Glossary of buzzwords used on Table Talk Radio.
| Absolution | The remission of sins and the freeing of guilt. The pastor standing in the stead of Christ forgives sins. |
| Adiaphora | Neither forbidden nor commanded in the Scriptures. |
| Adoption | Our entrance into God’s family, best seen in Romans 8:15. |
| Amillennialism | The end times view that there is no literal thousand year reign of Christ, but that the thousand year reign of Christ begins at Christ’s crucifixion until the day He returns in glory. |
| Angel | |
| Antilegomena | Things contradicted or disputed. The books of the Bible that were not immediately accepted as Holy Scripture, e.g. Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, Jude. |
| Apocryphal | Lit, those having been hidden away. Usually applied to the books that were considered by the Church as useful, but not divinely inspired. |
| Artolatria | |
| Ascension | 40 days after the resurrection of Jesus, He ascends into heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father. |
| Atonement | Lit, “to cover”. God’s wrath is covered by the blood of the sacrifice, esp. the blood of Christ. |
| Attributes of God | |
| Bagophanes | |
| Baptism | The Lord’s work, delivering to us the promise of the forgiveness of sins, adopting us into his family, calling us by His name, opening up the doors if heaven, forgiving us of our sins, giving us eternal life by water and the Word. |
| Baptismal regeneration | Through baptism the Lord regenerates us and gives us new birth. |
| Baptizo | |
| Bios | |
| Bishop | |
| Born Again | |
| Canon | The books of the Bible that are recognized by the church as inspired by God. |
| Canonical Scriotures | |
| Capernaitic | The teaching that the eating of Christ’s body and blood in the Eucharist is cannibalistic. |
| Catholic | |
| Chairete | |
| Chaos | |
| Chi Rho | |
| Church Year | |
| Comfort | |
| Concupiscence | The tendency of our sinful nature toward sin. Considered by God to be sin. |
| Conscience | |
| Consubstantiation | The belief that the sacrament contains both bread and wine and Christ’s body and blood. Allows for a 50/50 mixture of each, and Lutherans don’t teach that. |
| Coronavirus | |
| Deeds Not Creeds | |
| Demonology | |
| Diaspora | |
| Discipleship | |
| Ecclesiology | The study of the Church. |
| Efficacy | The doctrine that says scripture does what it says it does. |
| Election | Before the creation of the world, the Lord chose whom he would save. |
| Emergency | |
| Enlightenment | |
| Epiphany | Revealing. Term applied to the birth, Baptism, appearance of the star, and similar events in Christ’s life. It is also applied to January 6, celebrated in commemoration of the visit of the Magi. |
| Eschatology | The study of the end times. |
| Ex Nihilo | Out of Nothing, like how God created the Universe |
| faith | God’s gift given to us by His Word that receives the benefit of Christ’s death on the cross. Namely, life, salvation and forgiveness. |
| Fides Directa – Fides Reflecta | |
| Foreknowledge | |
| Genus maiestaticum | The attributes of Christ’s divine nature are ascribed and communicated to the human nature. |
| Gospel | “Good news” the Good News of Jesus shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins. |
| Guilt | |
| Hapax legomenon | A word that only occurs once in the Bible. |
| Hermeneutics | The study of how we read and study a text, especially Scripture. |
| Holy Spirit | |
| Homoousia | “Same substance”. Jesus is of one substance with the Father. |
| hope | |
| Humiliation | Referring to Christ’s humiliation. He humbled himself and did not use his divine attributes at times. |
| Hypostasis | |
| Ichthus | |
| Image of God | |
| Immutability | The attribute of God that says God does not change. |
| Incarnation | The belief that the Son, second person of the Trinity,”became flesh” when he was miraculously conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary. |
| Infallible | Unable to err. Often used to describe the Scriptures. |
| Jesus | The name of God the Son, meaning “He will save us from our sins.” |
| Justification | To declare righteous. Article IV, Augsburg Confession. |
| Makarios | |
