An (incomplete) LEXOGRAPHY
for The Sacred Canopy

 

ad hoc (Latin):  to/for this thing/matter

 

ad majorem Dei Gloriam (Latin): for the greater glory of God

 

anthropodicy: the problem of human evil (in a world made by God)

 

antinomian: believer in faith alone as necessary for salvation

 

argumentum ad hominem (Latin):  argument made based on the individual

 

argumentum contra hominem (Latin):  Same as above .

 

Aufgehoben (German): abolished, repealed, canceled, rescinded

 

Christology: that part of theology that deals with the person and works of Jesus Christ

 

cosmos (Greek): the orderly, harmonious universe

 

ecclesiology: theological doctrine as revealed through the church

 

epistemological: related to the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity

  

eschatology: (1) a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of mankind; (2) a belief concerning death, the end of the world, or the ultimate destiny of mankind; specifically : any of various Christian doctrines concerning the Second Coming, the resurrection of the dead, or the Last Judgment

 

eurhythmy: the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding.

 

ex nihilo (Latin);  from nothing  (The whole phrase is Ex nihilo nihil fit. Nothing is born from nothing)

 

ex post facto (Latin):  after the event has happened, in retrospect

 

exogamy: marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law

 

extra ecclesiam nulla salus (Latin): there is no safety or deliverance outside the church

 

heuristic: of or relating to a general formulation that serves to guide investigation, an instructional tool or device.

 

hieros gamos (Greek): sacred marriage

 

hypostatized: regarded or treated as real; construed a conceptual entity as something concretely real

 

ipso facto (Latin):  by the fact itself, the fact speaks for itself

 

isomorphic: a one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two or more sets

 

justificato (Latin): justified or with the matter having been justified

 

Koinonia (Greek): Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community

 

legerdemain: sleight of hand; any artful deception or trick; an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

 

mana: primitive, animistic conception of psychic energy

 

messianism: (1) belief in a messiah; (2) belief that a particular cause or movement is destined to triumph or save the world; (3) zealous devotion to a leader, cause, or movement.

 

millenarianism: relating to or believing in the doctrine of the millennium, the reappearance of Christ at the end of a thousand years

 

mimetic: using imitative means of representation

 

moiety: either of two kinship groups based on unilateral descent that together make up a tribe or society; sometimes the dynamic that is set up by opposites

 

mutatis mutandis (Latin): literally ‘with the things which need to be changed having been

changed’

 

miscegeny: sexual liaisons that cross the color line; the interbreeding, cohabitation, or marriage of persons of different races or of different racial backgrounds

 

nomoi or nomos (Greek): originally a district or an area governed by law; here used more broadly to refer to the ordered realm of human society

 

odalisques: female slaves or members of a harem

 

ontology/ontological: of or relating to the nature of being itself

 

opus alienum (Latin):  someone else’s work

 

opus proprium (Latin):  one’s own work

 

realissimum (Latin): most actual, most real

 

solipsistic: viewing the self as the only reality that can be known or verified

 

soteriology: the theological doctrine of salvation as effected by Jesus

 

sub specie aeternitatis (Latin): under the appearance of eternity

 

sui generis (Latin): of its own kind, of its own production

 

theodicy: a way to vindicate God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil

 

totaliter aliter (Latin): completely otherwise

 

tout court (French): on the whole, everything considered

 

Weltanschauung (German): world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology