human, only appeared to have a body |
| Arianism | Jesus was not truly divine because he was a created being |
| Elohim | Hebrew term for God; masculine plural word |
| Eloah | Hebrew term for God; feminine singular word |
| monotheism | belief in one supreme God |
| essence (Greek) | being (is-ness) |
| energies (Greek) | doing (activeness ) |
| aura | energy field of a living being |
| essence (Latin) | being |
| attributes (Latin) | characteristics |
| omniscient | "all-knowing" |
| omnipotent | "all-powerful" |
| omnipresent | "all-places" |
| Believers | religious; believe there is a God |
| agnostics | don't know if there is a God |
| atheists | know there is not a God |
| YHWH | Jewish name for God; "I am who I am"; a tetragrammaton |
| Adonai | Jewish name for "Lord" |
| Origen and communications | God employs languages (metaphors, analogies, etc.) that we can understand |
| ex nihilo | "out of nothing"; refers to creation |
| pantheism | "all is God"; everything is God |
| panentheism | "all is in God" |
| Gregory of Nyssa | had the idea of theistic evolution |
| theistic evolution | God's creation changes; at one point, there was an explosion of light |
| triadic | three |
| I am who am | shows God as the subject, object, and reflexive consciousness |
| yod | hand = power |
| Ruach | spirit or breath |
| Ireaneus | taught God as Word and Spirit |
| Evagrius and Augustine | said "the God whom you know cannot be God" |
| ad intra | in and of God's self; internal God |
| ad extra | external God |
| monarchianism (adoptionism) | God "adopted" Jesus as a special son; the spirit is the memory of Jesus |
| monarchianism (dynamic) | God gave Jesus powers; Spirit is the dead Jesus |
| guntherism | God evolves; God is not infinite, absolute, etc. |
| modalism | only one God who can only be one person (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) at a time |
| tritheism | three separate Gods co-operate in doing, each being equal in power; lacks a relationship between the three persons |
| begotten | to Greeks, meant to bring forth; to Christians, meant the Son was always in the Father |
| ousia | Greek for essence |
| heteroousian | different essences |
| homoosian | same essences |
| semi-Arians | since there is a God Almighty, there may be demigods who are above time |
| subordinationism | God is a chain of command; God Almighty at the top, Son in the middle, and Spirit at the bottom |
| triumvirate | a government with three executives with one above the other two |
| distinct | main emphasis on commonality, yet distinguishing characteristics |
| different | emphasis on what is not the same |
| Cyril of Alexandria | "God is a reciprocal irruption of love" |
| kolpos | Greek for "womb" |
| circumincession (Latin approach) | "circle without ceasing"; like modalism |
| circuminsession (Latin approach) | "circle in session" (court); God is three judges around a circle table |
| perichoresis (Greek approach) | "circle - choral dance"; three persons dancing and singing in harmony in a circle |
| trinity | "three unity" |
| prosopon | Greek for "person"; pros = toward sopon = eyes/face |
| hypostasis | subsistence; manner of existence |
| filioque | Greek for "and the Son" |
| ecclesiology | study of the Church |
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