Tag
wisdom
11 entries tagged wisdom · 11 terms.
Dictionary
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.
Diakonia
Greek for service or ministry; in the New Testament the same word covers both practical hands-on service (such as serving tables) and the ministry of the word, with the difference between the two left to spiritual discernment rather than to status.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paraclete
Greek paraklētos, 'one called alongside,' the Johannine title for the Holy Spirit promised by Christ as advocate, comforter, helper, and indwelling Spirit of truth.
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.
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.'
Sophrosune
Greek for sound-mindedness, temperance, and self-restraint; the cardinal virtue that names the discipline of knowing what is enough and stopping there.
Vainglory
The classical-Christian vice of empty glory, the love of being recognized as great, distinguished from pride, which loves the superiority itself.