THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
BIOGRAPHY AND GLOSSARY

Gaebelein, Arno Clemens:

(1861-1945) US Methodist; Bible teacher; conference speaker; developed dispensationalist fundamentalist movement; worked on prophecy and Israel; edited Our Hope,wrote 1. The Annotated Bible; 2. Revelation, an Analysis and Exposition; and 3. Current Events in the Light of the Bible.

Galileo:

(1564-1641)

Galloway, Charles B.:

(1849-1909) US Methodist preacher.

GAMES:

See Language games

Garnett, Arthur Campbell:

(1894-1970) professor in Wisconsin; Realist metaphysics; wrote 1. Contemporary Thought and the Return to Religion and 2. A Realistic Philosophy of Religion.

Garvie, Alfred Ernest:

(1861-1945) Congregational Church of Scotland pastor; wrote The Christian Preacher.

Gasset, Jose Ortega y:

(1883-1955) professor at Madrid; intellect is to be subordinate to life; wrote 1. Man and Crisis and 2. The Modern Theme.

Geikie, John Cunningham:

(1824-1906) British Presbyterian became Anglican; author.

Geiler, John:

(1445-1510) German Roman Catholic mystic.

GENERALIZATION:

*

GENERALIZATIONS:

* See Descriptive statements, generalizations, etc.

GENETIC:

See Genetic theory of knowledge

GENETIC THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE:

Dewey's theory that knowledge is a collection of experiences, (i.e., the accumulation of instrumental ideas).

Gerhard, Johann:

(1582-1637) Lutheran theologian; major work was a system of dogmatics: Loci Theologici.

Gerson, Jean Charlier de:

(1363-1429) French Roman Catholic who tried to reform University of Notre Dame.

GESTALT:

See Gestalt psychology

GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY:

A holistic form of structural psychology which opposes all atomistic approaches to mind and which studies behavior in terms of the Gestalt, the structure of the whole.

GHOST:

See Ghost in the machine

GHOST IN THE MACHINE:

* (Ryle)

Gil, Juan:

(d 1556) Spanish Roman Catholic converted to Reformed doctrine but condemned by Inquisition as a "Lutheran."

Gilkey, Langdon Brown:

(1919-2004) theologian at University of Chicago; wrote 1. Shantung Compound and 2. Naming the Whirlwind.

Gill, John:

(1697-1771) British Baptist pastor for 50 years in one church; Calvinist; wrote A Body of Divinity.

Gillespie, George:

(1613-1648) Scottish Presbyterian preacher. Wrote Aaron's Rod Blossoming.

Gilpin, Bernard:

(1517-1583) British Anglican preacher; dealt with social and educational issues.

Gladden, Washington:

(1836-1918) Congregational pastor in Ohio; popularized liberal theology and social gospel; wrote the hymn "O Master Let Me Walk With Thee"; also wrote 1. Burning Questions and 2. The Christian Pastor.

GNOSTICISM:

*

God:

* See God-is-dead thought; Word of God; Moral argument for God; Ontological argument for God; and Teleological argument for God

Godfrey, W. Robert: Prof. of Church History at Wstminster Th. Sem. (Calif.); pastor in Christian Reformed Church; helped to write Discord, Dialogue, and Concord: Studies in the Lutheran Reformation's Formula of Concord and John Calvin, His Influence in the Western World.

GOD-IS-DEAD:

See God-is-dead thought

GOD-IS-DEAD THOUGHT:

*

Gogarten, Friedrich:

(1887-1968) German theologian who moved from liberalism to neo-orthodoxy and defence of Bultmann's demythologization; wrote Demythologizing and History.

Goheen, Robert F:

President of Princeton from 1957-72.

GOLDEN:

See Golden rule

GOLDEN RULE:

*

Gomarus, Franciscus:

(1563-1641) Dutch Calvinist; against Arminius; unable to convince Synod of Dort to adopt supralapsarianism.

GOOD:

See Good reasons; Good will; Idea of the Good; Indefinable good; and Reasons, good

GOOD REASON:

See Reasons, good

GOOD REASONS:

* (ethics)

GOOD REASONS THEORIES:

A non-cognitivist ethics

GOOD WILL:

* (Kant)

Goodman, Christopher:

(1520-1603) British Reformer.

Goodwin, Thomas:

(1600-1680) British Congregational Puritan; became a Separatist through influence of John Cotton; moved to Holland after harassment by Archbishop Laud; advisor to Oliver Cromwell; wrote a collection of sermons; a favorite of Alexander Whyte.

Gordon, Adoniram Judson:

(1836-1895) US Baptist preacher; founded Gordon College.

Gordon, Charles William:

(1860-1937) Canadian Presbyterian international pastor.

Gordon, George Angier:

(1853-1929) Scottish Congregational liberal pastor in Boston for over 40 years.

Gore, Charles:

(1853-1932) Anglican liberal bishop.

GOSPELS:

See Synoptic gospels

Gossip, Arthur John:

(1873-1954) Presbyterian topical preacher.

Gottschalk:

(c 805-869) theologian who first taught double predestination.

GRACE:

See Cheap grace

Graham, William (Billy):

(1918-____) US Baptist, evangelist. Wrote Angels: God's Secret Agents and How to be Born Again.

GRAVITATION:

See Gravitation, law

GRAVITATION, LAW:

* (Newton)

Gray, Andrew:

(1633-1656) pastor; converted by witness of a beggar. Works contained in The Works of Andrew Gray.

Gray, James Martin:

(1851-1935) US Reformed Episcopal; President of Moody Bible Institute.

Grebel, Conrad:

(c 1498-1526) Founder of Swiss Anabaptist and first Free Church congregation.

Green:

(1836-1882)

Green, Ashbel:

President of Princeton from 1812-22

Greer, David H.:

(1844-1919) US Episcopal pastor.

Gregory I (the Great):

(c540-604) Pope who began medieval period of church; known for Gregorian Chant; first to teach doctrine of Purgatory; wrote Rules for Pastors.

Gregory of Nazianzus:

(c330-389) Cappadocian theologian whose formula of Trinity became orthodox view.

Gregory of Nyssa:

(c 330-395) Cappadocian theologian whose formula of Trinity became orthodox view.

Gregory of Rimini:

(____-1358) Italian philosopher became an Augustinian monk; emphasized grace of God in salvation.

Grindal, Edmund:

(1519-1583) Anglican preacher.

Groot, Gerard:

(1340-1384) Dutch Roman Catholic who founded Brethren of the Common Life.

Grotius, Hugo:

(1583-1645) Dutch jurist and statesman; government theory of atonement; the founder of international law.

GROUP-MIND:

See Group-mind theory

GROUP-MIND THEORY:

*

GROWTH:

See Church growth movement

Grudem, Wayne A.:

Prof. of NT at TEDS; wrote The Gift of Prophecy in I Corinthians

Gunsaulus, Frank Wakely:

(1856-1921) Chicago preacher.

Guthrie, James:

(1612-1661) Scottish Presbyterian martyred.

Guthrie, Thomas:

(1803-1873) Free Church of Scotland preacher.

Guthrie, William:

(1620-1665) Scottish Covenanter wrote The Christian's Great Interest.

Gutierrez, Gustavo:

(1928-____) Latin American Roman Catholic theologian; liberation theology.

Guyon, Madame:

(1648-1717) French mystic; strive for spiritual perfection through disinterested love of God and complete obedience to Him.

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