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• TheologyDoctrine & Theology

  Theology is the discipline that systematically studies God and his works in light of Scripture and the tradition of the church. It is commonly divided into biblical theology, systematic theology, historical theology, and practical theology.

• PatristicsDoctrine & Theology

  Patristics is the theological discipline that studies the lives, writings, and thought of the Church Fathers, the theologians and leaders of the early church. It is usually treated as a branch of church history (historical theology).

• Church HistoryHistory

  Church history is the history of the church, or the academic discipline that studies that history. Eusebius's fourth-century Ecclesiastical History is regarded as the beginning of systematic writing in the field. Today church history is taught in seminaries as a branch of historical theology.

• History of WorshipDoctrine & Theology

  The history of worship traces how the forms and content of Christian worship have changed over time, from the sacrifices and synagogue of the Old Testament and the gatherings of the early church, through the medieval Mass, the Reformation, and modern revival movements, to the present day.

• Biblical TheologyDoctrine & Theology

  Biblical theology is the theological discipline that sets out the theological content of Scripture by following the historical course in which the Bible was written and the context of each of its books. It is the counterpart of systematic theology, which organizes the teaching of Scripture by topic.

• Liberal TheologyDoctrine & Theology

  Liberal theology is a movement in Protestant theology, emerging in the nineteenth century, that treats modern reason, scholarship, and individual religious experience as important criteria for understanding the faith. Among Korean Protestant churches, the term is used chiefly as a critical label by conservatives.

• EcotheologyDoctrine & Theology

  Ecotheology is a field of theology that reflects on the relationship among God, humanity, and nature and addresses the church's responsibility in the face of the environmental crisis. It is also called environmental 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.

• Deuteronomistic HistoryDoctrine & Theology

  The Deuteronomistic History is a theory in Old Testament scholarship that regards Joshua through 2 Kings as a single historical work shaped by the theology of Deuteronomy. It was first systematically formulated in 1943 by the German scholar Martin Noth.

• Prevenient GraceDoctrine & Theology

  Prevenient grace is a theological term for the grace that God extends first, before a person seeks Him or believes in Him. It is especially emphasized in Wesleyan theology.

• Albert SchweitzerPeople

  Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was an Alsatian theologian, philosopher, organist, and physician. His The Quest of the Historical Jesus left a major mark on historical Jesus research, and his medical work at Lambaréné in Gabon, Africa, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

• Special RevelationDoctrine & Theology

  Special revelation is a theological term for God's disclosure of Himself and His saving will through particular means such as prophecy, historical events, Jesus Christ, and Scripture, as distinguished from general revelation through nature and conscience.

• ErosDoctrine & Theology

  Eros (ἔρως) is an ancient Greek word for "love," particularly a love that is drawn to its object and longs to possess it. In Christian theology it is discussed chiefly as a concept contrasted with agape.

• Fundamentalist–Modernist ControversyHistory

  A theological controversy of the 1920s and 1930s within mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, such as the Northern Presbyterian and Northern Baptist churches. It pitted fundamentalists, who sought to defend the authority of Scripture and the core doctrines of the faith, against modernists, who sought to reinterpret the faith in light of modern scholarship.

• British IsraelismDoctrine & Theology

  British Israelism is the claim that the British and other Anglo-Saxon peoples are descendants of the "lost ten tribes" of the biblical northern kingdom of Israel. Mainstream theological and historical scholarship regards the claim as unfounded.

• Redemptive HistoryDoctrine & Theology

  Redemptive history refers both to the theological perspective that reads the whole of Scripture as a single history in which God saves humanity and the world fallen into sin, and to the history that this perspective describes.

• Antiochene SchoolDoctrine & Theology

  The Antiochene School was an early church theological tradition centered in Antioch in Syria during the fourth and fifth centuries that emphasized the literal and historical meaning of Scripture and the true humanity of Christ.

• Wolfhart PannenbergPeople

  Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928–2014) was a German Lutheran systematic theologian. He advanced the concept of "revelation as history," holding that God's revelation is disclosed through history as a whole, and he argued that the resurrection of Jesus was a historical event.

• RaptureDoctrine & Theology

  The rapture is the belief that, when Jesus Christ returns, living believers will be caught up into the air to meet the Lord. Denominations and theological traditions differ on when it will occur.