Evangelical Dictionary of Theology

Editor/Author Elwell, Walter A.
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

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Category: Religion & Theology - Christianity
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Table of Contents

    • Preface to the Third Edition
    • Preface to the Second Edition
    • Preface to the First Edition
    • Contributors
    • Abbreviations
    • A
    • Abelard, Peter (1079–1142).
    • Abolitionism.
    • Abortion.
    • Absolution.
    • Accommodation.
    • Accountability.
    • Acedia.
    • Active Obedience of Christ.
    • Acts of Uniformity.
    • Actualistic Ontology.
    • Adam.
    • Adiaphora, Adiaphorists.
    • Administration.
    • Adolescence.
    • Adonai.
    • Adoption.
    • Adoptionism.
    • Adultery.
    • Advent.
    • Adventism.
    • Aesthetics.
    • Affliction.
    • Affusion.
    • African Theology.
    • Agape.
    • Age of Accountability.
    • Aging.
    • Agnosticism.
    • Agricola, Johann (ca. 1494–1566).
    • Agriculture.
    • À Kempis, Thomas.
    • Albertus Magnus (1193–1280).
    • Albigenses.
    • Alcohol, Drinking of.
    • Alcuin (ca. 735–804).
    • Alexander, Archibald (1772–1851).
    • Alexander of Hales (ca. 1170–1245).
    • Alexandrian Theology.
    • Allegory.
    • Alleine, Joseph (1634–68).
    • Allen, Richard (1760–1831).
    • All Saints’ Day.
    • Almighty.
    • Alms, Almsgiving.
    • Altar.
    • Altizer, Thomas J. J.
    • Ambrose (ca. 339–97).
    • Ames, William (1576–1633).
    • Amillennialism.
    • Amish.
    • Amyraldianism.
    • Anabaptism.
    • Anagogical Sense of Scripture.
    • Analogy.
    • Anamnesis.
    • Anathema.
    • Ancestors, Veneration of.
    • Ancient of Days.
    • Andreae, Jakob (1528–90).
    • Angel of the Lord.
    • Angels.
    • Anger.
    • Anglican Communion.
    • Anglo-Catholicism.
    • Anhypostatic Christology.
    • Animals.
    • Annihilationism.
    • Anoint, Anointing.
    • Anomoians.
    • Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109).
    • Anthropology.
    • Anthropomorphism.
    • Anthroposophy.
    • Antichrist.
    • Anticlericalism.
    • Anti-Judaism.
    • Antinomianism.
    • Antiochene Theology.
    • Anti-Semitism.
    • Antithesis.
    • Antitype.
    • Antony of Egypt (ca. 251–356).
    • Apartheid.
    • Aphrahat.
    • Apocalyptic.
    • Apocrypha, New Testament.
    • Apocrypha, Old Testament.
    • Apokatastasis.
    • Apollinarianism.
    • Apologetics.
    • Apologists.
    • Apophatic Theology.
    • Apostasy.
    • Apostle, Apostleship.
    • Apostles’ Creed.
    • Apostolic Fathers.
    • Apostolic Succession.
    • Appropriation.
    • Aquinas, Thomas.
    • Archaeology, Biblical.
    • Archangel.
    • Archbishop.
    • Archdeacon.
    • Architecture.
    • Aridity/Desertion.
    • Aristotle, Aristotelianism.
    • Arius, Arianism.
    • Armageddon.
    • Arminianism.
    • Arminius, Jakob (1560–1609).
    • Armstrongism.
    • Arnold, Eberhard.
    • Art, Christian.
    • Articles, Thirty-Nine.
    • Articles of Religion.
    • Asbury, Francis (1745–1816).
    • Ascension Day.
    • Ascension of Christ.
    • Ascetic Theology.
    • Aseity.
    • Ash Wednesday.
    • Asian American Theology.
    • Asian Theology.
    • Aspersion.
    • Assumption of Mary.
    • Assurance.
    • Astrology.
    • Athanasian Creed.
    • Athanasius (ca. 296–373).
    • Atheism.
    • Atheism, Christian.
    • Athenagoras (ca. 133–ca. 190).
    • Atonement.
    • Atonement, Extent of.
    • Attributes, Communication of.
    • Attributes of God.
    • Aufklärung.
    • Augsburg Confession (1530).
    • Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604?).
    • Augustine of Hippo (354–430).
    • Aulén, Gustaf Emanuel Hildebrand (1879–1978).
    • Authority in the Church.
    • Authority of the Bible.
    • Auxiliary Bishop.
    • Avarice.
    • Averroes.
    • Avicenna.
    • Awakenings, Great.
    • Axiology.
    • Azusa Street Revival.
    • B
    • Babylon.
    • Baillie, John.
    • Balthasar, Hans Urs von (1905–88).
    • Ban, The.
    • Baptism.
    • Baptism, Believers’.
    • Baptism, Infant.
    • Baptism, Lay.
    • Baptism, Modes of.
    • Baptismal Regeneration.
    • Baptism for the Dead.
    • Baptism of Jesus.
    • Baptism with the Spirit.
    • Baptist Tradition, The.
    • Barmen, Declaration of (1934).
    • Barrenness.
    • Barth, Karl (1886–1968).
    • Basel, First Confession of (1534).
    • Basil the Great (ca. 330–79).
    • Baur, Ferdinand Christian.
    • Bavinck, Herman (1854–1921).
    • Baxter, Richard (1615–91).
    • Beatification.
    • Beatific Vision.
    • Beauty.
    • Bediako, Kwame (1945–2008).
    • Begotten.
    • Being.
    • Belgic Confession (1561).
    • Belief, Believe.
    • Believer.
    • Believers’ Baptism.
    • Bellarmine, Robert (1542–1621).
    • Benediction.
    • Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480–547).
    • Berdyaev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1874–1948).
    • Berkeley, George (1685–1753).
    • Berkhof, Louis (1873–1957).
    • Berkouwer, Gerrit Cornelis (1903–96).
    • Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153).
    • Beza, Theodore (1519–1605).
    • Bible.
    • Bible, Inerrancy and Infallibility of.
    • Bible, Inspiration of.
    • Bible, Interpretation of.
    • Biblical Criticism.
    • Biblical Theology.
    • Bioethics.
    • Biography.
    • Birth, New.
    • Birth Control.
    • Bishop.
    • Black Theology.
    • Blasphemy.
    • Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
    • Bloesch, Donald G.
    • Blood.
    • Bodily Presence.
    • Bodily Resurrection.
    • Bodily Resurrection of Christ.
    • Body.
    • Body of Christ.
    • Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (ca. 480–524).
    • Bogomils.
    • Bohemian Brethren (Unitas Fratrum).
    • Bonaventure (1221–74).
    • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906–45).
