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Exam 1 Flashcards

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What is the major take away of Theo 1?

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The telos of mankind is the beatific vision
- the blessed vision of God
- at least seeing the glory of God in the image of Christ

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What is 1 Timothy 3:14-16 discussing?

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  • The church is the pillar/buttress: supporting structures
  • we confess: incarnation, life/death/resurrection, preincarnate/incarnation/resurrection/glory, gospel goes forth concerning Christ, taken up into glory
  • theology is systematic - a confession, a statement of faith
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What is the theological task according to Anselm?

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“Faith seeking understanding”

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How do we come up with theology?

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  • the theological task is to bring things together (systematic theology)
  • NOT developing something new
  • BUT clarification because we are imperfect
  • USES: extrabiblical terms to present what is in the scriptures (ie trinity)
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What are the aspects of revelation?

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Natural: God reveals Himself through what He has made (Psa 19:1-6, Rom 1:18-20)
- man can know God apart from the Scriptures because of creation, we are without excuse
Special: God reveals Himself through what His word (spoken) (Psa 19:7-11, 2 Timothy 3:16)
- recognize that we bring theological presuppositions to God’s word (perceptions, understanding, culture, nature)

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What is the idea of theology according to Webster?

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Biblical Reasoning

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What about simple faith?

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  • NOT: just Jesus, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit
  • Because: how do we know who Jesus is (Jehovah Witnesses say they believe Jesus, Col 1:18)
  • MUST: add knowledge to our faith 2 Peter 1:5-8
  • ANSWER: who or what is our faith in? Studying God and things relative to Him–maintain Creator/Creature distinction
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How does revelation inform interpretation and exegesis?

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(The study of scripture)
- it should confirm and challenge our presuppositions
- our theological mindset is preconditioned by former churches, parents, the Bible minor
- Recognized the word is God breathed: uniquely authoritative
- theological knowledge (ie trinity, God & Mosaic authorship) informs how we read the whole book

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What is the Canonical lens?

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The study of Scripture as a whole
(1 superintending author (God) over all other authors)
- Canon is from God
- Interpret it as one big story

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What is historical interpretation? The current problem?

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the study of what the church has said throughout history
- Problem: modern hyperindividualism (Me, Jesus, Holy Spirit)
- Answer: Eph 4:11-14, 2:18-20 foundation of Apostles and prophets now & PAST evangelists, teachers, pastors: Should go back to past wisdom (creeds & confessions)

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What is Biblicism?

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It is a danger to historical interpretation claiming only the Bible and the Holy Spirit is important, it is allergic to tradition
- True: Bible is final authority
- But: if only need Bible, why go to church to hear its interpretation
- Bereans (Acts 17:10-15) together, in community considered Paul’s words
(Ahistorical mindset, irresponsible proof texting, anti-metaphysics, univocal predication, restrictive revelation, overemphasis on the human author)

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What about Sola/Solo scriptura?

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Scripture alone, not Bible alone without history of interpretation (Solo)

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What is level zero of tradition?

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Radicals & rationalists: traditions are worthless and wicked because the apostles and the church are lost so we must reinvent traditions. Only the Bible is authoritative and is the source of theology
- fosters skepticism and opens the door for cultural adaptation of truth. Arrogant and fool hearty (think not bring any tradition)

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What is level one of tradition?

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Protestant reformers: church is not lost, but needs reform. Tradition helps to interpret the Bible properly and carries authority in church, however, Scripture is the final (not only) authority.

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What is level two of tradition?

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Roman Catholics: tradition is the second source of infallible revelation on par or even above Scripture.

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What is theological humility?

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Recognizing that there are old things that are new to me
- cannot say someone is not a Christian just because they hold a different secondary or tertiary issue
- Creator/Creature distinction
- Incomprehensibility
- Accommodation

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What is the Creator/Creature distinction?

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God is completely other than us.
- All powerful and His power is completely other
- All knowing

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What is incomprehensibility?

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God cannot ultimately be known by us
- our understanding is limited, but God has chosen to reveal some to us

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What is accommodation?

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God reveals Himself in ways to help familiarize His otherness to us
- Analogies, Fatherhood, Marriage, Incarnation

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Why study theology?

