Loading...A Christian Education resource on religious identity and Anglicanism, originally from Grace Episcopal Church (Sheboygan, WI) and utilized at incarnation-west-point for sunday-morning-formation.
Definitions of Belief
- Dogma: Confessions of faith that cannot be questioned without apostasy or heresy (e.g., Jesus's resurrection, the Creeds).
- Doctrine: Arguable propositions of faith (e.g., theories of atonement).
- Discipline: Practices and organizational rules (e.g., use of a prayer book, clerical marriage, ordination rules).
Modes of Revelation
- Kataphatic (via positiva): "Positive pathway" describing what God is like (e.g., "God is love").
- Apophatic (via negativa): Stripping away what is not God to encounter Him (e.g., Elijah's "still, small voice").
- General Revelation: Observed via nature and Reason, defined as practical, participatory wisdom.
- Special Revelation: Knowledge of God revealed through Scripture and Tradition.
See also: page-3192139 (Unit 2) and page-3192140 (Unit 3).