    • Book of Common Prayer.
    • Book of Concord.
    • Booth, Catherine (1829–90).
    • Booth, William (1829–1912).
    • Born Again.
    • Brethren.
    • Brethren of the Common Life.
    • British Israelitism.
    • Bruce, Frederick Fyvie (1910–90).
    • Bruderhof.
    • Brunner, Heinrich Emil (1889–1966).
    • Buber, Martin (1878–1965).
    • Bucer, Martin (1491–1551).
    • Buddhism.
    • Bulgakov, Sergei Nikolaevich (1870–1944).
    • Bullinger, Johann Heinrich (1504–75).
    • Bultmann, Rudolf (1884–1976).
    • Bunyan, John (1628–88).
    • Burial, Christian.
    • Burnt Offering.
    • Bushnell, Horace (1802–76).
    • Butler, Joseph (1692–1752).
    • C
    • Cajetan, Thomas de Vio (1469–1534).
    • Call, Calling.
    • Calvin, John (1509–64).
    • Calvinism.
    • Calvinistic Methodism.
    • Cambridge Platonism.
    • Campbell, Alexander (1788–1866).
    • Canon.
    • Canonical Approach.
    • Canonical Theism.
    • Canonization.
    • Canon Law.
    • Canon of Scripture.
    • Capitalism.
    • Capital Punishment.
    • Cappadocian Fathers.
    • Cardinal.
    • Cardinal Virtues.
    • Caroline Divines.
    • Cassian, John (ca. 360–435).
    • Casuistry.
    • Cataphatic Theology.
    • Catechisms.
    • Catechist.
    • Catechumen.
    • Cathari.
    • Catholic.
    • Catholic Church, Roman.
    • Cause, Causation.
    • Celibacy.
    • Cereal Offering.
    • Ceremonial Law.
    • Cessationism.
    • Chafer, Lewis Sperry (1871–1952).
    • Chalcedon, Council of (451).
    • Charismata.
    • Charismatic Movement.
    • Charity.
    • Chastity.
    • Chemnitz, Martin (1522–86).
    • Cherub, Cherubim.
    • Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874–1936).
    • Chicago School of Theology.
    • Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.
    • Childhood.
    • Chiliasm.
    • Chinese Theology.
    • Choose, Chosen.
    • Chrism.
    • Christ, Jesus.
    • Christendom.
    • Christening.
    • Christianity and Culture.
    • Christianity and Religions.
    • Christian Liberty.
    • Christians, Names of.
    • Christian Science.
    • Christian Socialism.
    • Christian Year.
    • Christmas.
    • Christology.
    • Christus Victor.
    • Chrysostom, John (ca. 347–407).
    • Church.
    • Church, Authority in the.
    • Church and State.
    • Church Councils.
    • Church Discipline.
    • Church Growth Movement.
    • Church of Christ.
    • Church of Christ, Scientist.
    • Church Officers.
    • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    • City.
    • Civil Disobedience.
    • Civil Religion.
    • Civil Rights.
    • Clark, Gordon Haddon (1902–85).
    • Cleanness, Uncleanness.
    • Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150–ca. 215).
    • Clement of Rome.
    • Clergy.
    • Cloud of Unknowing, The (ca. 1370).
    • Cobb, John B., Jr.
    • Cocceius, Johannes (1603–69).
    • Cohabitation.
    • Coke, Thomas.
    • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834).
    • Collegialism.
    • Comforter.
    • Command, Commandment.
    • Commission, Great.
    • Common Grace.
    • Common Prayer, Book of.
    • Communicable Attributes.
    • Communication of Attributes (Lat.
    • Communication of Operations (Lat.
    • Communion, Holy.
    • Communion of Saints.
    • Communitarianism, Community of Goods.
    • Community.
    • Comparative Religion.
    • Complementarianism.
    • Concept.
    • Conciliarism.
    • Concomitance.
    • Concord, Book of (1580).
    • Concord, Formula of (1577).
    • Concupiscence.
    • Concursus.
    • Condemnation.
    • Conditional Immortality.
    • Cone, James.
    • Confessing Church.
    • Confession.
    • Confession of 1967.
    • Confessions of Faith.
    • Confirmation.
    • Congregationalism.
    • Conscience.
    • Conscientious Objection.
    • Consensus Tigurinus.
    • Consistent Eschatology.
    • Constantinianism.
    • Constantinople, First Council of (381).
    • Constantinople, Second Council of (553).
    • Constantinople, Third Council of (681).
    • Constructive Theology.
    • Consubstantiation.
    • Consummation of the Age.
    • Contemplation.
    • Contextualization.
    • Contingency Argument.
    • Contingent Being.
    • Contraception.
    • Contra-Remonstrants.
    • Conversion.
    • Correlation.
    • Cosmological Argument.
    • Cosmology.
    • Councils, Church.
    • Counseling.
    • Counter-Reformation.
    • Courage.
    • Covenant.
    • Covenant of Grace.
    • Covenant of Redemption.
    • Covenant of Works.
    • Covenant Theology.
    • Creation.
    • Creation, New; Creature, New.
    • Creation and Evolution.
    • Creation Care.
    • Creationism.
    • Creed, Creeds.
    • Cremation.
    • Crisis Theology.
    • Cross, Crucifixion.
    • Cross, Theology of the.
    • Crucifixion.
    • Crypto-Calvinism.
    • Cults.
    • Culture.
    • Curate.
    • Curse.
    • Cyprian (200–258).
    • Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444).
    • Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 310–87).
    • D
    • Dalit Theology.
    • Daly, Mary.
    • Damnation.
    • Danvers Statement.
    • Darby, John Nelson (1800–1882).
    • Dark Night of the Soul.
    • Day-Age Theory.
    • Day of Christ, God, the Lord.
    • Deacon, Deaconess.
    • Dead, Abode of the.
    • Dead, Prayers for the.
    • Deadly Sins, Seven.
    • Dead Sea Scrolls.
    • Dean.
    • Death.
    • Death of Christ.
    • Death of God Theology.
    • Death Penalty.
    • Decalogue.
    • Deception.
    • Deconstruction.
    • Decrees of God.
    • Defilement.
    • Deification.
    • Deism.
    • Deity of Christ.
    • Deliverance.
    • Deluge.
    • Demiurge.
    • Demon, Demonization.
    • Demythologization.
    • Denney, James.
    • Denominations.
    • Deontological Ethics.
    • Depravity, Total.
    • Derrida, Jacques.
    • Descartes, René (1596–1650).
    • Descent into Hell (Hades).
    • Design, Intelligent.
    • Design Argument.
    • Desire.
    • Despair.
    • Determinism.
    • Deus ex Machina.
    • Devil.
    • Devotio Moderna.
    • Dialectic.
