The follow is a list of terms every beginning apologist should know.
- Christ of Faith—The theological person of Jesus
- Historical Jesus—The actual person/man Jesus who walked the earth
- Source Criticism—Attempt to trace back the literary source of the Gospels
- Synoptic Problem—How do we account for the similarities and differences between the synoptics?
- Two Document Theory—Mark, earliest Gospel, gives framework but lacks much teaching and from Q
- Q—(1890) Source that contained many of the sayings and teachings
- Form Criticism—An analysis of the forms in which the narratives of the Gospels come down to us
- Demythologize—Getting rid of miracles and get to the sole teaching of Jesus—Gospels not historical, spiritual truths, dropping theological claims (Bultmann)
- Criterion of Double Dissimilarity—Something that Jesus said that was either according to early Judaism or early Church Jesus probably didn’t say
- Criterion of Multiple Attestation—Many sources giving the same account
- Criterion of Embarrassment—If the information could potentially damage the truth to the claim it was probably true
- Redaction Criticism—Effects of the editor’s own literary styles and theological presuppositions as put together in the Gospel accounts
- Syncretism—Pulling together different ideas from different sources and compiling it into the same thing
- Cynicism—Identifies Jesus socially and economically: peasant farmer economically oppressed
- The Jesus Seminar—Most well known group of the second search
- Bibliographical Test—An examination of the textual transmission by which documents reach us. Not having the originals, tests how reliable are the manuscripts we have in regards to number and time interval from autograph to extant copy
- Autograph—The original text
- Extant Manuscript—The copies of the text made from the Autograph
- Internal Test—Date and authorship
- Counter-Productive Features—points to show that the document is not a later fabrication, which would eliminate the point as being fabricated
- External Test—Extrabiblical evidence of Jesus
- Testamonium Falvianum—discusses Jesus, Arabic helpful
- Pagan Copycat Theory—story of Jesus copied by pagan stories
- The Composite Fallacy—one bit of information speaking/representing the whole
- The Terminological Fallacy—using a term out of context (baptism of pagans to dunking in a river)
- The Chronological Fallacy—in order for the copy cat to work it must precede Christianity
- The Dependency Fallacy—putting other pieces of information that depend on another
- Tetragrammaton—ego eimi “I AM”
October 6, 2012 at 23:03
This is much appreciated by me!