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Adoption (Υἱοθεσία / Adoptio)

Adoption (Υἱοθεσία / Adoptio) One-Line Definition Adoption is God’s act of naming and receiving persons into filial belonging in Christ, granting stable identit

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Apostolicity (Ἀποστολικότης / Apostolicitas)

Apostolicity (Ἀποστολικότης / Apostolicitas) One-Line Definition Apostolicity is the Church’s participation in Christ’s sending — a living transmission that pre

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Ascesis (ἄσκησις / Ascetic Practice)

Ascesis (ἄσκησις / Ascetic Practice) One-Line Definition Ascesis is gentle, consented training in Christ that removes distortions and stabilises truthful love u

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Atonement (Ἱλασμός / Ἀποκατάστασις / Expiatio–Reconciliatio)

Atonement (Ἱλασμός / Ἀποκατάστασις / Expiatio–Reconciliatio) One-Line Definition Atonement is the cruciform repair of distorted reality in which Christ absorbs

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Authority (Ἐξουσία / Auctoritas)

Authority (Ἐξουσία / Auctoritas) One-Line Definition Authority is cruciform, consent-honouring responsibility to guard, serve, and stabilise communal coherence

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Baptism (Βάπτισμα / Baptismus)

Baptism (Βάπτισμα / Baptismus) One-Line Definition Baptism is the public, embodied initiation of a person into the Grace field and the healed convergence path i

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Celibacy (Ἀγαμία / Caelibatus)

Celibacy (Ἀγαμία / Caelibatus) One-Line Definition Celibacy is a vocational configuration subordinate to Vocation : a freely chosen shaping of relational availa

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Church / Ekklesia (Ἐκκλησία / Ecclesia)

Church / Ekklesia (Ἐκκλησία / Ecclesia) One-Line Definition Church is the grace-generated, Christ-centred repair ecology: a gathered field where wounded lives a

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Confession (Ἐξομολόγησις / confessio)

Confession (Ἐξομολόγησις / confessio) One-Line Definition Confession is consented, truthful naming of sin and harm before God (and, when safe and appropriate, a

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Conscience (Συνείδησις / Conscientia)

Conscience (Συνείδησις / Conscientia) One-Line Definition Conscience is the heart’s grace-held capacity to hear truth in love, detect distortion without shame,

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Conversion (Μεταστροφή / Conversio)

Conversion (Μεταστροφή / Conversio) One-Line Definition Conversion is the grace-opened re-orientation of the whole person toward Christ that initiates or renews

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Death (Θάνατος / Mors)

Death (Θάνατος / Mors) One-Line Definition Death is the final creaturely boundary where agency ends and the person is received into God’s mercy, hope, and peace

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Depravity (Φθορά / Depravatio)

Depravity (Φθορά / Depravatio) One-Line Definition Depravity is inherited, systemic coherence distortion under sin and death-pressure that bends human systems a

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Discernment (Διάκρισις / Diakrisis)

Discernment (Διάκρισις / Diakrisis) One-Line Definition Discernment (diakrisis) is merciful truth-separation in love that clarifies what heals from what distort

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Election (Ἐκλογή / Electio)

Election (Ἐκλογή / Electio) One-Line Definition Election is God’s choosing of persons and communities for participatory vocation in Christ — chosen to carry gra

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Eucharist (Εὐχαριστία / Eucharistia)

Eucharist (Εὐχαριστία / Eucharistia) One-Line Definition Eucharist is the sacramental participation in Christ’s self-giving life that nourishes, stabilises, and

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Faith (Πίστις / Fides)

Faith (Πίστις / Fides) One-Line Definition Faith is trustful participation in and consented reliance upon God’s faithful love — a lived “yes” that receives grac

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Fasting (Νηστεία / Ieiunium)

Fasting (Νηστεία / Ieiunium) One-Line Definition Fasting is a gentle, time-bounded relinquishing of food (or other comforts) to re-open attention, desire, and d

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Forgiveness (Ἄφεσις / Remissio)

Forgiveness (Ἄφεσις / Remissio) One-Line Definition Forgiveness is the grace-governed release of retaliatory binding and relational debt that opens space for tr

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Glorification (Δόξα / Glorificatio)

Glorification (Δόξα / Glorificatio) One-Line Definition Glorification is the final, grace-completed convergence of persons and creation into full participation

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Grace (Χάρις / Gratia)

Grace (Χάρις / Gratia) One-Line Definition Grace is God’s freely given gift of love and belonging that comes before any effort, enables all healing, and holds a

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Hamartia (Ἁμαρτία / Sin)

