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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...

theconcept of ingrafted or implanted knowledge, like the idea of a seed of religion (semen religionis, q.v.), assumes the beginning of knowledge to be in the most rudimentary apprehension by the intellect of the work of God in creation and providence or, conversely, in the rudimentary knowledge of God implanted in the intellect by God’s active presence upholding the created order. Some of the later scholastics speak of the ability of the mind to grasp intuitively or immediately through a potentia propinqua,
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