key words

• KW- Monotheism


  The belief that there is only one God (which usually entails the belief that

  God possesses complete power and knowledge).
• KW- omnipotent

  All powerful
• KW- transcendent


  The idea that God is above and beyond space–time; as opposed to

  immanent, existing within space–time.
• KW- ex deo


  Latin, meaning ‘out of God’, as in creation ‘out of God’s

  own being’.
• KW- ex nihilo


  Latin, meaning ‘from nothing’, as in the doctrine of creation ‘out of

  nothing’.
• KW- omniscient


  all knowing
• KW- Incarnate


  Meaning ‘enfleshed’. The doctrine of the Incarnation is that the second

  person of the Trinity – the Son – took on a human body and nature. He was

  made flesh by being born from the womb of Mary.
• KW- immanent


  When applied to God, means, ‘existing within the space–time universe’.
• KW- atonement


  The doctrine that Christ’s obedience, suffering and death on the cross

  caused a reconciliation between humanity and God following the original sin of Adam and Eve.
• KW- redemption


  To buy back, as with the ransom of slaves (Exodus 21:8). ‘Redemption’

  is part of the language of the doctrine of the atonement: the suffering and

  death of Jesus redeems humanity from sin.
• KW- perichoresis


  Greek for ‘rotation’, used in Trinitarian theology to describe the relation

  between the three persons of the Godhead, often translated as ‘mutual

  indwelling’ – the Father is in the Son; the Son is in the Father, and so on.
• KW- hypostases


  Technical term for the idea that God exists as one substance in three

  persons