Theology 110

Definitions
• Etymology
• Essential
• Funtional
• Normative – contextual
• historical
 Theology 
• from the Greek Θεός meaning "God"
• and λόγος meaning "study of“
• is the systematic and rational study
of religion and its influences and of
the nature of religious truths
 Theology 
1.God revealing
himself to
humanity
(revelation)
 Theology 
2. Man’s response
to God (faith)
 Theology 
3. Man’s interpersonal
relatioship with his
fellowmen as proof of
their connection with God
(praxis)
 Theology 
1. God revealing himself to
humanity (revelation)
2. Man’s response to God (faith)
3. Man’s interpersonal relatioship
with his fellowmen as proof of
their connection with God
(praxis)
 Revelation
• God's disclosure of Himself 
and His will to His creatures
• God is pleased  to make a
supernatural revelation of 
himself (Hebrew 1:1) 
 Faith
• "to trust, to have confidence,
faithfulness, to be reliable, to assure".
• The Bible (Hebrews 11) says that faith
is "the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen."
 Interpersonal relationship
• social associations, connections, or
affiliations between two or more
people.
• There are different levels of
intimacy and sharing concerning
centered around something(s) shared
in common. 
 Praxis
•  is the process by which a theory,
lesson, or skill is enacted,
practiced, embodied, or realised
• "Taste and see that God is good,"
psalm 34:8 says
 Orthodoxy-orthopraxis
• Ortho - from Greek word ὀρθός meaning
"straight" or "correct"
• Dox comes from the Greek, "doxa," and
means "thought" or "teaching"
• Praxis - From Ancient
Greek πρᾶξις (praksis, 
“action, activity, practice”)