Hamartia (Ἁμαρτία / Sin) One-Line Definition Hamartia is coherence distortion and attractor-basin deformation that bends desire and attention away from truthful

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Heaven (Οὐρανός / Caelum)

Heaven (Οὐρανός / Caelum) One-Line Definition Heaven is the healed, stable communion-habitat of resurrected life: the completed repair ecology where God-with-us

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Hell (Γέεννα / Infernus)

Hell (Γέεννα / Infernus) One-Line Definition Hell is the tragic, self-sealing condition of resisted communion: the terminal collapse of relational coherence whe

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Hesychia (ἡσυχία / Stillness)

Hesychia (ἡσυχία / Stillness) One-Line Definition Hesychia is prayerful stillness that quiets inner noise so the heart can remain truthfully present to God. For

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Hope (Ἐλπίς / Spes)

Hope (Ἐλπίς / Spes) One-Line Definition Hope is the future-anchoring coherence stabiliser that keeps formation, repentance, and endurance from collapsing into d

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Icon (Εἰκών / Icona)

Icon (Εἰκών / Icona) One-Line Definition Icon is a sanctified, consent-honouring visual and material witness that mediates presence, memory, and orientation tow

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Incarnation (Ἐνανθρώπησις / Incarnatio)

Incarnation (Ἐνανθρώπησις / Incarnatio) One-Line Definition Incarnation is God’s self-giving entry into human wounded reality, fully assuming embodied limitatio

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Judgement (Κρίσις / Iudicium)

Judgement (Κρίσις / Iudicium) One-Line Definition Judgement (krisis) is God’s truthful, merciful discernment that separates life-giving coherence from distortio

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Justice (Δικαιοσύνη / Iustitia)

Justice (Δικαιοσύνη / Iustitia) One-Line Definition Justice is truthful, mercy-governed repair that protects the vulnerable, names harm, and restores right orde

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Justification (Δικαίωσις / Justificatio)

Justification (Δικαίωσις / Justificatio) One-Line Definition Justification is God’s gift of belonging that anchors identity in grace before performance, stabili

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Kenosis (Κένωσις / Exinanitio)

Kenosis (Κένωσις / Exinanitio) One-Line Definition Kenosis is the voluntary, grace-secured self-lowering of God’s love that makes healing space for reconciliati

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Koinonia (Κοινωνία / Communion–Fellowship)

Koinonia (Κοινωνία / Communion–Fellowship) One-Line Definition Koinonia is consented mutual coupling in Christ that shares grace, bears burdens together, and st

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Lament (Θρῆνος / Lamentatio)

Lament (Θρῆνος / Lamentatio) One-Line Definition Lament is truthful, grace-held grief turned toward God that names loss and injustice without bypass, opening sp

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Liturgy (Λειτουργία / Leitourgia)

Liturgy (Λειτουργία / Leitourgia) One-Line Definition Liturgy is the shared, time-structured prayerful work of the Church that stabilises communal coherence and

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Love (Ἀγάπη / caritas)

Love (Ἀγάπη / caritas) One-Line Definition Agape is self-giving, truthful, and non-coercive love that participates in the life of God and generates coherence in

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Marriage (Γάμος / Matrimonium)

Marriage (Γάμος / Matrimonium) One-Line Definition Marriage is a vocational configuration subordinate to Vocation : a sacramental, public, and mutual covenant b

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Mercy (Ἔλεος / Misericordia)

Mercy (Ἔλεος / Misericordia) One-Line Definition Mercy is God’s active, compassionate movement toward wounded creation that protects the vulnerable, confronts h

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Metanoia (Μετάνοια / Repentance–Turning of the Mind)

Metanoia (Μετάνοια / Repentance–Turning of the Mind) One-Line Definition Metanoia is a grace-enabled turning of the mind and heart that repairs inner terrain an

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Mortal Sin (Ἁμαρτία πρὸς θάνατον / Peccatum mortale)

Mortal Sin (Ἁμαρτία πρὸς θάνατον / Peccatum mortale) One-Line Definition Mortal sin is a communion-shutdown distortion in which receptivity to grace, prayer, an

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Nepsis (Νήψις / Watchful Sobriety)

Nepsis (Νήψις / Watchful Sobriety) One-Line Definition Nepsis is gentle, consented watchfulness that guards attention, desire, and discernment so the heart stay

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New Creation (Καινὴ Κτίσις / Nova Creatio)

New Creation (Καινὴ Κτίσις / Nova Creatio) One-Line Definition New Creation is God’s final act of restoration: creation healed, fulfilled, and transfigured into

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Obedience (Ὑπακοή / Obedientia)

Obedience (Ὑπακοή / Obedientia) One-Line Definition Obedience is consented, truth-responsive alignment to Christ that protects conscience and agency while enact

