Friday Phraseology: Liberalism
Liberalism (theological): Movement in Protestant *theology since the nineteenth century that is dominated by the goal of modifying Christianity so as to make it…

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Liberalism (theological): Movement in Protestant *theology since the nineteenth century that is dominated by the goal of modifying Christianity so as to make it…
Anthropomorphism: The human tendency to see other things as analogous to ourselves. Thus people sometimes see their pets in overly anthropomorphic terms. In *philosophy of…
Reductionism: An attempt to explain some domain or field by showing that it can be derived from or redescribed in the language of some…
Solipsism: The doctrine that a person has a direct awareness only of his or her own conscious states and is in some way cut…
Fideism: The view that matters of religious and theological truth must be accepted by faith apart from the exercise of reason. In its extreme, fideism…
Supererogation: Moral *actions that go beyond what is required by duty, especially those actions that are commendable and indicative of superior *character. Some Protestants…
Finally, Neff demonstrates how Stanley Grenz, evangelical Baptist theologian, presents his apologia – what Christians really believe and why – to today’s youth. Grenz…