analogical --of, composed of, expressing or based on an analogy.

cabala (kabala) -- A body of mystical teachings of rabbinical 
origin, often based on an esoteric interpretation of the Hebrew 
Scriptures; a secret doctrine resembling these teachings.

cabalistic -- Having a secret or hidden meaning; occult; of or 
relating to the cabala.  

demiurge -- A powerful creative force or personality; a deity in 
Gnosticism, Manicheeism, and other religions who creates the 
material world and is sometimes viewed as the originator of evil; a 
platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of 
chaos.  (Scott Marquardt comments:  "My interest in the demiurge 
concept as it relates to Mormonism is limited to considering  how 
LDS gods seem to be mediators between an impersonal reality and 
worlds.")

dualism -- The concept that the world is ruled by the antagonistic 
forces of good and evil; the concept that human beings have two 
basic natures, the physical and the spiritual, including the 
metaphysical dualism of the Greeks.

equivocal -- of or relating to two apparently related statements 
that are in, fact, contradictory or misleading.  

epistemic  -- Of, relating to, or involving knowledge.

epistemology  -- The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of 
knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and 
validity.

exegesis -- Critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text. 

fideism -- Reliance on faith alone rather than scientific reasoning 
or philosophy in questions of religion.  

gnosis -- Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric 
form of knowledge sought by the Gnostics.

Gnosticism -- The doctrine of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish 
and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God 
and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain 
redemption for the spiritual element in human beings and that 
distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.

gravamen -- The material or significant part of a grievance or 
complaint.  The most important of the legal charges against the 
accused.  

hagiography -- biography of saints; a worshipful or idealizing 
biography.

hamartiology -- The study of sin. 

hermetic -- Having to do with the occult sciences, especially 
alchemy; magical; (less likely in this forum): airtight, impervious.  

heuristic -- Of or relating to a usually speculative formation 
serving as a guide on the investigation or solutions of a problem; 
Of, relating to, or constituting an educational method in which 
learning takes place through discoveries that result from 
investigations made by the students; (n) a heuristic method or 
process; (heurisitcs) the study and application of heuristic methods 
and processes.  

hypostases -- The substance, essence, or underlying reality; any of 
the persons of the Trinity; the essential person of Jesus in which 
His human and divine natures of united; Something that has been 
hypostatized.  

hypostatize To ascribe material existence to.  

imago Dei -- image of God (as in the creation accounts).  

Kabbalist -- see cabala, cabalistic.

metaverse  (Neologism, meaning "the universe of all divine universes 
and all kingdoms and including the infinite intelligence pool".)   

modalism  (Sabellianism) -- a doctrine relating to the Trinity where 
all three [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] are part of an undefined 
unity, but where each member may be manifest separately from the 
others. 

modus tollens -- A form of argumentation: 
          1)   If P then Q
          2)   Not Q
          3)   Therefore, not P.

mythopoeic -- Of or relating to the making of myths; serving to 
create or engender myths, productive in making myths.  

nihilism -- An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence; 
a doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can 
be known or communicated; rejection of all distinctions on moral or 
religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories 
of morality or religious belief.  

ontic -- Relating to or possessing real existence.  
ontology -- The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of 
being.  

reify -- to make real, to give substance to. 

Sabellianism  -- a specific variety of modalism (also 

"patripassianism" referring to a necessary inference of modalism: 
that the person  who was the Father was the same one who was 
crucified.)

soteriology -- the theological doctrine of salvation as effected by 
Jesus.

syncretism -- Reconciliation or fusion of two differing systems of 
belief as of philosophy or religion, especially where success is 
partial or the result is heterogeneous.  

Tertullian  -- Carthaginian theologian who broke with the Catholic 
church and influenced Western theology.  

theosophy -- Religious philosophy  or speculation about the nature 
of  the soul based on mystical insight into the nature of God.  

traducianism -- The belief that the spirit is inherited from (or 
created by) the parents, along with the body.  

univocal -- two instances of predication that are saying identical 
things.  

Zeitgeist -- The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook 
characteristic of a period.