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Original Sin (Προπατορικὴ Ἁμαρτία / Peccatum Originale)

Original Sin (Προπατορικὴ Ἁμαρτία / Peccatum Originale) One-Line Definition Original Sin is the inherited deformation of the human coherence landscape under dea

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Peace (Εἰρήνη / Pax)

Peace (Εἰρήνη / Pax) One-Line Definition Peace is the baseline healed coherence of the human system: a stable, cruciform equilibrium of nervous-system settling,

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Prayer (προσευχή / oratio)

Prayer (προσευχή / oratio) One-Line Definition Prayer is conscious, consenting presence with God that iteratively aligns the human person with divine life. Form

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Predestination (Προορισμός / Praedestinatio)

Predestination (Προορισμός / Praedestinatio) One-Line Definition Predestination is God’s prior, merciful orientation of creation toward healed communion in Chri

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Priesthood (Ἱερωσύνη / Sacerdotium)

Priesthood (Ἱερωσύνη / Sacerdotium) One-Line Definition Priesthood is a delegated, mercy-bearing repair office that mediates reconciliation, safeguards sacramen

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Propitiation (Ἱλασμός / Propitiatio)

Propitiation (Ἱλασμός / Propitiatio) One-Line Definition Propitiation is the relational-field healing effect of the Cross that clears fear, shame, and accusatio

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Regeneration (παλιγγενεσία / Regeneratio)

Regeneration (παλιγγενεσία / Regeneratio) One-Line Definition Regeneration is grace-initiated, consented interior re-animation in which new life arises within t

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Resurrection (Ἀνάστασις / Resurrectio)

Resurrection (Ἀνάστασις / Resurrectio) One-Line Definition Resurrection is God’s final act of repair: the re-creation of embodied personhood and the healing of

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Sacrifice (Θυσία / Sacrificium)

Sacrifice (Θυσία / Sacrificium) One-Line Definition Sacrifice is freely offered self-giving love that, in Christ, restores communion and spreads coherent life w

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Sanctification (Ἁγιασμός / Sanctificatio)

Sanctification (Ἁγιασμός / Sanctificatio) One-Line Definition Sanctification is grace-led, iterative convergence toward the Christ-pattern that stabilises heale

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Scripture (Γραφή / Scriptura)

Scripture (Γραφή / Scriptura) One-Line Definition Scripture is the canonical, Spirit-breathed public grammar of the Logos that stabilises communal truth, memory

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Sophia (Σοφία / Sapientia)

Sophia (Σοφία / Sapientia) One-Line Definition Sophia is divine Wisdom as the living coherence of God’s own life ( Divine Sophia ) and the creaturely form of th

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Spiritual Direction (Καθοδήγησις ψυχῆς / Directio spiritualis)

Spiritual Direction (Καθοδήγησις ψυχῆς / Directio spiritualis) One-Line Definition Spiritual direction is companioned discernment in grace that walks alongside

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Suffering (Πάθος / Passio)

Suffering (Πάθος / Passio) One-Line Definition Suffering is the wound-field in which God’s mercy protects, accompanies, and restores the person under pressure —

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Theosis (Θέωσις / Deificatio)

Theosis (Θέωσις / Deificatio) One-Line Definition Theosis is grace-given participation in the life of God through Christ, deepening healed resonance with the Lo

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Tradition (Παράδοσις / Traditio)

Tradition (Παράδοσις / Traditio) One-Line Definition Tradition is the living, communal transmission of life in Christ through time — a memory-bearing coherence

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Truth (Ἀλήθεια / Veritas)

Truth (Ἀλήθεια / Veritas) One-Line Definition Truth (Aletheia) is the reality-alignment field and distortion-detection grammar that names what is, protects cons

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Vigil (Ἀγρυπνία / Vigilia)

Vigil (Ἀγρυπνία / Vigilia) One-Line Definition Vigil is a temporal coherence-stabilisation practice of faithful waiting and prayerful presence under delay, dark

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Virtue (Ἀρετή / Virtus)

Virtue (Ἀρετή / Virtus) One-Line Definition Virtue is grace-formed, healed stability that makes truthful love freely available under pressure. Formal Operator V

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Vocation (Κλῆσις / Vocatio)

Vocation (Κλῆσις / Vocatio) One-Line Definition Vocation is God’s gentle, grace-led placing of a person into a concrete, consented path of belonging and service

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Waiting (Ὑπομονή / Patientia)

Waiting (Ὑπομονή / Patientia) One-Line Definition Waiting is grace-held patient endurance that resists urgency and retaliation while keeping truth, safety, and