Index: THEOLOGYGLOSSARY - THEOLOGY-S

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Info @ Glossary of common theological terms

@ SACRIFICIAL PRINCIPLES –– regulations on sacrifices, offerings, and priests or the underlying general truths taught or symbolized by them (e.g., there is no atonement for sin without shed blood)

@ SANCTIFICATION –– God's gracious and powerful work of making sinners holy in heart and conduct through the internal ministry of the Holy Spirit, applying the death and resurrection of Christ to them, so that they increasingly die to sin and live unto righteousness in the whole man

@ SEPARATION PRINCIPLES –– those truths about the separation of God's people from sin and the unbelieving world which were symbolized or taught by certain ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant (e.g., the distinction between clean and unclean meats, the prohibition of mixing seeds or types of cloth)

@ SITUATIONISM –– the ethical view that right and wrong cannot be defined in advance for general types of circumstances and actions, so that moral decisions should not be based upon laws; the "loving" . thing to do must be determined by the situation itself, using a utilitarian approach (seeking the greatest pleasure or happiness for the greatest number of people)

@ SOJOURNERS –– those who are alien to the people of a land but reside with them

@ SOLA SCRIPTURA –– (Latin expression meaning:) Scripture alone

@ SPECIAL REVELATION –– God's verbal and (usual) redemptive revelation of Himself to specific people at specific times; special revelation is communicated to us today through its inscripturation in the Bible

@ STANDING LAW –– policy directives applicable over time to classes of individuals (e.g., do not kill; children, obey your parents; merchants, have equal measures; magistrates, execute rapists), in contrast to particular directions for an individual (e.g., the order for Samuel to anoint David at a particular time and place) or positive commands for distinct incidents (e.g., God's order for Israel to exterminate certain Canaanite tribes at a certain point in history)

@ SUBJECTIVISM –– the view that truth or morality is a matter of the individual's personal feelings or attitudes and do not have an objective nature

@ SYMBOLIC LAW –– pedagogic laws which communicated certain truths by symbolic means, rather than (or not primarily) in explicit fashion (e.g., sacrificial laws, purity laws, separation laws)