Main Glossary
Words matter! Know the meanings of the words you speak, write, preach and teach to perfectly accomplish the things the LORD God wills.
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ETYMOLOGY (WORDS) |
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Education (Christian)"The deliberate, systematic, and sustained divine and human effort to share or appropriate the knowledge, values, attitudes, skills, sensitivities, and behaviors that comprise or are consistent with the Christian faith. It fosters the change, renewal, and reformation of persons, groups, and structures by the power of the Holy Spirit to conform to the revealed will of God as expressed in the Old and New Testaments and preeminently in the person of Jesus Christ, as well as any outcomes of that effort."1 1 Robert W. Pazmino, Foundational Issues in Christian Education, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987), p. 87. | ||
IdolothytaThe institutional practice that places meat before the Idol. | ||
Insipid Boring, pointless, dull, or bland | ||
InsipienceFoolish and without wisdom | ||
IrascibleEasily provoked to anger. | ||
Jack-legUnskilled and untrained to the accepted standards of one's profession | ||
LatinThe governmental language of the world in the time of Jesus Christ | ||
OpinionativenessLust for conquering.1
Reference: 1Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, The City of God, trans., Marcus Dods, Modern Library Paperback ed. (New York: Random House, Inc., 2000), 464 | ||
SacralCommon religious loyalty that binds believers together. Those within a sacral society are all the members within that societ committed to common religion. | ||
TheoryA hypothesis that has not been proven as fact. The establishment of a theory as fact requires the properties of data, observation and repeatability to establish as scientific fact. | ||