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  • Romans 12:1-2 transforms our mind, discern God’s will, conformed to the Bible
  • Everyone is a theologian (thoughts about God & His Divine attributes are clear)
  • God is worthy: all glory and praise so not abstracted but know according to what He has given us
  • God is knowable (though incomprehensible)
  • Romans 11:33-36, No one knows God’s mind or can counsel Him because of the Creator/Creature distinction–everything is from, through, and to Him
  • Nothing and no one greater to contemplate than God and how all things relate to Him
  • Goal of life, study, and worship is God culminating in the Beatific Vision
    – Have the end in mind (God’s end is to glorify Himself)
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What are the different types of theology?

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Biblical, historical, philosophical, and systematic theology

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What is Biblical theology?

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The trajectory of scripture. Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation (everything toward a known end)
- recognize we come with presuppositions ie it is God’s word and the final authority for faith and practice

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What is historical theology?

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Theological survey through history
- what the church historically believed about something (firstborn in Col 1:15 means heir)

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What is philosophical theology?

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The questions: how do we think about things, what do we think about the world, what is real?, What are the underpinnings of reality?
*Way of viewing reality and truth (all exists and find being in God)
- Recognizing everyone has philosophical presuppositions.
- Acts 17:26 discusses time & place which are very philosophical concepts

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What is systematic theology?

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The synthesis of Biblical, historical, and philosophical theology which helps to organize reasoning (and the reasoning of others)
- systematized and categorized properly to be understood as a whole

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What does univocal mean?

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To comparatively say the same thing about God and creation
- gets most tripped up ie cannot say human and divine parenting are equal

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What does equivocal mean?

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To have more than one possible meaning
- (Bat) not helpful because not work out

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What does analogical mean?

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Comparatively state something that is not equal but helps bring understanding
- Danger: going bottom up - cannot do this because we are imperfect

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What does ectype mean?

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Shadow (ie Adam, see Romans 5:12-14)

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What does archetype mean?

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Substance (ie Christ, see Rom 5:12-14)

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What is anthropomorphic?

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Humanlike features attributed to God in order to accommodate our understanding
(wings, strong arm, throne)

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What is anthropathic?

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Humanlike emotions that accommodate our understanding (wrath)

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What is anthroprochonic?

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Humanlike experience with time that accommodates our understanding

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What is the location of theology?

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  • In the church (community & history)
  • With the church (of the past) - we are not separated or smarter than the church before
  • For the church (not personal accolades)
  • Individualism is not Biblical (saved individually, then into Christ’s body)
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Soteriology:

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all things relating to God and Salvation

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What is primary theology?

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Theological matters of first importance. Anything outside of these bounds are grounds to declare a church or someone not (a) Christian - 1 Cor 15:1-5 - Gospel, trinity

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What is secondary theology?

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Theological matters of secondary importance. Causes denominations - ecclesial matters: baptism, church polity

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What is tertiary theology?

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Theological matters of third (and lowest) priority (eschatology etc: matters that should not divide)

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What is doxology?

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For Christians, the study of God leads to awe and praise
- (Rom 1:18-21 non-believers turn praise to creation)
- (Rom 11:33-36 no one can know God, theology is God centered, 1 Tim 6:13-16

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What is apophatic?

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That which is described of God negatively (immutable, Malachi 3:6)

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What is cataphatic?

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That which is described of God positively (God is love)

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What is incommmunicable (with regard to the doctrine of God)?

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God’s attributes that are not communicated to humanity (aseity)

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What is communicable (with regard to the doctrine of God)?

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God’s attributes that can be communicated to humanity (refracted- not perfect)

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What is divine simplicity?

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  • God is not composed of parts, Exo 3:14 exists in totality, completeness
  • God is His attributes (perfections)
  • God is all that He is eternally: cannot apply external understanding because He is the source
  • Implies: Divine essence
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What is divine essence?

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  • God’s divine “nature”: what He is
  • God’s “being”: substance (not being in sense of dependance/beginning)
    These are how we can understand God
  • God is ultimately unknowable (Yet we know that He exists)
  • God is His essence
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What is divine aseity?

