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Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this topical dictionary, Dr. Richard Muller defines key Latin and Greek theological terms found in various works of dogmatics and theology. Muller goes beyond the mere definition, however, by tracing the word’s historical roots and logical connections in such doctrines as the Trinity, incarnation, atonement, the fall, natural theology, authority and revelation, sacraments, and the church and...

Thus, (1) the principium cognoscendi, the principle of knowing or cognitive foundation, is a term applied to Scripture as the noetic or epistemological principium theologiae, without which there could be no true knowledge of God and therefore no theological system; it is sometimes further distinguished into the principium cognoscendi externum, the external, written Word, and the principium cognoscendi internum, the internal principle of faith which knows the external Word and answers its call, i.e.,
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