Posted on 06/21/2005 7:25:41 AM PDT by sionnsar
Trini-tini-tarianism – Belief in a miniscule but three-personed God.
Exebegesis – Textual interpretation that results in scaring the pants off you.
Septuasquint – Vision deficit resulting from intense study of small-print version of the Septuagint.
Codex Sinusitis – Historically important New Testament manuscript that makes you sneeze.
Hypocrypha – extra-canonical documents that pretend to be part of the apocrypha but aren’t.
Apocalips – The intensely pursed expression of readers of Left Behind books.
Tell-e-all-ogy – The theological justification for sleazy unauthorized biographies.
Penetetouche´ – A crushing rejoinder to arguments that Moses did not write the Penteteuch.
More-pheology Theology – The study of the slippery changes of the prosperity doctrine.
Trylemma – The crisis of conscience experienced by agnostics who try to respond to C.S. Lewis’ “Lord, liar or lunatic” argument.
Eh-scatology – Ho-hum exposition of the end times.
Decalogue – A dialogue between ten people. Often unsuccessfully attempted in Episcopal and Presbyterian communities. (Not related to the Ten Commandments, unless to debunk them.)
Christodgily – Dry, academic discussion of the various manifestations of Christ.
Form Criticism – What liberal theologians engage in when they go on Spring Break.
Intarnation – Ontological epithet often inserted into the sentence “What…are you doing?”
Propitchiation – A testimony of faith given by professional baseball players.
Par-wooz-sia – State of mental fuzziness induced by overlong fasting while reading the book of Revelation.
Par-ooz-sia – A divine appearance bringing about the end of the world in a slow, icky way.
Par-oops-sia – Heresy propounded by some writers who forgot where to look for the book of the Revelation.
KerygMama – A dynamic woman preacher (see also: Franklin, Aretha).
Kantikle of Kanticles – Seldom-sung love song based on Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
Synaptic Gospels – Fast paced cyber-version of the Gospels edited by Keanu Reeves and the cast of The Matrix. Features amazing special effects, including the Apostle Paul evangelizing faster than humanly possible.
Dyslexic Gospels – Version that only makes sense read backwards.
Pteredactor – A theological dinosaur known for biting large holes in the text.
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You should have saved it for Friday. Great find. I'm going to give it to my Pastor for the Sunday Worship Folder.
Hypocrypha – extra-canonical documents that pretend to be part of the apocrypha but aren’t
-That was the best one.
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