Sources of Wisdom and Authority

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  1. 2. Name for different branches of Christian Churches
  2. 5. Catholic belief in the authority bestowed upon new priests, bishops, Popes etc
  3. 6. Type of revelation which is believed to be the authors experiences of God
  4. 12. Progressive Christians who generally regard the bible as a soft authority
  5. 13. Conservative protestant branch who regard the Bible as inspired by God and take a hard authority approach
  6. 16. Key theologian of neo-orthodoxy K.B.
  7. 18. Early Christian group who believed that Jesus authority was acquired at his baptism
  8. 21. Branch of Christianity who believe the bible is not the word of God but contains the word of God
  9. 22. Belief that the bible is an authority in the sense that its authors had a strong but fallible understanding of God's word
  10. 23. Bible alone
  11. 24. Early Christian group with a deistic belief that once creation was complete God ceased to act within it.
  12. 25. Collection of authorised books in the bible
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  1. 1. Belief that the bible has the status of law and is infallible
  2. 3. Title given to Jesus to denote his relationship with The Father
  3. 4. Cannot be in error
  4. 7. Books of the first, original covenant with God including the Jewish Torah
  5. 8. Name for the Catholic approach to authority
  6. 9. Griffin's theology which states that God is not omnipotent and can only influence pre-existent matter
  7. 10. Books of the updated covenant with God including the Gospels
  8. 11. Early Christian group who believed that Jesus was created to fulfil a specific role
  9. 14. Early Christian group who believed that created matter was too corrupt for perfect God to become incarnate in Jesus Christ
  10. 15. Branches of Christianity who wish to maintain the longstanding traditions of Christianity
  11. 17. Title given to Jesus to denote his humanity
  12. 19. Conservative Christians who regard the Bible as inspired by God but open to interpretation by the Majisterium
  13. 20. Type of revelation which is believed to be the exact word of God