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-____) 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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