    • Dichotomy.
    • Didache.
    • Dilthey, Wilhelm.
    • Diocese.
    • Diodore of Tarsus (d. ca. 394).
    • Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite.
    • Disability.
    • Discernment.
    • Disciple.
    • Discipline, Church.
    • Discrimination.
    • Dispensation, Dispensationalism.
    • Divine Energies.
    • Divine Presence.
    • Divinity of Christ.
    • Divinization.
    • Divorce.
    • Docetism.
    • Doctrine.
    • Dodd, Charles Harold.
    • Dogma.
    • Dominic, Dominicans.
    • Donatism.
    • Doorkeeper.
    • Dooyeweerd, Herman (1894–1977).
    • Dorner, Isaac August (1809–84).
    • Dort, Synod of (1618–19).
    • Double Predestination.
    • Double Procession of the Holy Spirit.
    • Doubt.
    • Doxology.
    • Drama.
    • Dreams and Visions.
    • Drechsel, Thomas.
    • Drink Offering.
    • Drunkenness.
    • Dualism.
    • Dulia.
    • Duns Scotus, John (1266–1308).
    • Duty.
    • Dwight, Timothy.
    • Dyothelitism.
    • E
    • Earth, Age of.
    • Earth, New.
    • Easter.
    • Ebionites.
    • Ecclesia.
    • Eck, Johann (1486–1543).
    • Eckhart, Meister.
    • Ecology.
    • Economics.
    • Ecumenical Councils.
    • Ecumenism.
    • Eddy, Mary Baker.
    • Education.
    • Edwards, Jonathan (1703–58).
    • Effective History.
    • Effectual Calling.
    • Egalitarianism.
    • Egotism.
    • El.
    • Elder.
    • Elect, Election.
    • El Elyon.
    • Elements, Elemental Spirits.
    • Ellul, Jacques (1912–94).
    • Elohim.
    • El Shaddai.
    • Elyah.
    • Emanation.
    • Ember Days.
    • Embodiment.
    • Emergent Christianity.
    • Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82).
    • Empire.
    • Empiricism.
    • Encratites.
    • End of the World.
    • Energies, Divine.
    • Enhypostatic Christology.
    • Enlightenment, The.
    • Environment.
    • Envy.
    • Ephesus, Council of (431).
    • Ephrem the Syrian (306–73).
    • Epicureanism.
    • Epiklesis.
    • Epiphany.
    • Episcopacy.
    • Epistemology.
    • Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?–1536).
    • Erastianism.
    • Erigena, John Scotus (810–77).
    • Error in the Bible.
    • Eschatology.
    • Essence.
    • Essenes.
    • Establishment, Church.
    • Eternal Generation.
    • Eternal Life.
    • Eternal Punishment.
    • Eternal Security of the Believer.
    • Eternity.
    • Ethics, Christian.
    • Eucharist.
    • Eugenics.
    • Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260–ca. 339).
    • Euthanasia.
    • Eutychianism.
    • Evagrius (ca. 345–99).
    • Evangelicalism.
    • Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
    • Evangelism.
    • Evening Prayer, Evensong.
    • Everlasting Life.
    • Everlasting Punishment.
    • Evidence.
    • Evil.
    • Evil, Problem of.
    • Evil One.
    • Evil Spirits.
    • Evolution.
    • Exaltation of Jesus Christ.
    • Ex Cathedra.
    • Excommunication.
    • Exegesis, Biblical.
    • Exemplarism.
    • Exhortation.
    • Existence.
    • Existence of God.
    • Existentialism.
    • Ex Nihilo, Creatio.
    • Ex Opere Operato.
    • Exorcism.
    • Exorcist.
    • Experience.
    • Expiation.
    • Extent of Atonement.
    • External Calling.
    • Extra Calvinisticum.
    • Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
    • Extreme Unction.
    • F
    • Faith.
    • Faithfulness.
    • Faith Healing.
    • Fallen Human Nature of Christ.
    • Fall of Humanity.
    • Family.
    • Fast, Fasting.
    • Fate, Fatalism.
    • Father, God as.
    • Fathers, Church.
    • Feasts and Festivals.
    • Febronianism.
    • Federal Theology.
    • Feeling.
    • Felix Culpa.
    • Fellowship.
    • Fellowship Offering.
    • Feminism, Christian.
    • Feminist Theology.
    • Fertility and Infertility.
    • Fideism.
    • Figural Reading.
    • Filioque.
    • Finitude.
    • Finney, Charles Grandison.
    • Firstborn.
    • Firstfruits.
    • Five Points of Calvinism.
    • Five Ways.
    • Fixed Feast.
    • Flesh.
    • Flood.
    • Florovsky, Georges (1893–1979).
    • Followers of the Way.
    • Food.
    • Footwashing.
    • Foreknowledge.
    • Forgiveness.
    • Form.
    • Formation.
    • Form Criticism.
    • Formula of Concord.
    • Fornication.
    • Forsyth, Peter Taylor (1848–1921).
    • Fortitude.
    • Fortunate Fall.
    • Fosdick, Harry Emerson (1878–1969).
    • Foucault, Michel.
    • Fourfold Sense of Scripture.
    • Four Spiritual Laws, The.
    • Fox, George (1624–91).
    • Franciscan Order.
    • Francis of Assisi (1182–1226).
    • Francke, August Hermann (1663–1727).
    • Freedom, Christian.
    • Freedom, Free Will, and Determinism.
    • Freewill Offering.
    • Frei, Hans.
    • Friend, Friendship.
    • Friends, Religious Society of.
    • Friends of God (Ger. Gottesfreunde).
    • Fruit of the Spirit.
    • Fundamentalism.
    • Fundamentals, The.
    • Fundamental Theology.
    • Funeral.
    • G
    • Gadamer, Hans-Georg.
    • Gallican Articles, Four (1682).
    • Gallicanism.
    • Gallic Confession (1559).
    • Gap Theory.
    • Gehenna.
    • Gender.
    • General Revelation.
    • Generation, Eternal.
    • Generosity.
    • Genetic Engineering.
    • Genevan Catechism (1537).
    • Genre.
    • Gentleness.
    • Gerhard, Johann.
    • German Christians.
    • Gift.
    • Gifts, Spiritual.
    • Gilkey, Langdon B.
    • Global South Christianity.
    • Glorification.
    • Glory.
    • Glory, Theology of.
    • Glossolalia.
    • Gluttony.
    • Gnesio-Lutherans.
    • Gnosticism.
    • God.
    • God, Arguments for the Existence of.
    • God, Names of.
    • Godliness.
    • God of the Gaps.
    • Gogarten, Friedrich.
    • Golden Rule.
    • Good, the Good, Goodness.
    • Good Friday.
    • Good News.
    • Good Works.
