Glossary

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".

Caesar-real and Robin Hood-real

Alternate terminology to indicate the historicity or fictionality of biblical figures to avoid calling them "fake" when they are just as real to people as Superman and Santa are to the hosts.

HCSB

The Holman Christian Standard Bible is the translation used on the show for the books of the (Protestant) Bible.

Johnny Bapto, Johnny Patmo and Johnny 'Vango

John the Baptist, John of Patmo and John the Evangelist.

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