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Christian Tradition Midterm Flashcards

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*What does liturgy do?

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It draws one into and roots one into a particular narrative

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*Facts about Bonhoeffer

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Lutheran pastor, executed by Nazis, lived in NY

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*When was Peter able to see the feast?

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When he joined the liturgy of Neverland

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*The main purpose of How Not To Be Secular

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wanting the reader to know the “feel” of the secular age/illuminating the secular age

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*In Hook, why could Maggie remember her home?

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She practiced the liturgy of home by singing songs her mother sang to her

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*2 ways to engage in a secular age

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Take

Spin

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*The secular age is cross-_______

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pressured

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*Characteristic of technology in the late modern era

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It suggests we can be free by mastering our circumstances

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*Maxim used to illustrate the secular age

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“I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.”

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*T/F Costly grace is grace we bestow upon ourselves

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F; cheap grace

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*Bonhoeffer’s thought on Discipleship

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it is not limited to what you can comprehend-it must transcend the deep waters beyond your own comprehension

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*According to Smith, which secular age (#) are we living in?

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Secular 3

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*T/F Technology suggests that we don’t have to be claimed by anything

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T

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*Primary characteristic of the secular age

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the presence of competing narratives

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*Work of the people, what people do

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Liturgy

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*“When Christ calls a man…”

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“…He bids him come and die”

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*The subtle process by which our world and hence the realm of significance is enclosed within the material universe and the natural world

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Immanentization

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*T/F Secular people don’t want to feel transcendence

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F, secular people still want the feeling of transcendence (ex. I don’t know God, but I miss him)

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*Main distinction in Bonhoeffer

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Cheap grace vs. costly grace

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*Technology causes us to lose our ability to

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celebrate

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*According to Bon, Christ is the ____ between disciples and their immediate realities

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Mediator

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*Theory of Inspiration that says the HS guided the Biblical writers, but didn’t tell them what to write word-for-word

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Verbal Theory of Inspiration

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*Said that the material world was evil so Jesus couldn’t have had a material body

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Gnosticism

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T/F The fullness of the Christian encounter with God has been encapsulated in doctrine

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F

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*What is revelation in the Christian Tradition

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a self-revelation of God’s personal prescence

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*Doctrine is the ______ of the Christian faith

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Grammar

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27
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*What is heresy

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a good-faith attempt to describe an encounter with God

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*T/F Christian Scripture faithfully and authoritatively bears witness to what God has done in Jesus

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*What section of the Bible does Bon use to guide his description of the life of a disciple?

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The Sermon on the Mount

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*“As Christianity spread, the church became more secularized. The world was Christianized, and grace was its common property. It was to be had at _______.”

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a low cost

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*T/F Scripture is General Revelation

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F, Scripture is Special Revelation

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*Person/belief that denied the that the OT should be included in the canon

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Marcion/Marcionism

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*Why must knowledge of God in the CT include practices

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God has known us by becoming flesh in Jesus and calling us to know by following Him

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34
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*Theology begins with ________________

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God’s revelatory word spoken to us

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35
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*Provides knowledge about God based on our observations of the world around us

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General Revelation

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*Christian doctrine is like (ex. sunrise on the mountain)

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An attempt at describing something amazing.

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T/F Secularity is anti-religion

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F, it’s more of just 2 conflicting stories wherein particularity is no longer important

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38
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How is the modern age considered “haunted?”

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it may not believe in God, but there are vestiges of faith everywhere (people want the feeling of transcendence, but don’t want God to affect their lives)

39
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The ancient understanding of secularity; earthly things, not the divine

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Secular1 (ex. 2 types of careers, secular professions vs. religious ones)

40
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“religiously neutral space” with the assumption that you can divide life and leave religion

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Secular2 (ex. public schools)

41
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Belief that God is 1 among many gods and whatever you want to believe is okay

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Secular3 (leads to the nova effect)

42
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2 realms of Greek cosmology (the divided line)

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Eternal (where things are good and beautiful)
Temporal (subject to change)

Plato said that the temporal is a reflection of the eternal, but obviously the real thing (not the reflection) is way better

43
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What is an example of greek cosmology influences our wold?

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Biblical writers didn’t assume that we have an eternal soul (influenced by greek cosmology)

44
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T/F Immamenitization collapses the eternal world into the temporal

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T; also caused by disenchantment

45
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Disenchanted vs. enchanted world

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Enchanted: everything is charged with power, meaning comes from “out there”, things can do stuff
Disenchanted: world emptied of power, meaning comes from inside, “I do stuff and things just are”

46
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excarnation

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depersonalizing God; we do this and therefore make God a condiment (everything becomes reduced to sameness)

47
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incarnation

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personalizing God; ex. Jesus

48
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View of the world that takes itself seriously, but can function in the presence of other systems

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Take

49
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Something that can function only in the totality of its own view of the world, must disprove other views

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Spin (ex. fundamentalists)

50
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Demands all of the world work only according to its logic/beliefs

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Closed Spin (sees transcendence as a threat)

51
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How is Peter cross-pressured in Hook?