    • Gospel.
    • Gospel, Social Implications of.
    • Government.
    • Government, Church.
    • Governmental Theory.
    • Grace.
    • Grace, Means of.
    • Grace Communion International.
    • Grain Offering.
    • Grammatical-Historical Interpretation.
    • Great Awakenings.
    • Great Commission.
    • Great Schism.
    • Great Tribulation.
    • Grebel, Conrad (ca. 1498–1526).
    • Greed.
    • Gregory I the Great (540–604).
    • Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 329–ca. 391).
    • Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335–ca. 395).
    • Gregory Palamas (1296–1359).
    • Griffin, David Ray.
    • Groningen Theology.
    • Grotius, Hugo (1583–1645).
    • Grounding Objection.
    • Guardian Angel.
    • Guilt.
    • Guilt Offering.
    • Gutiérrez, Gustavo.
    • Guyon, Madame.
    • H
    • Hades.
    • Hagiography.
    • Halfway Covenant (1662).
    • Halloween (All Hallows Eve).
    • Hamartiology.
    • Hands, Laying on of.
    • Happiness.
    • Hardening, Hardness of Heart.
    • Harnack, Adolf von (1851–1930).
    • Harris, Howell.
    • Hartshorne, Charles.
    • Hauerwas, Stanley.
    • Head, Headship.
    • Heal, Healing.
    • Heart.
    • Heaven.
    • Heavenlies, The.
    • Heavens, New.
    • Hedonism.
    • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831).
    • Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976).
    • Heidelberg Catechism (1563).
    • Heilsgeschichte.
    • Hell.
    • Hellenism, Hellenization.
    • Helvetic Confessions.
    • Henry, Carl Ferdinand Howard (1913–2003).
    • Heresy.
    • Hermas, Shepherd of.
    • Hermeneutics.
    • Hermetic Literature.
    • Herrnhut.
    • Hesychasm.
    • Hick, John Harwood.
    • Hierarchy.
    • High Church Movement.
    • Higher Criticism.
    • High Priest.
    • Hilary of Poitiers (ca. 315–68).
    • Hinduism.
    • Hippolytus (ca. 170–ca. 236).
    • Hispanic Theology.
    • Historical Criticism.
    • Historical Theology.
    • Historie and Geschichte (Ger. history).
    • History of Interpretation.
    • History of Religion School.
    • History of Salvation.
    • Hodge, Archibald Alexander.
    • Hodge, Charles (1797–1878).
    • Hodgson, Peter C.
    • Hofman, Melchior.
    • Holiness.
    • Holiness Movement.
    • Holocaust, The.
    • Holy Communion.
    • Holy Ghost.
    • Holy of Holies.
    • Holy Orders.
    • Holy Saturday.
    • Holy Spirit.
    • Holy Week.
    • Homoousios.
    • Homosexuality.
    • Hooker, Richard (1554–1600).
    • Hope.
    • Hope, Theology of.
    • Hospitality.
    • Hosts, Lord of.
    • Household Salvation.
    • House of God.
    • Hubmaier, Balthasar (ca. 1480–1528).
    • Human Being.
    • Humanism.
    • Humanism, Christian.
    • Humanity of Christ.
    • Hume, David (1711–76).
    • Humiliation of Jesus Christ.
    • Humility.
    • Hus, Jan (ca. 1372–1415).
    • Hutchinson, Anne.
    • Hymn.
    • Hyperdulia.
    • Hypostasis.
    • Hypostatic Union.
    • I
    • “I Am” Sayings.
    • Ibn Rushd (1126–98).
    • Icon.
    • Idealism.
    • Identification with Christ.
    • Ideology.
    • Idolatry.
    • Ignatius of Antioch.
    • Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556).
    • Illumination.
    • Illuminative Way, The.
    • Image of God.
    • Images, Veneration of.
    • Imagination.
    • Imago Dei.
    • Imitation of Christ.
    • Immaculate Conception.
    • Immanence of God.
    • Immanuel.
    • Immersion.
    • Immigration.
    • Imminence.
    • Immortality.
    • Immutability of God.
    • Impanation.
    • Impassibility of God.
    • Impeccability of Christ.
    • Imprecatory Psalms.
    • Imputation.
    • Incarnation.
    • Inclusive Language.
    • Incommunicable Attributes.
    • Indian Theology.
    • Indigenous Theologies.
    • Indulgences.
    • Inerrancy and Infallibility of the Bible.
    • Infallibility.
    • Infant Baptism.
    • Infanticide.
    • Infant Salvation.
    • Infertility.
    • Infralapsarianism.
    • Iniquity.
    • Inner Light.
    • Inspiration of the Bible.
    • Intercession.
    • Intermediate State.
    • Internal Calling.
    • Internal Testimony of the Holy Spirit.
    • Interpretation of the Bible.
    • Interpretation of Tongues.
    • Invisible Church.
    • Invocation of Saints.
    • Irenaeus (ca. 130–ca. 200).
    • Irish Articles (1615).
    • Irresistible Grace.
    • Islam.
    • Israel, New.
    • Israel and Prophecy.
    • J
    • Jansen, Cornelius Otto (1558–1638).
    • Jansenism.
    • Jealousy.
    • Jehovah.
    • Jehovah's Witnesses.
    • Jerome (ca. 347–419).
    • Jerusalem.
    • Jerusalem, New.
    • Jesuits.
    • Jesus Christ.
    • Jesus Prayer.
    • Jesus Seminar.
    • John of the Cross (1542–91).
    • John the Baptist.
    • Jones, Griffith.
    • Journey.
    • Joy.
    • Judaism.
    • Judaizers.
    • Judgment.
    • Judgment, Last.
    • Judgment, Theological.
    • Judgment of Nations.
    • Judgment Seat.
    • Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342–ca. 1417).
    • Justice.
    • Justification.
    • Justin Martyr (ca. 100–ca. 165).
    • Just War Theory.
    • K
    • Kabbalah (Heb. qābal, “to receive tradition”).
    • Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804).
    • Kataphatic Theology.
    • Kempis, Thomas à.
    • Kenosis, Kenotic Theology.
    • Kerygma.
    • Keswick Convention.
    • Keys of the Kingdom.
    • Kierkegaard, Søren (1813–55).
    • Kindness.
    • King, Christ as.
    • King, Martin Luther, Jr.
    • Kingdom of Christ, God, Heaven.
    • Kneel, Kneeling.
    • Knowledge.
    • Knox, John (1514?–72).
    • Koinōnia.
    • Kulturkampf.
    • Kuyper, Abraham (1837–1920).
    • L
    • Labor.
    • Lactantius (ca. 240–ca. 320).
    • Lamb of God.
    • Landmarkism.
    • Language.
    • Last Day, Days.
