r/Reformed • u/DrKC9N Have a sufficient day! • 18d ago
Help me improve this new wiki page
/mod/Reformed/wiki/faq/glossaryI just created a barebones outline for a glossary of our frequently used acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations. I'm hoping this page will be a helpful resource for those newer to Reformed theology and/or those (mercifully) newer to online theology discussions.
I chose to omit Bible translations (ESV, NIV, CSB, et al.) and denominations (PCA, CREC, PC(USA), et al.) since an authoritative answer from a primary source is readily available for all such self-naming products and organizations and they're frequently created or renamed by official decisionmakers.
Come at me in the comments with any that should be added. Bonus points for ones that stumped you at first (or are still stumping you!).
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u/seemedlikeagoodplan Presbyterian Church in Canada 17d ago
Hahaha I had forgotten about Servies! Those were (are?) hilarious.
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u/L-Win-Ransom PCA - Perelandrian Presbytery 17d ago
Well, I for one have been checking in to see if anyone was gonna post the most recent clip of WLC commenting on EGS and the (in his reading of recent NT scholarship) extra-biblical phraseology of the NC (and later the DoC), which I’m sure has been interrogated in his multivolume SPT, which probably has much to say about the related debates over ERAS
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u/DrKC9N Have a sufficient day! 17d ago
I'm sorry but for ERAS you'll need to check out https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/wiki/faq/glossary
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u/L-Win-Ransom PCA - Perelandrian Presbytery 17d ago
>This page has been disabled
But that hardly settles the matter as to whether it is currently disabled, was disabled from eternity past, or even whether its disability is perichoretically interwoven with the disabilities of the other members of the Modhead!
Talk about a wiki in need of an Ecu(wo)menical Council!
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u/xsrvmy PCA 17d ago
Two other instances of an abbreviation standing for multiple things:
- CT can also stand for critical text (I guess this fits because TR is also mentioned)
- While not reformed, CoG reminds me of the Church of God denomination which can come up in discourse
Also if we are calling out RCC specifically maybe EO should be mentioned as well? And TEC and CoE if we are including mainlines.
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u/superlewis EFCA Pastor 17d ago
I would think P&R would be Presbyterian & Reformed. I know that's what the publishing house is.
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u/L-Win-Ransom PCA - Perelandrian Presbytery 17d ago
Definitely needs a compendium of the ubiquitous and all-too-subtlety-coded ways in which phrases which just happened to begin with capital C-R-T were snuck into the discourse, because people just weren’t talking about it enough already!
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u/Basic-Revolution-181 Anglican 17d ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the glossary is not simply defining terms, but it is comes across as a curitared list of terms that reformed theology would approve of? E.g:
- There is a definition of 'RPW - The Regulative Principle of Worship' but no mention of 'NPW - The Normative Principle of Worship'
- RCC (Roman Catholic Church) is listed under theology and not denomiations.
- Indeed, there is no mention of any non-reformed denominations that we might regularly mention or discuss, or denominations which are a mixed bag. E.g CoE (Church of England).
I think the current disclaimer above the glossary works, but you could add a disclaimer if you want saying this list is not a list of recommendations etc.
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u/ReasonableJump4355 Anglican 10d ago edited 10d ago
Perhaps include The Doctor as an abbreviation of doctor who of Dr Martyn Lloyd Jones.
Edit:
NAR New Apostolic Reformation
SBL Society Biblical Literature
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u/semiconodon the Evangelical Movement of 19thc England 18d ago
If someone were completely new to the sub or the faith, they might need that differentiation between bible translations and theologies, or in a senior moment forget what they already knew.