Tag
mindset
24 entries tagged mindset · 24 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.
Bachan
Bachan is the Hebrew verb meaning to test, assay, or prove something by trial, as metal is proved in the refiner's fire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kairos
The Greek word for the right or opportune moment, distinct from chronos, the sequential time a calendar tracks.
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.
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.
Philarguria
The Greek New Testament word translated 'love of money,' naming a disordered affection that bends a person's center of gravity toward accumulation.
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.