    • Last Judgment.
    • Last Rites.
    • Last Supper.
    • Last Things.
    • Latin American Theology.
    • Latitudinarianism.
    • Latria.
    • Latter-day Saints.
    • Lauds.
    • Lausanne Covenant.
    • Law, Biblical.
    • Laying on of Hands.
    • Laziness.
    • Leadership.
    • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716).
    • Leipzig Disputation (1519).
    • Lent.
    • Leo I, the Great.
    • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729–81).
    • Levinas, Emmanuel.
    • Lewis, Clive Staples (1898–1963).
    • Liberal Evangelicalism.
    • Liberalism, Theological.
    • Liberation Theology.
    • Liberty, Christian.
    • Liberty, Religious.
    • Lie, Lying.
    • Life.
    • Light.
    • Likeness of God.
    • Limbo.
    • Limited Atonement.
    • Lindbeck, George.
    • Literal Interpretation.
    • Liturgy.
    • Locke, John (1632–1704).
    • Logic.
    • Logical Positivism.
    • Logos.
    • Lollards.
    • Lombard, Peter.
    • Lonergan, Bernard Joseph Francis (1904–84).
    • Lord.
    • Lord, Jesus as.
    • Lord's Day.
    • Lord's Prayer.
    • Lord's Supper.
    • Lord's Supper, Views of.
    • Love.
    • Love Feast.
    • Loving-kindness.
    • Low Church.
    • Lubac, Henri de.
    • Lucifer.
    • Lust.
    • Luther, Martin (1483–1546).
    • Lutheran Tradition.
    • Luther's Small Catechism.
    • LXX (Septuagint).
    • M
    • MacDonald, George (1824–1905).
    • Machen, John Gresham (1881–1937).
    • Mackintosh, Hugh Ross.
    • Magic.
    • Magisterium.
    • Magnificat.
    • Majoristic Controversy.
    • Major Orders.
    • Male and Female.
    • Mammon.
    • Man, Son of.
    • Mandaeans.
    • Manichaeism.
    • Manson, Thomas Walter.
    • Marburg Colloquy (1529).
    • Marcellus, Marcellians.
    • Marcion (d. ca. 160).
    • Marion, Jean-Luc.
    • Maritain, Jacques.
    • Mark of the Beast.
    • Marpeck, Pilgram.
    • Marriage.
    • Marriage Feast of the Lamb.
    • Marrow Controversy.
    • Martyr, Justin.
    • Martyr, Peter.
    • Martyrdom.
    • Mary, Assumption of.
    • Mary, The Blessed Virgin.
    • Mass.
    • Matins.
    • Matter.
    • Maundy Thursday.
    • Maximus the Confessor (ca. 580–662).
    • May Laws.
    • McFague, Sallie.
    • McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890–1944).
    • Means of Grace.
    • Meat Offering.
    • Mediating Theology (Ger. Vermittlungstheologie).
    • Mediation, Mediator.
    • Meekness.
    • Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260–1328).
    • Melanchthon, Philip (1497–1560).
    • Melchiorites.
    • Melitian Schisms.
    • Melito of Sardis.
    • Memory.
    • Mennonites.
    • Menno Simons (ca. 1496–1561).
    • Mercersburg Theology.
    • Mercy.
    • Mercy Seat.
    • Merit.
    • Merton, Thomas (1915–68).
    • Messiah.
    • Messianic Banquet.
    • Messianic Judaism.
    • Metaphor.
    • Metaphysics.
    • Metempsychosis.
    • Methodism.
    • Metropolitan.
    • Metz, Johannes Baptist.
    • Middle Knowledge.
    • Midtribulation Rapture.
    • Military Service.
    • Millennium.
    • Miller, William (1782–1849).
    • Mind.
    • Ministry.
    • Minjung Theology.
    • Minor Orders.
    • Miracle.
    • Missiology.
    • Missional Theology.
    • Modalism.
    • Model.
    • Moderator.
    • Modernism.
    • Molinism.
    • Moltmann, Jürgen.
    • Monarchianism.
    • Monasticism.
    • Monergism.
    • Money.
    • Monism.
    • Monophysitism.
    • Monotheism.
    • Monothelitism.
    • Montanism.
    • Moon, Sun Myung.
    • Moral Argument.
    • Moral Influence Theory.
    • Moral Theology.
    • Moravian Brethren.
    • Mormonism.
    • Morning Prayer.
    • Mortality.
    • Mortal Sin.
    • Mortification and Vivification.
    • Mosaic Law.
    • Most Holy Place.
    • Mother of God.
    • Mott, John Raleigh (1865–1955).
    • Movable Feast.
    • Mujerista Theology.
    • Müntzer, Thomas.
    • Music, Christian.
    • Mystery.
    • Mystery of Iniquity.
    • Mystery Religions.
    • Mysticism.
    • Myth.
    • Myth of God Incarnate Debate.
    • N
    • Nag Hammadi Codices.
    • Name.
    • Narrative Theology.
    • Nations, Judgment of.
    • Native American Theology.
    • Naturalism.
    • Natural Law.
    • Natural Theology.
    • Nature, Theology of.
    • Nature and Grace.
    • Nazarene.
    • Necessary Being.
    • Nee, Watchman.
    • Negation, Way of.
    • Neo-Calvinism.
    • Neoevangelicalism.
    • Neonomianism.
    • Neoorthodoxy.
    • Neo-Pentecostalism.
    • Neoplatonism.
    • Neo-Thomism.
    • Nestorius, Nestorianism.
    • New, Newness.
    • New Age Movement.
    • New Atheism.
    • New Birth.
    • New Covenant.
    • New Creation, New Creature.
    • New England Theology.
    • New Evangelicalism.
    • New Hampshire Confession (1833).
    • New Haven Theology.
    • New Heavens and New Earth.
    • New Hermeneutic.
    • New Jerusalem.
    • New Light Schism.
    • Newman, John Henry (1801–90).
    • New Quest for the Historical Jesus.
    • New Religious Movements.
    • New School Theology.
    • New Testament.
    • New Testament Theology.
    • Niagara Conferences.
    • Nicaea, Council of (325).
    • Nicaea, Second Council of (787).
    • Nicene Creed.
    • Niebuhr, Helmut Richard (1894–1962).
    • Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892–1971).
    • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844–1900).
    • Nihilism.
    • Ninety-Five Theses (1517).
    • Nominalism.
    • Nonconformity.
    • Nonviolence, Christian.
    • Northfield Conferences.
    • Nouvelle Théologie.
    • Novatian Schism.
    • Numerology.
    • Numinous, The.
    • Nygren, Anders (1890–1978).
    • O
    • Obedience.
    • Obedience of Christ.
    • Oberlin Theology.
    • Obscenity.
