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Bible
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| knowledge | Epistemology |
| worldview | A set of assumptions about reality that affect how we think and how we live |
| hermeneutics | Interpretation; the rules used for searching out the meaning of texts |
| exegesis | Interpretation |
| meta-narrative | The overarching theme of the Bible |
| theology | The study of God |
| apologetics | In defense of a particular belief |
| apologist | A person who gives a defense for a particular belief |
| dogma | A teaching that has received official Church status as truth |
| doctrine | That which is taught and believed to be true by a church |
| philosophy | Love of wisdom; the study of ultimate reality by use of human reason and logic |
| offering | The presentation of gifts |
| sin | The human condition of separation from God |
| righteous | a religious state of moral purity |
| covenant | a binding relationship; can be only a promise or include an obligation |
| omniscience | all knowing |
| omnipotence | all powerful |
| omniprescence | everywhere at all times |
| eternal | everlasting; enduring forever |
| church | the body of Christ of a whole |
| Theophany | a visible manifestation of God |