Terminology Tuesday: Theriolatry
Theriolatry Worship of animals. some beliefs in the animal-incarnations of the divinity, were certainly in vogue. A few of the more ancient cult-titles would be sufficient evidence
Terminology Tuesday: Peshitta
Watch this clip from the movie ‘The Professor and the Madman’: PESHITTA. Probably between the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 3rd c., the first Syriac translati
Terminology Tuesday: Remonstrants
Remonstrants “Arminians,” followers of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius, rejected certain teachings of orthodox Calvinism, were condemned by the Synod of
Terminology Tuesday: Pseudonymity & Pseudepigraphy
Pseudonymity and pseudepigraphy denote the practice of ascribing written works to someone other than the author—that is, the works in question are falsely (pseud-) named (onoma,
Terminology Tuesday: Praxis and Orthopraxis
PRAXIS AND ORTHOPRAXIS ‘Praxis’ essentially means ‘action’. In theology it gained currency through *liberation theology. Theology usually emphasizes orthodo