    • Occam, William of.
    • Occult.
    • Ockham, William of.
    • Offerings and Sacrifices.
    • Office, Daily (Divine).
    • Officers, Church.
    • Offices of Christ.
    • Ogden, Schubert Miles.
    • Oil, Anointing with.
    • Old Lights, The.
    • Old Roman Creed.
    • Old School Theology.
    • Old Testament.
    • Old Testament Theology.
    • Omission, Sins of.
    • Omnipotence.
    • Omnipresence.
    • Omniscience.
    • Only Begotten.
    • Ontological Argument.
    • Ontology.
    • Open Theism.
    • Oppression.
    • Opus Operatum.
    • Orality.
    • Ordain, Ordination.
    • Order of Salvation.
    • Orders, Holy.
    • Orders, Major.
    • Ordination of Women.
    • Ordo Salutis.
    • Origen (ca. 185–ca. 254).
    • Original Righteousness.
    • Original Sin.
    • Origin of Humanity.
    • Origin of the Soul.
    • Origin of the Universe.
    • Orr, James (1844–1913).
    • Orthodox Tradition.
    • Orthodoxy.
    • Osiander, Andreas (1498–1552).
    • Otto, Rudolf.
    • Overseer.
    • Owen, John (1616–83).
    • Oxford Movement.
    • P
    • Pacifism.
    • Paedobaptism.
    • Pain.
    • Pain of God Theology.
    • Palamas, Gregory.
    • Paley, William.
    • Palmer, Phoebe (1807–74).
    • Palm Sunday.
    • Panentheism.
    • Pannenberg, Wolfhart (1928–2014).
    • Pantheism.
    • Papacy.
    • Parachurch Ministry.
    • Paraclete.
    • Paradise.
    • Paradox.
    • Pardon.
    • Parenthood.
    • Parham, Charles Fox.
    • Parousia.
    • Participation.
    • Pascal's Wager.
    • Paschal Controversies.
    • Passion of Christ.
    • Passover.
    • Pastoral Theology.
    • Patience.
    • Patriarch.
    • Patripassianism.
    • Patristics.
    • Pattern.
    • Paulicians.
    • Paul of Samosata.
    • Peace.
    • Peace Offering.
    • Peccability of Christ.
    • Pelagius, Pelagianism.
    • Penal Substitution.
    • Penance.
    • Pentecost.
    • Pentecostalism.
    • Perfection, Perfectionism.
    • Perichoresis.
    • Perpetual Virginity of Mary.
    • Perseverance.
    • Person.
    • Personalism.
    • Person of Christ.
    • Peter, Primacy of.
    • Peter Lombard (ca. 1100–1160).
    • Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562).
    • Pharisees.
    • Phenomenology of Religion.
    • Philippists.
    • Philo.
    • Philokalia (Gk. philos, “lover”; kalia, “the beautiful, excellent”).
    • Philosophy.
    • Philosophy of Religion.
    • Photian Schism.
    • Photinians.
    • Phronēsis.
    • Physicalism.
    • Pietism.
    • Pilgrimage.
    • Pinnock, Clark H. (1937–2010).
    • Place.
    • Plantinga, Alvin.
    • Plato, Platonism.
    • Plenary Inspiration.
    • Plotinus.
    • Pneumatology.
    • Pneumatomachians.
    • Political Theology.
    • Polity.
    • Polygamy.
    • Polytheism.
    • Poor, Poverty.
    • Pope.
    • Pornography.
    • Porter.
    • Positive Thinking.
    • Positivism.
    • Possession, Demon.
    • Postcolonial Theory.
    • Postlapsarianism.
    • Postliberal Theology.
    • Postmillennialism.
    • Postmodernism.
    • Postsecularism.
    • Posttribulation Rapture.
    • Poverty.
    • Power, Powers.
    • Practical Theology.
    • Pragmatism.
    • Praise.
    • Prayer.
    • Prayers for the Dead.
    • Preach, Preaching.
    • Prebendary.
    • Predestination.
    • Preexistence of Christ.
    • Preexistence of the Soul.
    • Prelacy.
    • Premillennialism.
    • Presbyter.
    • Presbyterianism.
    • Presence, Divine.
    • Preterition.
    • Pretribulation Rapture.
    • Prevenient Grace.
    • Pride.
    • Priest, Christ as.
    • Priesthood.
    • Priests and Levites.
    • Princeton Theology, Old.
    • Principalities and Powers.
    • Priscillianism.
    • Probabilism, Probabiliorism.
    • Problem of Evil.
    • Procession of the Spirit.
    • Process Theology.
    • Prolegomena.
    • Promise.
    • Prooftext.
    • Prophecy, Prophet.
    • Prophet, Christ as.
    • Propitiation.
    • Proposition.
    • Prosperity Gospel.
    • Protestantism.
    • Providence of God.
    • Prudence.
    • Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
    • Psychology and Christianity.
    • Psychology of Religion.
    • Punishment.
    • Purgative Way, The.
    • Purgatory.
    • Puritanism.
    • Q
    • Quadragesima.
    • Quadrilateral, Wesleyan.
    • Quakers.
    • Queer Theology.
    • Quest for the Historical Jesus.
    • Quicunque Vult.
    • Quietism.
    • Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst.
    • Quinquagesima.
    • Qumran.
    • R
    • Racism.
    • Racovian Catechism (1605).
    • Radical Orthodoxy.
    • Radical Reformation.
    • Radical Theology.
    • Rahner, Karl (1904–84).
    • Ramm, Bernard (1916–92).
    • Ramus, Peter (1515–72).
    • Ransom.
    • Rapture of the Church.
    • Rationalism.
    • Rauschenbusch, Walter.
    • Reader.
    • Realism.
    • Realism, Scottish.
    • Realized Eschatology.
    • Real Presence.
    • Reason.
    • Rebaptism.
    • Rebirth.
    • Recapitulation.
    • Reconciliation.
    • Rector.
    • Redeemer, Redemption.
    • Reformation, Catholic.
    • Reformation, Protestant.
    • Reformed Epistemology.
    • Reformed Tradition.
    • Regeneration.
    • Regeneration, Baptismal.
    • Regula Fidei.
    • Reid, Thomas.
    • Reincarnation.
    • Relativism.
    • Relics.
    • Religion, Phenomenology of.
    • Religion, Religious.
    • Religion, Sociology of.
    • Religionless Christianity.
    • Religionsgeschichte.
    • Religious Liberty.
    • Religious Pluralism.
    • Remarriage.
    • Remission of Sins.
    • Remnant.
    • Remonstrants.
    • Renewal, Church.
    • Repentance.
    • Reprobation.
    • Responsibility.
    • Ressourcement.
    • Resurrection of Christ.
    • Resurrection of the Dead.
