Tag
mindset
43 entries tagged mindset · 43 terms.
Dictionary
Akeraios
A Greek word meaning unmixed, undivided, or without guile, used in Scripture for an innocence that is whole rather than naive, the quality translated 'harmless' in Matthew 10:16.
Anachoresis
Greek for 'withdrawal' or 'retreat'; the disciplined practice of stepping back from constant availability so that judgment, prayer, and self-recovery have room to happen.
Anamnesis
From the Greek anamnesis, the calling-to-mind that is also a making-present; covenantal remembrance, distinct from mere recall, as in 'this do in remembrance of me.'
Anavah
The Hebrew word for humility, understood as a clear-eyed assessment of one's standing and a posture of receptive yielding, not self-erasure.
Avodah
The Hebrew word that holds work, service, and worship in a single term, naming labor as vocation rather than mere output.
Babel
The biblical account of a unified human civilization building a tower to heaven and the divine dispersal that followed (Genesis 11:1-9), naming the recurring pattern of collective ambition that outpaces the question of whether the ambition is right.
Bachan
Bachan is the Hebrew verb meaning to test, assay, or prove something by trial, as metal is proved in the refiner's fire.
Binah
The Hebrew word for understanding, the faculty of distinguishing between things and grasping what they are for, held in the tradition as distinct from raw knowledge or accumulated information.
Chresis
The Stoic principle of the 'proper use' of what is given: the first and foundational discipline of philosophy, governing how one employs circumstances, tools, and capacity wisely rather than merely efficiently.
Circumspection
The practical wisdom of looking carefully around oneself before acting, weighing the ground, the moment, and the consequences of the next step.
Counsel
The biblical and classical practice of seeking the considered judgment of those who know what the ruler or operator does not, especially before consequential action.
Covetousness
The inward posture of perpetually reaching for the next holding or advantage, which the Hebrew prophetic tradition treats as the disordered root of structural consolidation rather than a private moral failing.
Dokimazo
The discipline of testing something to prove whether it is genuine before trusting it, from the Greek word for assaying metal and coins.
Elenchus
The Socratic discipline of testing a claim by cross-examination until it either survives or breaks, the ancient root of what an AI loop calls its verify step.
Emunah
The Hebrew concept of steadiness, firmness, and faithfulness under load, the reliability that holds a thing in place over time.
Enframing
The condition, described by philosopher Martin Heidegger, in which modern technology causes us to perceive everything, including human beings, as a resource to be ordered, stored, and dispatched on demand.
Ga'avah
Ga'avah is the Hebrew word for pride: the swelling loftiness and self-exaltation that lifts a person or nation up until it believes nothing can bring it down.
Gregoresis
The Greek word for watchfulness or vigilance, used in the Gospels to name the posture of a servant who stays alert while the master is away.
Hesychia
Greek for stillness or quiet of soul: the trained interior calm that lets a person work from rest rather than striving, unmoved by the pull to measure up.
Hireling
The biblical figure of a paid laborer who guards a flock he does not own, contrasted in John 10 with the shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep; the type of every worker whose stake in the work ends when the wages stop.
Imago Dei
Latin for 'image of God': the theological doctrine that every human being bears the image of their Creator, grounding human dignity in origin rather than utility or achievement.
Kairos
The Greek word for the right or opportune moment, distinct from chronos, the sequential time a calendar tracks.
Klesis
The Greek New Testament word for calling, naming the summons issued by a higher authority that gives a person their vocation and identity prior to any later employer or institutional role.
Magnanimity
The classical and Christian virtue of being great-souled, of pursuing greatness in a way that is rightly ordered toward the good rather than toward appetite or display.
Mammon
The name Jesus gives to wealth as a rival lord, a system of valuation that competes with the one He claims. The word names not money itself but the posture of treating money as the final measure of worth.
Menuchah
The Hebrew word for the deep, given rest that is the gift of God, distinct from mere cessation of activity.
Mimesis
The imitation of another's desires, strategies, or behaviors, often unconscious, in which rivals converge on identical goals precisely because each is watching and responding to the other rather than reasoning from independent first principles.
Mishmar
A Hebrew noun meaning the post, station, or watch where a guardian stands; in scripture it names both the discipline of keeping watch and the place from which the watch is kept.
Mlachah
Hebrew term for the shaped, creative labor that gives work its identity, the kind of work the Sabbath commandment names as ceasing on the seventh day.
Nepsis
Greek for watchfulness or sobriety of spirit: the disciplined inner attention that notices when the heart is being pulled and refuses to follow without examination.
Oshek (עֹשֶׁק)
The Hebrew word for oppression by defrauding: withholding what is owed to a worker, taking the fruit of another's labor without paying the wage due.
Paroikia
The biblical and early-Christian word for sojourning, the posture of living as a resident-alien whose citizenship belongs elsewhere, drawn from a Greek verb meaning to dwell beside someone else's house.
Philarguria
The Greek New Testament word translated 'love of money,' naming a disordered affection that bends a person's center of gravity toward accumulation.
Prautes
The Greek New Testament virtue of meekness or gentleness: enormous strength held under complete discipline, not the absence of power but its mastery.
Prudence
The classical and biblical virtue of practical wisdom: the capacity to discern the right course of action in a particular situation, grounded in foresight and governed by right judgment rather than impulse.
Sabbath
The divinely appointed day of rest, rooted in God's own rest after creation, establishing that human worth is not measured by labor output.
Scholē
The Greek concept of leisure understood not as idleness but as time freed from necessity and given to higher pursuits; in classical philosophy, the condition that makes genuinely human activity possible.
Shamar
Hebrew verb meaning to keep, guard, watch over, and preserve with active intentional care; the word in Proverbs 4:23 translated 'keep thy heart with all diligence.'
Shaqad
Shaqad (שָׁקַד) is a Hebrew verb meaning to be wakeful, to stay alert, to keep watch over something without sleeping, carrying the sense of a vigilance that does not drop its guard through the night.
Sheqer
The Hebrew word for falsehood, deception, and vain or empty gain -- the thing that presents itself as advantage while carrying the seed of its own consequence.
Sophrosune
Greek for sound-mindedness, temperance, and self-restraint; the cardinal virtue that names the discipline of knowing what is enough and stopping there.
Sphragis
The Greek word for a seal or signet impression, used in the New Testament to describe the unseen mark of authority that grants the bearer access and identity.
Zugos
The Greek word for yoke, the wooden bar that joined two oxen at the neck, used in Scripture as a figure for the burden, allegiance, or teacher under which a life is lived.