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• Suffering

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Suffering is the pain and hardship that people experience. In Christianity the term refers especially to the Passion that Jesus Christ endured on the cross and to the trials believers face because of their faith or in the course of life.

• Seven Sacraments

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Seven Sacraments are the seven rites that the Catholic Church professes to be signs of grace instituted by Christ: Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. Most Protestants recognize only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

• Angel Worship

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Angel worship refers to offering angels the worship or prayer that belongs to God alone. Protestants reject it on the basis of Colossians 2:18 and other passages.

• Christian Liberty

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Christian liberty is the Protestant teaching that those who believe in Christ have been set free from the dominion of sin, the condemnation of the law, and human ordinances without basis in Scripture, so that they may serve God and their neighbor in love.

• Redemption

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Redemption is the act of paying a price to release a slave or captive and set that person free. In Christianity, it refers to the teaching that Christ paid the price through his death on the cross and thereby set people free from sin and death.

• Reconciliation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Reconciliation is the restoration of a relationship that has become hostile or estranged. In Christian theology, it refers both to the restoration of the relationship between God and humanity through Christ and to the resulting restoration of relationships among people.

• Hypostatic Union

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The hypostatic union is the Christological teaching that in the one person of Jesus Christ true divinity and true humanity are joined in a single hypostasis (person), without being mixed or divided.

• Christian Perfection

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Christian perfection is the teaching that believers can attain, in this life, a state of wholly loving God and neighbor. Systematized by John Wesley, it is regarded as a distinctive feature of Methodist and Holiness theology.

• Illumination of the Holy Spirit

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The illumination of the Holy Spirit is a theological term for the work by which the Holy Spirit enlightens the human heart to understand and receive the meaning of Scripture that has already been written.

• Fallen Angel

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A fallen angel is a spiritual being created by God as a good angel that rebelled against God and fell from its original place. Christian tradition generally identifies Satan and demons as fallen angels.

• Eros

  [Doctrine & 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.

• Glory of God

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The glory of God refers to the majesty and beauty of God's being and character and to their manifestation in the world. The term can also denote the act of human beings exalting and praising God.

• Supralapsarianism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Supralapsarianism is a view within the Reformed doctrine of predestination which holds that, in the order of God's decrees, the decree concerning the election and reprobation of human beings logically precedes the decrees concerning creation and the fall.

• Moral Influence Theory

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The moral influence theory is a theory of the atonement holding that the heart of the atonement lies in Christ's death on the cross revealing God's love, which moves human hearts and leads people to repentance and love.

• Genevan Psalter

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Genevan Psalter is a congregational songbook produced by the church of Geneva under John Calvin during the Reformation. It renders all 150 Psalms into metrical French verse set to tunes and was completed in 1562.

• Religious Order

  [Organization & Polity]

  A religious order is a community of men or women religious who live under a common rule, take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and pray together. Religious orders exist mainly in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.

• River of the Water of Life

  [Bible]

  The river of the water of life is the clear river in Revelation 22 that flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the New Jerusalem. Drawing on the river of Eden and the river of Ezekiel's temple vision, it serves as an image of the life that God gives.

• Exemplary Preaching

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Exemplary preaching is a method of preaching that presents the actions and faith of biblical figures as examples for believers today to imitate or avoid. The term is commonly used in contrast to redemptive-historical preaching.

• Clerical Celibacy

  [Organization & Polity]

  Clerical celibacy is a discipline that requires members of the clergy to remain unmarried and celibate. It is most notably practiced by the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, while Protestant churches have not followed it since the Reformation.

• Futurism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Futurism is an interpretive approach holding that most of the end-time prophecies of Scripture, including those of the Book of Revelation, remain unfulfilled and will be fulfilled just before the second coming of Christ.