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Parable of the Great Banquet
[Bible]The Parable of the Great Banquet is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 14:15–24. When the invited guests make excuses and fail to come, the host calls in the poor and people from the roadsides to fill his banquet.
Plural of Majesty
[Doctrine & Theology]The plural of majesty is a usage in which a plural form refers to a single person while conveying dignity and honor. It is often used to explain the plural form of the Hebrew word Elohim, which refers to God.
Demythologization
[Doctrine & Theology]Demythologization is a theological method that seeks to separate the message of the New Testament from the mythological worldview of antiquity and to reinterpret it in terms of the existential questions facing modern people. It was proposed by the German theologian Rudolf Bultmann.
Leitourgia
[Doctrine & Theology]Leitourgia (λειτουργία) is a Greek word meaning "public service." In the church it refers to worship and liturgy, and it is the origin of the English word "liturgy."
Missio Dei
[Doctrine & Theology]Missio Dei (Latin for "the mission of God") is a concept in the theology of mission holding that the agent of mission is not the church but the triune God, and that the church is a community sent to participate in that mission.
Love
[Doctrine & Theology]In Christianity, love is understood as the nature of God and is regarded as the virtue at the heart of the greatest commandment Christians are called to keep. It encompasses both love for God and love for one's neighbor.
Spiritual Body
[Bible]The spiritual body is Paul's term in 1 Corinthians 15:44 for the body the dead will put on at the resurrection, in contrast to the "natural body." It refers to a body that is incorruptible, glorious, and governed by the Holy Spirit.
Textual Criticism
[Doctrine & Theology]Textual criticism is the discipline of comparing and examining biblical manuscripts, which differ slightly from one another, in order to recover the form closest to the text as originally written. It is foundational to Bible translation and exegesis.
Latter Prophets
[Bible]The Latter Prophets (Hebrew *Nevi'im Aharonim*) are the second half of the Prophets (Nevi'im), the second division of the Hebrew Bible. The term refers to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, books compiled chiefly from the messages delivered by the prophets.
Biblical Inspiration
[Doctrine & Theology]Biblical inspiration is the Christian doctrine that the Bible was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. Denominations and scholars differ in their understanding of the extent and mode of inspiration.
Angelology
[Doctrine & Theology]Angelology is the branch of systematic theology that deals with the existence, nature, and work of angels, as well as with fallen angels (Satan and demons). In Protestant theology it is usually treated within the doctrines of creation and providence.
Former Prophets
[Bible]The Former Prophets are the first four books of the Prophets, the second division of the Hebrew Bible: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. In the Christian Old Testament, the same books are classified as historical books.
Form Criticism
[Doctrine & Theology]Form criticism is a method of biblical interpretation that focuses on the oral stage of transmission before biblical texts were committed to writing; it divides texts into small units of tradition and studies their literary forms and the settings in which they were first used.
Redemptive History
[Doctrine & 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.
Two-Source Hypothesis
[Doctrine & Theology]The Two-Source Hypothesis holds that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were written using both the Gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of the sayings of Jesus called "Q." It is one of the leading theories proposed to explain the Synoptic Problem.
Paschal Candle
[Worship & Rites]The Paschal candle is a large candle lit at Easter whose light represents Christ risen in victory over death. It is used chiefly in churches of liturgical traditions, such as the Catholic and Anglican churches, and some Protestant churches also use it.
Former Prophets
[Bible]The Former Prophets is the collective name for Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings, the books that stand at the beginning of the Prophets division of the Hebrew Bible. Christian Bibles usually classify these books as historical books.
Adoption
[Doctrine & Theology]Adoption is a theological term for the grace by which people who were not by nature children of God are received as God's children through Jesus Christ and obtain the rights of heirs.
Bishop
[Church Offices]A bishop is a senior member of the clergy who oversees a diocese made up of multiple churches and performs the ordination of clergy. The title is used by the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. In Korean, Protestant Bibles and the Methodist Church render the same term with a different word, *gamdok* ("overseer").
Words of Institution
[Worship & Rites]The Words of Institution are the words Jesus spoke over the bread and the cup at the Last Supper. As the scriptural basis for the sacrament, they are read aloud or recited within a prayer whenever the church celebrates Communion.