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• Heavenly RewardsDoctrine & Theology

  Heavenly rewards are the rewards that God is understood to give believers for their faithful lives and service. The term refers chiefly to the recompense received at the Last Judgment or in heaven.

• Alexandrian SchoolHistory

  The Alexandrian School was a theological tradition of the early church centered in Alexandria, Egypt, from the second to the fifth century. It is known for allegorical interpretation, which reads Scripture spiritually and symbolically, and for a Christology that emphasized the divinity of Christ.

• New CreationDoctrine & Theology

  New creation is the biblical teaching that God, through Christ, makes people new and will renew the whole of heaven and earth at the last day.

• TertullianPeople

  Tertullian was a Christian writer and apologist active in Carthage, North Africa, in the second and third centuries. He refined theological terminology in Latin and is called the "Father of Latin Theology."

• Doctrine of CreationDoctrine & Theology

  The doctrine of creation is the Christian teaching that God made the world and everything in it out of nothing, and also the theological field that studies this teaching.

• Evangelical CounselsDoctrine & Theology

  In Catholic theology, the evangelical counsels are three ways of life: poverty, chastity, and obedience. Unlike the commandments, which bind all believers, they are regarded as recommended for voluntary adoption by those seeking a more perfect life.

• ChristologyDoctrine & Theology

  Christology is the field of Christian theology that deals with who Jesus Christ is and what he has done. It explains the person of Christ (his divinity and humanity) and his work (atonement, resurrection, and related themes).

• Biblical HermeneuticsDoctrine & Theology

  Biblical hermeneutics is the field of theology concerned with the principles and methods by which the meaning of the biblical text is determined and applied to faith and life today.

• RevelationDoctrine & Theology

  Revelation is a term in Christian theology for God's act of disclosing and making known his own being and will, which human beings cannot know by their own efforts.

• MissiologyDoctrine & Theology

  Missiology is a branch of theology that studies the biblical foundations, history, and methods of mission, that is, the church's work of carrying the gospel to other regions and cultures.

• Christian EthicsDoctrine & Theology

  Christian ethics is the field of theology that examines, in light of the Christian faith, what is right and how Christians ought to live as individuals and in society. It is also called the study of Christian ethics.

• Christianity and EconomicsDoctrine & Theology

  Christianity and economics is a field of theology and Christian ethics that seeks to understand economic life, including wealth, labor, property, and distribution, in the light of the Christian faith.

• Law and GospelDoctrine & Theology

  Law and Gospel is a topic in Protestant theology concerning how God's commandments, which require obedience from human beings (the Law), are to be distinguished from and related to the message of salvation freely given through Jesus Christ (the Gospel).

• Three Uses of the LawDoctrine & Theology

  The three uses of the law is a teaching of Reformation theology that organizes the work of God's law into three functions: restraining evil in society, bringing people to recognize their sin, and guiding the life of the believer.

• Theological EducationChristian Life

  Theological education is the systematic teaching of the Bible and theology for the purpose of training pastors and church leaders. Schools devoted to this work are commonly called seminaries.

• Covenant of WorksDoctrine & Theology

  The covenant of works is the covenant that God is held to have made with Adam before the Fall, promising life on the condition of perfect obedience and threatening death for disobedience. It is a central concept in Reformed covenant theology.

• Institutes of the Christian ReligionDoctrine & Theology

  The Institutes of the Christian Religion is a systematic work of Protestant theology by the Reformer John Calvin. First published in 1536, it was revised several times before the final edition was completed in 1559. It is regarded as a foundational text of Reformed and Presbyterian theology.

• Geerhardus VosPeople

  Geerhardus Vos (1862–1949) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian who taught biblical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is regarded as having laid the foundation for a "redemptive-historical" reading of Scripture, which views revelation as unfolding progressively in history.

• FundamentalismDoctrine & Theology

  Fundamentalism is a conservative theological movement that arose in early twentieth-century American Protestantism to defend biblical inerrancy and core doctrines against liberal theology; the term also denotes the theological position the movement represents.

• Ahn Byung-muPeople

  Ahn Byung-mu (1922–1996) was a Korean New Testament scholar and a leading founder of Minjung theology. He is known for interpreting the "crowd" (ochlos) in the Gospel of Mark as the minjung.