Terms for REL 209: Paul and His Letters
Last updated 30 May 2016.
You are responsible for learning all the terms in this list as they are used in class or appear in the assigned readings
throughout the semester. Look in the textbook(s) for definitions or explanations. Use also other sources listed in the
syllabus as well as resources in the library or on the Web.
Pay attention to the use of these words in your readings and in class. Never be afraid to ask me or others what a term
means (but do the research yourself first).
Terms in yellow may be on the midterm exam.
In addition, terms in green may be on the final exam.
AD
adiaphoron
agape
akoe
Alexander the Great
allegory
already & not yet
anticipatory participation
Antioch
anthropology
apatheia
apocalypse
apocalyptic(ism)
Apocrypha
apostasy
apostle
apostolic authority
apotheosis
arete
Athens
Augustine
autarkeia
baptism
Barth, Karl
Baur, F. C.
BC
BCE
Beker, J. Christiaan
biblical theology
Bousset, Wilhelm
Bultmann, Rudolf
canon
CE
charismata
Christ
Christ-event; Jesus-event
christocentric
christological titles
Christology
church
circumcision
coherence
commensality
communion
contingency
conversion
cosmology
cosmopolitan ethos
cosmopolitanism
covenant
creatio ex nihilo
cult
cultic
Cynicism
Dead Sea Scrolls
demythologization
deuterocanonical
deutero-Pauline
Diaspora
diatribe
Dionysiac mystery
dikaiosyne
disputed letters
Docetism
doctrine
dogmatic theology
dualism
ecclesiology
ecstasy
eisegesis
ekklesia
election
Eleusinian mystery
eleutheria
emic
Emperor cult
enthusiasm
erga tou nomou
eschatology
etic
euangelion
exegesis
exhortation
faith in faith
Gabler
Gentile
gloss
glossolalia
gnosis
Gnosticism
gospel
hagioi
Heilsgeschichte
Hellenism
heresy
hermeneutics
historical criticism
History of Religion School
hos me
hymn
hypakoe
incarnation
indicative & imperative
interpolation
Isis-Osiris mystery
Israel
Jesus-event
Jew
Josephus
Judaism
Judaizers
kairos
Käsemann, Ernst
kata physin
kerygma
Koine (Greek)
koinonia
kyrios
legalism
Lord’s Supper
LXX
Marcion
Messiah
metaphor
mysterion
mystery religion
myth
Nag Hammadi
natural theology
nomos
ordo salutis
paraenesis
paraenetic
Parousia
passion
(the) Pastorals
Pelagianism
pericope
pesher
Pharisee
Philo (of Alexandria)
pistis
pistis tou Christou
Plato
Platonism
pneuma
pneumatikoi
pneumatology
post-existence
pre-existence
prophecy
predestination
pseudonym
(Khirbet) Qumran
rabbi
rabbinism
redeemer
redeemer myth
Religionsgeschichtliche
Schule
resurrection
revelation
saint
sarx
Saul
Schweitzer, Albert
Septuagint
simul justus et peccator
Sitz im Leben
Socrates
soma
Son of God
Sophia
soteria
soteriology
soul
spirit
stoicheia
Stoicism
sympatheia
synagogue
syncretism
syncretistic
Tanak
telic
theocentric
theodicy
theology
Torah
tradition
undisputed letters
virtues & vices
Weltanschauung
Zeitgeist