Glossary
From Apocrypals Apocrypha
The following is a glossary of terms that commonly appear on the show.
Canonicity
Canonicity deals with what books are considered canon for various religions, churches, or denominations. For instance a book such as Judith is considered canon in the Catholic church, but not most protestant churchse, which would make it deuterocanonical, while a book such as The Acts of Peter and Paul is not apocryphal, as no one considers it canonical.
- Apocrypha
- Content that is not part of the canon for any common church
- Deuterocanon
- Content that is canon for some churches but not all (e.g: Judith, which is canon in the Catholic church, but not protestant churches)
- Pseudepigrapha
- Falsely-attributed texts (e.g: texts attributed to Paul but which were likely not actually written by him)
Theology
Theology is the study of religion, and is often broken up into various sub-fields.
- Eschatology
- What will happen at the end of the world
- Soteriology
- What all goes into being saved
Show Lingo
With their vast knowledge of comics and pop culture, the Sons of Thunder™ have some very particular lingo.
- Approximate Week
- The holiest (approximate) week of the Apocrypals year from August 12th to August 20th.
- Biblically Accurate Angels
- An attack on Benito's sanity covered in wings and wheels and eyes.
- Blessed Voltrons
- A term to help keep that clean tag when talking about "young women".
- HCSB
- The Holman Christian Standard Bible is the translation used on the show for the books of the (Protestant) Bible.
- Roy Thomas
- Long-time comics writer and editor who created some of the most popular Marvel characters.
- Scholar and Clown
- An early review described the hosts as a scholar and a clown, but we literally have no way of knowing who is which.
- TERF of Babylon
- "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."
- Theophiloi
- The podcast audience; plural of Theophilus