Arian - Phase III

Question 1

Key players for Phase III

Answer 1

Athanasius and the Cappadocians

Question 2

Athanasius on Fr

Answer 2

Fatherhood belongs eternally to GOD and defines the being of God

Father very existence is the begetting of the Son

Question 3

Athanasius on Son

Answer 3

Principel that the Fr-Son relationship partially but necessarily defines the word God

Question 4

To deny the eternal existence of the Son would –?

Answer 4

be to deny the Eternal fatherhood of God

Question 5

Athanasius on HS

Answer 5

Writes against those who deny HS divinity (Pneumatomachians]

Question 6

The Spirit proceeds from –

Answer 6

the Father and is GIVEN by the Son

Question 7

HS originated – and –

Answer 7

in and from the Father, but it is through the Son that he received his mission.

Question 8

Key Athanasius point:

Answer 8

working of Trinity is inter-related: nothing can be know about the Fr apart from his relationship to the Son and HS. x3

Question 9

Who are the Cappadocians:

Answer 9

Gregory of Nyssa and Nanziazen and Basil

Question 10

Main point of Cappadocians?

Answer 10

Divine Koinia

Question 11

Koinia is

Answer 11

eternal communion of the Trinity

Question 12

Capadocians speaks of the

Answer 12

coeternal hypostases sharing the one divine ousia

Question 13

4 points of Council of Constantinople I

Answer 13

• Reviesed the Nicean creed
• removed Anti-Arian statements
• Inclusion of birth of BVM and historical ref. to Pontius Pilate to emphasize the veracity of his Humanity
• Developed HS statement: co-eternal and coequalness iwht Fr and Son