In
reading or learning about Christianity, one encounters numerous words that are
not often found in common usage. There is no better way to learn what these words
mean than a good dictionary of theology. Most of the words you'll need to know
as you become familiar with the faith are defined here ... and probably many you
won't need to know. These definitions have been adapted from "Baker's Dictionary
of Theology," ed. E. Harrison, (Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan),
1960. Definitions have been significantly edited and revised
by Charles Henderson in light of more recent scholarship and to reflect ongoing
conversation between and among Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians.
A
A.D. - A priori - Abaddon - Absolution - Abyss - Active Obedience
- Adiaphora - Adoptionism - Advent - Agnosticism - Albigenses - Amillennialism - Anabaptists - Angel - Animism - Annihilationism
- Anthropic Principle
- Anthropomorphic
- Antichrist - Antinomianism - Apocalypse - Apocrypha - Apollyon - Apologetics - Apollinarianism
- Apostasy - Apostle - Apparition - Archangel - Argument from
Design - Argumentum ad
hominem - Argumentum ad
judicium - Argumentu m ad
populum - Argumentum
ad verecundiam - Ark of the Covenant
- Arianism - Armageddon - Arminianism - Ascended Master
-Ascension - Assumption - Assurance - Astral Projection
- Astrology - Atheism - Atonement - Aura
- Autograph - Autonomy B
Baal - Babel - Babel, Tower of
- Baptism - Baptismal Regeneration
- Bible - Blasphemy - Book of Life - Born Again -
Bride of Christ C
C.E. - Caesar - Calvary - Calvinism - Canon - Capital punishment
- Capital sins - Catholic - Causality - Cessationism - Chakra - Channeling - Charismatic Gifts
- Chiliasm - Charity - Cherub/Cherubim
- Christ - Christian - Christology - Church - Circumcision - Cities of refuge
- Clergy - Codex - Common
Grace - Communicatio
idiomatum - Communion - Condemnation - Conditional
immortality - Confession - Confessional - Confirmation - Congregation - Consubstantiation
- Contrition - Conversion - Conviction - Coptic - Corban - Cosmological
argument - Cosmology - Covenant - Covenant Theology - Creation - Creationism - Cross - Cult D
Damnation - Deacons - Death - Decalogue - Decrees, of God
- Deduction - Deism - Deity
- Demon - Deontology - Depravity - Determinism - Devil - Dialectic - Diaspora - Dichotomy - Didache - Didactics - Disciple - Diocese - Dispensation(alism) - Divination - Divinity - Docetism - Doctrine - Dogma - Donatism - Dowsing - Dualism E
Ecclesiology -
Edify - Efficacy - Eisegesis - Elect,
Election - Empiricism - Epistemology - Eschatology - Eternal
life - Eternal Security - Ethics - Eucharist - Eunuch - Eutychianism - Evil - Evolution - Excommunication
- Exegesis - Existentialism -
Expiation F
Faith - Fall,
The - False Prophet,
(The) - Falsifiability -
Fast, Fasting - Fatalism - Fellowship - Fideism - Filioque - Firstborn - Forgiveness - Fool
- Foreknow, Foreknowledge -
Free will - Freethinker G
Gehenna - Gentile - Gifts,
Spiritual Gifts - Gnosticism - God
- Gods, False - Gospel - Grace
- Guilt H
Hades - Hamartiology -
Heaven - Hedonism - Hell
- Henotheism - Heresy - Heterodoxy - Higher Self - Holy, Holiness - Holy Orders - Holy Spirit - Holy Water - Homiletics - Humanism - Humility - Hypostatic Union I
Idol, Idolatry - Immaculate Conception
- Image of God - Immutability - Impute,
Imputation - Immortality -
In facto - In fieri - Incarnation - Induction - Indulgence - Inerrancy - Infant baptism -
Infidel - Infinity - Infralapsarianism -
Inspiration - Intermediate state J
Jehovah - Jesus - Jesus
Only Movement - Jews - Judgment - Just,
Justice - Justify, Justification K
Karma - Karma - Kenosis - Kingdom of God L
Laity - Law - Law of non-contradiction
- Laying on of hands
- Liberalism - Limited atonement
- Logic - Logos
- Lord's Supper - LXX M
Man - Manuscript - Materialism - Martyr - Mass
- Means of Grace -
Mediation, Mediator - Mercy - Messiah - Metaphysics - Millennium - Minuscule - Miracle - Modalism - Monarchianism - Monergism - Monism - Monolatry - Monophycitism - Monotheism -
Moral government
theology - Mormonism -
Mortal Sin N
Naturalism - Naturalistic
evolution- Neo-orthodoxy
- Nestorianism - Nun O
Objectivism - Occam's Razor - Occult - Omnipotence - Omnipresence - Omniscience - Ontological Argument
- Ontology - Oracles - Ordination - Ordo salutis - Original Sin - Orthodoxy P
Panentheism - Pantheism - Papyrus - Parable - Paradise - Parapsychology -
Parousia - Pascals Wager - Pedobaptism - Pelagianism - Penance - Pentateuch - Pentecost - Permissive decree
- Perseverance - Person - Philosophy - Pharisee - Pluralism - Pneumatology - Polytheism - Pope
- Postmillennialism - Postmodernism - Pragmatism - Prayer - Pre-Adamites - Pre-existence - Predestine, Predestination
- Premillennialism - Preterition - Priest - Prophet - Propitiation - Purgatory R
Rapture - Rationalism - Reconcile, Reconciliation
- Redemption - Regeneration - Reincarnation - Relativism - Religion - Repentance - Resurrection - Revelation - Righteousness - Rosary S
Sacerdotalism - Sacrament - Sadducee - Salvation - Sanctify, Sanctification -
Sanhedrin - Scholasticism - Scriptures - Second
Coming, The - Septuagint, The - Sin - Skepticism - Sola
Fide - Sola Gratia - Sola Scriptura - Son of God - Soteriology - Soul Sleep - Sovereignty - Spiritual Gifts - Subjectivism - Supralapsarianism
- Synagogue - Synergism - Synoptic Gospels
T
Tabernacle - Teleological argument
- Teleology - Temptation - Testament - Tetragrammaton - Theism - Theodicy - Theology - Theophany - Tithe
- Total Depravity - Transcendence - Transfiguration - Transubstantiation
- Tribulation, The - Trichotomy - Trinity - Tritheism - Type,
Typology U
Uncial - Unitarianism - Universalism V
Vellum - Venial Sin - Vicarious Atonement
W
Word, The - Worship - Wrath Y
YHWH - Yin and Yang - Yoga - Zodiac | 
