northern area of Galilee, is in one sense a Jew (that is, an Israelite) but in
another sense not, because he does not come from Judea, the region around
Jerusalem. This is important for understanding why the Gospel of John
often contrasts Jesus with “the Jews,” meaning the Judean establishment
in Jerusalem.
justi¿ cation: The doctrine about how God makes human beings just or
righteous. (See righteousness, sancti¿ cation and sola ¿ de.)
Kerygma: Greek for “proclamation,” based on the Greek word for “herald,”
someone who proclaims of¿ cial news, for example , of the king. The verb
formed from this noun can be translated “proclaim,” but is usually translated
“preach” when it appears in the New Testament. Biblical scholars often use
this New Testament term to emphasize that early Christian preaching was
understood to be the proclamation of the kingdom of God and Jesus, the
Messiah, as its king.
Keswick: Named after annual meetings held in Keswick, England, beginning
in 1875, it was a British American theological movement inÀ uential to later
Fundamentalists and evangelicals, incorporating themes from the Holiness
movement in a non perfectionist (that is, non Methodist) theology, typically
including such teachings as: the importance of being ¿ lled with the Holy
Spirit as an enduement of power for service, continually yielding to the
inÀ uence of the Spirit so as to obtain ongoing victory over sin, and the motto
“let go and let God.”
Landmarkism: A radical separatist and primitivist movement among
Southern Baptists beginning in the 1850s, taking as its watchword a biblical
admonition not to remove old landmarks of the faith. The Landmarkists
rejected alien immersion, insisted on closed communion, rejected missionary
societies, and promoted a successionist history of Baptist faith and practice.
lex orandi, lex credendi: Latin for “The law of praying [is the] law of
believing,” the phrase is a label for a form of theological argument used, for
example, by Augustine in his doctrine of grace, in which what we pray for
informs us of what we should believe about the help God can give us.