Challenge: Can you solve the puzzle using the word bank below even if you do not have the textbook?
| ACROSS | ||
| 2 | Toward what did John Wesley say every believer should be moving | |
| 6 | Community of believers | |
| 7 | What is one way of translating "soteria" (Greek) in addition to "salvation"? | |
| 8 | What God will do in the "holy city" seen by John | |
| 9 | External and visible sign of an inner and spiritual grace | |
| 12 | The mark or sign of the church that emphasizes the uninterrupted line of witnesses | |
| 13 | The process whereby we come to be what God wishes us to be | |
| 14 | A belief that the interventions of God in history can be divided into a scheme or series of seven periods | |
| 15 | Study of End Times | |
| 17 | A man who believed that the God who sent Jesus Christ was not the same one who had made this world and who had been revealed to Israel | |
| 18 | The atonement theory that may be very difficult to envision by us modern people who are used to thinking in terms of a world in which there are no more realities than those that we see | |
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | He coined the phrase "outside the church there is no salvation" | |
| 3 | Study of the church | |
| 4 | The atonement theory centered on the idea of Jesus as payment for sin which can lead to a depiction of God as austere, demanding, wrathful and vindictive | |
| 5 | For these people, Jesus was purely a divine spirit while his humanity only seemed real | |
| 10 | The man who declared that Jesus was physically human but that the Word of God occupied the place of the human mind | |
| 11 | The image of the church that reminds us of the close relationship that must exist among Christians | |
| 16 | One facet of God's nature which has to be understood in connection with His justice | |
Note: There are many more words here than you will need.
Agape | Altar | Apollinaris | Apostolic | Aquinas | Arminianism | Arianism | Army | Baptism | Body | Bride | Calvin | Church | Cleansing | Clement | Communion | Community | Conqueror | Creator | Cyprian | Deliverance | Dispensationalism | Docetism | Doctrine | Ecclesia | Edwards | Ecclesiology | Eschatology | Faith | Fellowship | Freedom | Ignatius | Lordship | Love | Luther | Marcion | Maturity | Perfection | Power | Purification | Redemption | Ransom | Ritual | Rule | Sacrament | Salvation | Satisfaction | Savior | Scapegoat | Soteriology | Substitutionary | Surrender | Tabernacle | Temple | Wesley | Wrath
-- Howard Culbertson,
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