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He can’t remember the story that claims him

52
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*glance at Hook notes

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*

53
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Who said “Only he who believes is obedient”

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Bon., ex. parable of rich young man, disciples

54
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The way in which we approach the world

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Technology

55
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T/F we are programmed to think that if something makes a claim on us, it’s a problem

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T

56
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Unlike technology, there is nothing ________ in our faith/discipleship

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cheap/easy/quick

57
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What does Bonhoeffer say about the ability to celebrate and claims?

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You can’t celebrate unless a costly claim is made on you (ex. cheap things are fun, but they cannot be celebrated. we celebrate the costly)

58
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Characteristics of Cheap grace

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grace we give ourselves
forgiveness without repentance
baptism without discipline
communion without confession
no cross
no jesus 
no discipleship
59
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Characteristics of Costly Grace

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grace bestowed by God 
forgiveness with repentance
baptism with discipline
communion with confession
discipleship
cross
jesus
60
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T/F if you want to be free, you must allow the CT to make a claim on you

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T

61
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What does Bon. use to describe the life of a disciple?

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The Beatitudes

62
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We have to know doctrine as Christ _______________

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has known us in the flesh

63
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these 2 things always go together

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doctrine and discipleship

64
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“Words about God”

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Theology (begins with God’s revelatory word to us in Jesus and continues as we respond to God and each other)

65
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Parts of the Wesleyan quad.

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Scripture (at top) -> tradition, reason, experience

66
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Heresy that was heavily influenced by Greek thought, claimed to have secret knowledge and denied the goodness of the material world an said Jesus brought special wisdom to tell people how to escape the material world, denied God entered the physical world

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Gnosticism

67
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If Jesus is human rather than an apparition (gnostic view), then you have to believe with your _____

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feet (faith!)

68
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What emerges in the church after Gnosticism appears

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Apostolistic Authority (jesus –> disciples –> apostles –> everyone else)

They choose this rather than having each generation pick what they believe (get closest to the source)
This also leads to church hierarchal structures that put women out of leadership

69
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Claimed that he received special messages directly from the HS that superseded the authority of Paul and Jesus

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Montanus (Montanism)

70
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Why were women given authority in the early church?

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The HS could speak to anyone

71
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Struggled with the problem of evil and said that there must be 2 gods (one OT and one NT); also said that Jesus appeared fully grown and was crucified, but bc of the evil of the world he could not have been created

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Marcion (Marcionism)

72
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Suggested a break with Judaism and proposed using scriptures that didn’t rely on it, wrote his own canon

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Marcion

His canon: Luke, Acts, parts of Paul’s letters

73
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How long does canonization take?

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About 200 years, earliest list of NT books comes in 190, latest in 367

74
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How can we come to know God?

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General (Nature) and Special (Word of God) Revelation

75
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Characteristics of General Rev

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bottom-up approach
info about God through the world around us
natural theology
reason back from observation
uses "not God" to tell about God
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Characteristics of Special Rev

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top-down approach
receives knowledge about God 
depends on God to tell us about God
Particularity 
ex. Jesus and Scripture

*Karl Barth said that General revelation must be filled out by special revelation

77
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What is the primary revelation in Christianity?

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Jesus (not Scripture)

In Islam Scripture is the primary revelation which is why it can only be written in Arabic to be officially the Koran.

78
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3 Theories of Inspiration

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Dictation Theory
Verbal Theory of Inspiration
Plenary Inspiration

79
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Theory of Inspiration that says the Spirit told Biblical writers word for word what to write

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Dictation Theory

80
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Theory of Inspiration that says the HS maintained a close, but not dictatorial relationship with the biblical writers

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Verbal Theory of Inspiration

81
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Theory of Inspiration that says all Scripture is God-breathed and the spirit becomes a living word to us about The Living Word (Jesus)

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Plenary Inspiration

82
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Interpretation

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Hermeneutics

83
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Deuteronomy 6:4

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The Shema

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD is One.”

84
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Trinitarian Heresies

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Adoptionism
Modalism
Arianism

85
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Says that Jesus was a created man adopted by God because he had good morals and God just gives divinity to Jesus

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Adoptionism

The problem: Jesus is not God and worshipping something not God = idolatry

86
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Says that God has different modes/masks and Jesus is divine, but it is just God acting in “Son-mode,” modes do not simultaneously occur

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Modalism

Problem: If God is in modes, this is not the true essence of God –> Idolatry

87
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Says that Jesus is “like” God and is the highest creation of God, but does not share his ousia

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Arianism
“There was no time when the Son was not”

Problem: Jesus is a creature, not God –> Idolatry

88
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ortho

doxa

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right

praise

89
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Says that is the Son was created, he could not be God. The Son was “begotten,” not made and is eternal with God

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Athanasius

90
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Homoousios vs. homoiousios

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Homoousios: Same essence (Athanasius)
Homoiousios: like essence (Arius)

91
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What did the Council of Nicaea do? Year?

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325

affirmed Jesus’ homoousios (same essence)

92
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What did the Council of Constantinople do? Year?

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381

Clarified what Jesus’ homoousios meant

93
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Character of God heresies

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Gnosticism
Montanism
Marcionism

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