    • Retaliation.
    • Retrieval.
    • Revelation.
    • Revenge.
    • Revisionist Theology.
    • Revival, Spiritual.
    • Revivalism.
    • Reward.
    • Riches.
    • Ricoeur, Paul (1913–2005).
    • Righteousness.
    • Righteousness, Original.
    • Rights, Human.
    • Ritschl, Albrecht (1822–89).
    • Ritual.
    • Roman Catholicism.
    • Roman Creed, Old.
    • Romanticism.
    • Rorty, Richard.
    • Rowland, Daniel.
    • Ruether, Rosemary Radford.
    • Rule of Faith (Lat. regula fidei).
    • Rural Dean.
    • Russell, Charles Taze.
    • Rutherford, Joseph Franklin.
    • S
    • Sabaoth.
    • Sabbatarianism.
    • Sabbath.
    • Sabellianism.
    • Sacrament.
    • Sacred Space.
    • Sacrifice.
    • Sadducees.
    • Said, Edward.
    • Saint, Saintliness.
    • Saints, Invocation of.
    • Saints, Veneration of.
    • Salvation.
    • Salvation Army, The.
    • Salvation History.
    • Sanctification.
    • Sardica, Council of (343–44).
    • Sartre, Jean-Paul.
    • Satan (Heb. śāṭān, “adversary”).
    • Satanism.
    • Satisfaction.
    • Sattler, Michael.
    • Saumer Academy.
    • Savior.
    • Savoy Conference (1661).
    • Saxon Confession (1551).
    • Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (1893–1957).
    • Sayings of Jesus.
    • Scapegoat.
    • Schaeffer, Francis (1912–84).
    • Schaff, Philip (1819–93).
    • Schism (Gk. schisma, “division”).
    • Schism, Great (1054).
    • Schlatter, Adolf von (1852–1938).
    • Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst (1768–1834).
    • Schleitheim, Seven Articles of.
    • Scholasticism.
    • Scholasticism, Protestant.
    • Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth.
    • Schwabach, Articles of (1529).
    • Schweitzer, Albert.
    • Science and Theology.
    • Scientia Media.
    • Scientific Creationism.
    • Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson (1843–1921).
    • Scopes Trial (1925).
    • Scots Confession (1560).
    • Scottish Realism.
    • Scripture.
    • Scripture, Interpretation of the Bible as.
    • Second Advent of Christ.
    • Second Chance.
    • Second Coming of Christ.
    • Second Death.
    • Second Great Awakening.
    • Sect, Sectarianism (Lat. secta, “party, school, faction,” perhaps deriving from the past participle either of secare, “to cut, to separate,” or of sequi, “to follow”).
    • Secular Christianity.
    • Secular Clergy.
    • Secularism, Secular Humanism.
    • Security of the Believer.
    • Self-Control.
    • Self-Esteem, Self-Love.
    • Self-Existence.
    • Semi-Arianism.
    • Semi-Pelagianism.
    • Senses of Scripture.
    • Sensus Deitatis, Sensus Divinitatis.
    • Sensus Plenior.
    • Sentences.
    • Separation.
    • Separation, Marital.
    • Separation of Church and State.
    • Septuagesima.
    • Septuagint (LXX).
    • Seraph, Seraphim.
    • Sermon on the Mount.
    • Serpent.
    • Servant of the Lord.
    • Service.
    • Session (Lat. sessio).
    • Seven Articles of Schleitheim.
    • Seven Deadly Sins.
    • Seventh-day Adventism.
    • Sexism.
    • Sexual Ethics.
    • Seymour, William J.
    • Shaddai.
    • Shalom.
    • Shedd, William Greenough Thayer (1820–94).
    • Shenoute (AD 348–466).
    • Sheol.
    • Shrove Tuesday.
    • Signs and Wonders.
    • Simeon the New Theologian (949–1022).
    • Simons, Menno.
    • Simplicity, Divine.
    • Simul Iustus et Peccator.
    • Sin.
    • Sin, Conviction of.
    • Sin, Man of.
    • Sin, Mortal.
    • Sin, Unpardonable.
    • Sin, Venial (Lat. venia, “pardon, favor, kindness, forgiveness”).
    • Singleness.
    • Sinlessness of Christ.
    • Sin Offering.
    • Sins, Seven Deadly.
    • Sins of Omission.
    • Situation Ethics.
    • Six Articles, The (1539).
    • Slavery.
    • Sloth.
    • Smalcald Articles (1537).
    • Small Catechism, Luther's.
    • Smith, Joseph.
    • Social Ethics.
    • Social Gospel.
    • Socialism, Christian.
    • Social Justice.
    • Social Theory.
    • Social Trinitarianism.
    • Society.
    • Society of Friends.
    • Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
    • Socinus, Faustus (1539–1604).
    • Sociology of Religion.
    • Solidarity, Human.
    • Solitude.
    • Son of God (Gk. huios tou theou).
    • Son of Man.
    • Soteriology.
    • Soul.
    • Soul Sleep.
    • Sovereignty of God.
    • Space.
    • Special Revelation.
    • Spener, Philipp Jakob (1635–1705).
    • Sphere Sovereignty.
    • Spinoza, Benedict de (1632–1677).
    • Spiration.
    • Spirit (Heb. rûaḥ, “breath of mouth,” Pss. 33:6; 135:17; then “breath of air, wind,” Gen. 3:8 KJV margin).
    • Spirit, Holy.
    • Spirit, Unclean.
    • Spirit Christology.
    • Spirits, Discernment of.
    • Spirits in Prison.
    • Spiritual Body (Gk. sōma pneumatikon).
    • Spiritual Disciplines.
    • Spiritual Exegesis.
    • Spiritual Exercises.
    • Spiritual Gifts.
    • Spirituality.
    • Spiritual Theology.
    • Spiritual Warfare.
    • Sprinkle, Sprinkling.
    • State.
    • States of Jesus Christ.
    • Steiner, Rudolf (1861–1925).
    • Stewardship (Gk. oikonomia, “management of a household”).
    • Stoddard, Solomon (1643–1729).
    • Stoics, Stoicism.
    • Stone-Campbell Movement.
    • Storch, Nicholas.
    • Stott, John R.
    • Strauss, David Friedrich (1808–74).
    • Strong, Augustus Hopkins (1836–1921).
    • Stübner, Markus.
    • Subdiaconate.
    • Sublapsarianism.
    • Subordinationism.
    • Subsidiarity.
    • Substance (Lat. substantia, Gk. hypostasis, “standing under”).
    • Substitution.
    • Suffering.
    • Suffering Servant.
    • Suffragan Bishop.
    • Sunday.
    • Supererogation, Works of.
    • Superintendent.
    • Supersessionism.
