Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology
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Elwell, Walter A.
Publication Year: 2017
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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).