Christology

Question 1

Immanent Trinity

Answer 1

1. “[e]xplain the internal workings and relationships among the three persons of the Trinity.
2. Statements about the immanent Trinity seek to give language to the inexpressible mystery of what God is like apart from reference to God’s dealings with creation. Apart from his immanence.

Question 2

Economic Trinity

Answer 2

1. the manifestations of the three persons of the Trinity in relationship to the world
2. regard to the outworking of God’s plan (economy) of salvation
3. refers to how God as a tripersonal being relates to the world. God’s immanence weirdly enough.

Question 3

Divine Identity

Answer 3

• Sovereignty over all things
• Creation of all things
• Identified by the Divine Name (Rom 10:8-9; Phil 2:5-11)
• Accorded Divine Worship (Monolatry)

Question 4

The incarnation

Answer 4

“The Word became flesh” John 1:14

Question 5

1. Orthodoxy

Answer 5

a. right rendering of Scriptures witness

Question 6

2. Heresy

Answer 6

a. subversive, deficient, or destructive faith that leads to unbelief

Question 7

1. Docetism

Answer 7

a. Teaching that Jesus was fully God but only appeared to be human

Question 8

2. Ebionism

Answer 8

a. Denied the full deity of Jesus, and espoused a form of adoptionism. Christ became the anointed one at his baptism, an was chosen by God because of his perfect obedience to the Law of Moses

Question 9

Arianism

Answer 9

o Proposed that Jesus was the highest created being of God. Christ was fully human but not fully God

Question 10

2. Homoousion

Answer 10

a. Being of one substance with the Father

Question 11

Apollinarism

Answer 11

a. Christ took on a human body, but not a human mind or human spirit

Question 12

2. Hypostases

Answer 12

a. “Three persons” for describing the relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Question 13

Nestorianism

Answer 13

a. Although Jesus Christ was one person (God and man united) his two natures (one human and one divine) existed side by side and hence were separable.

Question 14

Eutychianism

Answer 14

a. The belief that Jesus Christ possessed one nature. The divine and human are fully united in the incarnation.

Question 15

3. The Hypostatic Union

Answer 15

a. Christ’s two distinct natures are united in the “one and same” person (hypostasis).

Question 16

Threefold Office of Christ

Answer 16

a. Prophet
b. King
c. Priest

Question 17

Mediatoral Christology

Answer 17

2. Uniting Christ’s personhood and work

Question 18

3. Redemption

Answer 18

a. The process by which sinful humans are brought back from the bondage of sin into relationship with God through grace by the payment of Jesus death

Question 19

4. Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Answer 19

a. The shedding of blood is the symbolic forgiveness

b. We are reconciled by the forgiveness - the death of Christ

Question 20

1. Recapitulation

Answer 20

a. Jesus in perfect obedience is humanities new representative and by his obedience we are redeemed from the devil

Question 21

2. Ransom

Answer 21

a. A commercial transaction occurred during crucifixion where God pulls the strings above for our sin through Jesus Christ

Question 22

3. Christus Victor

Answer 22

a. Crucifixion was cosmic victory over the powers of death. Foremost there is a supernatural battle in play between God and the devil. The cross is the triumph over Satan.

Question 23

4. Satisfaction

Answer 23

a. Based on the metaphor of God as Sovereign, who has been dishonored by sin, must receive satisfaction.

Question 24

5. Moral Influence

Answer 24

a. Above all the cross is a grand display of God’s love.

Question 25

6. Exemplary

Answer 25

a. Crucifixion is the ultimate example for humanity. How we are to live,

Question 26

7. Governmental

Answer 26

a. Crucifixion is a public punishment of sin for the world to see how serious sin is to God the Father.

Question 27

8. Penal Substitutionary

Answer 27

a. Jesus as our substitute on the cross bears the wrath of God as penalty for our sin.

Question 28

Propitiation

Answer 28

the appeasement of wrath