    • Supper, Lord's.
    • Supplication.
    • Supralapsarianism.
    • Symbolum Quicunque.
    • Synagogue.
    • Syncretism.
    • Synergism (Gk. synergos, “working together”).
    • Synod (Gk. synodos, “a group of people traveling together”).
    • Systematic Theology.
    • T
    • Tabernacle, Temple.
    • Tauler, Johannes.
    • Taylor, Nathaniel William.
    • Teaching.
    • Technology.
    • Teleological Argument.
    • Temperance.
    • Temple.
    • Temptation.
    • Tempter.
    • Ten Articles (1536).
    • Ten Commandments.
    • Tenebrae.
    • Teresa of Ávila (1515–82).
    • Terminism.
    • Territorialism.
    • Terror, Terrorism.
    • Tertullian (ca. 155–220).
    • Testament.
    • Testimonium Spiritus Sancti Internum.
    • Testimony.
    • Tetragrammaton.
    • Tetrapolitan Confession (1530).
    • Textual Criticism.
    • Textus Receptus.
    • Thank Offering.
    • Theism.
    • Theistic Evolution.
    • Theocracy.
    • Theodicy.
    • Theodore of Mopsuestia (ca. 350–428).
    • Theodoret of Cyrrhus (ca. 393–466).
    • Theologia Crucis.
    • Theologia Gloriae.
    • Theological Interpretation of Scripture.
    • Theological Method.
    • Theological Virtues.
    • Theology Proper.
    • Theophany.
    • Theosis.
    • Theosophy.
    • Theotokos.
    • Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97).
    • Thielicke, Helmut (1908–86).
    • Third Wave.
    • Thirteen Articles, The (1538).
    • Thirty-Nine Articles (1563).
    • Thomas à Kempis (ca. 1379–1471).
    • Thomas Aquinas (1225–74).
    • Thomism.
    • Tillich, Paul (1886–1965).
    • Time (Gk. chronos).
    • Tithing.
    • Tolerance.
    • Tongues, Speaking in (Gk. glossolalia).
    • Torgau Articles, The.
    • Torrance, Thomas Forsyth (1913–2007).
    • Torture.
    • Total Depravity.
    • Tractarianism.
    • Tracy, David.
    • Tradition.
    • Traducianism.
    • Transcendence.
    • Transcendentalism.
    • Transcendental Meditation (TM).
    • Transgression.
    • Translation.
    • Transmigration of Souls.
    • Transubstantiation.
    • Trent, Council of (1545–63).
    • Trespass.
    • Tribulation.
    • Trichotomy.
    • Trinity, The Holy.
    • Troeltsch, Ernst (1865–1923).
    • Trust.
    • Truth.
    • Tübingen School.
    • TULIP
    • Turretin, Francis (1623–87).
    • Twelve Articles of the Peasants (1525).
    • Twofold State of Jesus.
    • Two Kingdoms Doctrine.
    • Two Swords Theory.
    • Type, Typology.
    • U
    • Ubiquity.
    • Ultradispensationalism.
    • Ultramontanism.
    • Unbaptized Infants.
    • Uncleanness.
    • Unction, Extreme.
    • Underhill, Evelyn (1875–1941).
    • Understanding.
    • Unforgivable Sin.
    • Unification Church.
    • Uniformity, Acts of.
    • Union, Hypostatic.
    • Union with Christ.
    • Unitarianism.
    • Unitas Fratrum.
    • Unitive Way, The.
    • Unity.
    • Universalism.
    • Universalism, Hypothetical.
    • Universe, Origin of.
    • Unpardonable Sin.
    • Ursinus, Zacharias.
    • Utilitarianism.
    • Utopianism.
    • Utrecht, Declaration of (1889).
    • V
    • Vainglory.
    • Van Til, Cornelius (1895–1987).
    • Vatican Council I (1869–70).
    • Vatican Council II (1962–65).
    • Veneration of Relics.
    • Veneration of Saints.
    • Vengeance.
    • Venial Sin.
    • Verbal Inspiration.
    • Vermigli, Peter Martyr.
    • Vermittlungstheologie.
    • Vespers.
    • Via Affirmativa, Via Affirmationis.
    • Via Analogia.
    • Via Eminentia.
    • Via Illuminativa.
    • Via Media.
    • Via Negativa.
    • Via Positiva.
    • Via Purgativa.
    • Via Unitiva.
    • Vicar.
    • Vicarious Atonement.
    • Vice.
    • Violence.
    • Virgin Birth of Jesus.
    • Virtue.
    • Visible Church.
    • Vision of God, Visio Dei.
    • Vocation.
    • Voice.
    • Voluntarism.
    • W
    • Waldenses, Waldensians.
    • Waldo, Peter.
    • Walloon Confession.
    • War.
    • Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921).
    • Washing of Feet.
    • Watchman Nee (1903–72).
    • Watts, Isaac (1674–1748).
    • Wave Offering.
    • Way, Follower of the.
    • Way International, The.
    • Way of Affirmation.
    • Way of Illumination.
    • Way of Negation.
    • Way of Purification.
    • Wealth.
    • Wesley, John (1703–91).
    • Wesleyan Tradition.
    • Westcott, Brooke Foss.
    • Westminster Catechisms.
    • Westminster Confession of Faith (1647).
    • Whichote, Benjamin.
    • Whitby, Synod of (664).
    • Whitefield, George (1714–70).
    • Whitehead, Alfred North.
    • Whitsunday.
    • Wiley, Henry Orton (1877–1961).
    • Will.
    • William of Ockham (ca. 1280–1349).
    • Williams, John Rodman (1918–2008).
    • Will of God.
    • Wisdom.
    • Wissenschaft.
    • Witchcraft.
    • Witness, Witnessing.
    • Witness of the Holy Spirit.
    • Wittenberg, Concord of (1536).
    • Wolterstorff, Nicholas.
    • Woman.
    • Womanist Theology.
    • Women, Ordination of.
    • Wonder.
    • Word, Word of God, Word of the Lord.
    • Work.
    • Works.
    • World.
    • World Council of Churches, The.
    • Worldliness and Otherworldliness.
    • Worldview.
    • Worldwide Church of God.
    • Worms, Diet of (1521).
    • Worship.
    • Wrath.
    • Wrath of God.
    • Würtemberg Confession (1552).
    • Wycliffe, John (ca. 1330–84).
    • Y
    • Yahweh.
    • Yale School.
    • Year, Christian.
    • Yoder, John Howard.
    • Yoga.
    • Young, Brigham.
    • Youth.
    • Z
    • Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig von (1700–1760).
    • Zionism.
    • Zoroastrianism.
    • Zurich Agreement (1549).
    • Zwickau Prophets.
    • Zwingli, Ulrich (1484–1531).