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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...

The term is a direct reflection of patristic usage, particularly that of Augustine and Hilary. The Protestant scholastics tend to refer to Boethius’s definition but also to recognize its limitation and to offer alternatives such as suppositum intelligens or suppositum intellectuale, a self-subsistent intelligence; quod proprie subsistit, that which properly or of itself subsists; or modus subsistendi, a mode of subsisting. This last term reflects the Protestant scholastic interest in patristic theology,
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