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Beginning to study theology is like stepping into a conversation that has been going on for two thousand years. How do you take part in this conversation—or even make sense of it—if you don't understand the vocabulary or know the contributions made by other participants? The Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms is the perfect companion to your theological studies. Among its three hundred-plus...

external relationships. In Western Christianity individualism predominated in the modern era and has had the unfortunate effect of making Christianity primarily a transaction between an individual and God, generally without sufficient emphasis on the believer’s relationship with and responsibility to the larger faith community of the church. . A practice of the medieval Roman Catholic Church that suggested that financial contributions to the church could ensure that a person who had died
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