| Marks of the Church | Phrase used to describe how we know where the church is. Things that create faith and trust in Christ. Word and Sacraments. |
| Martyrdom | |
| Maundy Thursday | |
| Metanoia | |
| Minor Ban | |
| Modalism | The belief that the different persons of God are God switching among different modes. A heresy. |
| Mystery | |
| Mystical Union | |
| Mysticism | A connection with God apart from means. An immediate connection with God. A connection with God through the emotions. |
| Nave | |
| Nomos | |
| Nunc dimittis | “Now, dismiss.” From the Song of Simeon: Lord, let now your servant depart in peace according to your Word. |
| Ochima | |
| Office | |
| Operating Grace | |
| Order | |
| Original Sin | Our inherited sin that manifests itself in actual sin. |
| Orthodox | “Right praise.” Right doctrine. Someone who teaches according to the Scriptures. |
| Pantheism | The belief that God is in everything. |
| paraclete | |
| Passion | |
| Personal union | Union of the two natures of Christ. |
| Perspicuity of Scripture | |
| Pietism | The theology that says progress in good works is more important than having a right understanding of doctrine. |
| Pilgrimage | A spiritual journey. Part of the medieval Roman Catholic piety and penance. |
| Preservation | |
| Profaned | |
| Propitiation | Jesus is the sufficient sacrifice for our sins, satisfying the wrath of God. |
| Quickening | |
| Rage | |
| Rectilinear | The prophecies of Christ in the OT were fulfilled by Christ. |
| Redemption | Jesus has purchased us with us blood. He has redeemed us. |
| Regeneration | |
| Renovation | |
| Repentance | |
| Reprobate | Calvinist term. God elected certain people to be damned: the reprobates. |
| Resurrection | The reuniting of body and soul together. |
| Revelation | God reveals a truth. Natural (in the world) and spiritual (God reveals it through Scripture). |
| Root Canal | |
| Sabaoth | |
| Sacrament | |
| Sacramentarian | |
| Sacrifice | |
| Saint | Literally, “Holy One.” In the church, one who is baptized and believes in Christ. |
| Sanhedrin | The council of 71 Jewish authorities who governed the Jewish nation while under the rule of Rome. |
| santification | From the Latin “sanctus” (meaning holy). Being made holy. Sanctification, in the broad sense, is everything the Holy Spirit does to bring us into the Holy presence of God. Also in the narrow sense, the work of the holy spirit through the means of grace to increase in us good works. |
| Sedes Doctrinae | |
| Sensus literalis unus est | “The literal (or intended) sense is one.” The literal sense is the meaning of the text. |
| Shame | |
| Simul justus et peccator | Simultaneously saint and sinner. |
| Soteriology | Systematic Theology. The study of the theology of salvation. |
| Spotless | |
| State of Wrath | |
| Sting | |
| String | |
| Supplication | |
| Syncretism | The practice where people of different religions worship together as if worshiping the same God. |
| Synergism | The idea that man and God work cooperate in salvation. |
| Systemic Sin | |
| The Finite Cannot Contain The Infinite | |
| the Most Certain | |
| The Sword | |
| Theodicy | From Greek, meaning “judgment of God.” Theodicy is the question of how is God’s justice and goodness manifest when bad things are happening. e.g. when the question is asked “How can bad things happen to good people.” |
| Theophany | The visible appearance of God in our world. |
| Theosis | Deification, used mostly by Eastern Orthodox. Denies forensic justification. |
| Transubstantiation | The belief that in the Sacrament the elements actually change into the Body and Blood of Christ, and bread and wine cease to exist. |
| Triggered | |
| Universal Church | |
| Vestments | |
| vision | |
| Vocation | |
| Weimar Altarpiece | |
| Witness | |
| Wittenberg Opinion | |
| Worthy | |
| Wrath of God | Wrath means Anger. Most people think of God as just kind of a nice guy – just a friendly fellow. And the idea that he would be really, really, mad about sin just seems to escape most people. But the Bible says otherwise. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness…” God is mad at sin. |