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  • God’s self-existence (Is 48:12) no beginning or end
  • God’s self-sufficiency Acts 17:25
  • God is uncaused
  • God is independent (no reliance on anyone, each trinitarian aspect is independence, no separation)
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What is divine immutability?

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God does not change (James 1:17 - we are dependent on Him and He will always be there)
- Process: God is not becoming (nothing to learn)
- Potentiality there is no potential in God for change (we have potential)
- Parts: God does not have parts - cannot be added to or taken away from (nothing looseable)
- Passions: No change in passions in scripture - analogy (Mal 3:6) (we change - being under condemnation to not)
- Perfections: :God is His attributes
- Plans: God’s plans do not change (Isaiah 46:8-11, Job 42:2)

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What is divine impassibility?

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  • Since divine immutability is true so is impassibility
  • God does not experience emotional change from within or effected by his relationship with creation
  • God does not suffer
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What is pure act?

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(Actus Purus)
- God is fully/maximally alive
- There is nothing to actualize in God (not becoming) there is no becoming in God
- Passive potency: nothing can affect change in God
- God is all that He is without need of change
– Ad Intra: in Himself - not bound by space and time
– Ad Extra: outward expression - working out of God’s plan in space and time (the incarnation)
(Acts 2:22-23 God and man put Jesus on the Cross)

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What is divine infinitude?

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  • God cannot be contained in any sense, omnipresent
  • Quantity: there is no way to measure God quantitatively
  • Dimension: there is no way to measure God dimensionally, in space or in time
    – Divine Atemporality or Eternity: God is eternal in the sense that God does not exist in sequential time
  • Locality: nowhere where God is contained geographically, He is..
    – Immanent: near
    – Transcendent: far apart (other than us)
    Other and beyond but near Deu 4:32-39
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What is omniscience?

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  • divine knowledge
  • a posteriori: that which is known through empirical evidence
  • a priori: that which is known without experience
  • God’s knowledge is limitless, and priori
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What is omnipotence:

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  • Divine power
  • limited by who God is in and of himself
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What is omnipresence?

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  • divine immensity
  • like divine infinitude (that He cannot be contained) but that emphasizing he is everywhere present
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What is omnisacpience?

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  • God is maximally wise
  • considering His immutable plans and divine power leads us to maximally wise
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What is via triplex?
Ultimately, what?

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Three steps by which we know God
- Way of causation: God is known by the fact that He is the creator
- Way of Negation: since God is not equal to His creatures we must remove from our thoughts of God anything imperfect in creation
- Way of Imminence–since other than creation these thoughts must be guarded by God’s incomparability and void of creaturely imperfections

**Ultimately God is ineffable in that we are unable to fully escribe Him

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Ecclesiology:

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all things relating to God and His church

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Eschatology:

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all things relating to God and His consummative plan

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Protology:

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all things relating to God and His eternal plan from before Creation

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Anthropology:

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all things relating to God and His creation of mankind and mankind proper (who God created us to be)

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Paterology:

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all things relating to God in the person of the Father

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Christology:

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all things relating to God in the person of the son and his incarnation

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Pneumatology:

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all things relating to God in the person of the Holy Spirit

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Hamartiology:

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all things relating to God and sin

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Angelology:

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all things relating to God and angels

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Diabology:

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all things relating to God and Satan and demons

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Missiology:

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all things relating to God and the mission of the church

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What is Modern theistic renderings?

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Theistic mutualism/theistic personalism: modern rendering portraying God as a bigger version of humanity
(contra Romans 11:33-36 - no counselor for God)
- they claim: God doesn’t change in His Divine Nature but He does change relationally with His creatures
- Soft: modern evangelicals forgetting historical theology
- Hard: theological liberals

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What is important about a trinitarian faith?

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  • We are trinitarian (no apologize)
  • Not because of creeds and confessions but because this truth is revealed in Scripture
  • However, the creeds and confession summarizes and confirm what we believe (summarize to defend against heresy)
  • We must therefore read and study the scriptures and theology “trinitarinaly”
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Where can we finds hints of the Trinity in the Old Testament?

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  • In the beginning (Spirit)
  • Psa 2: kiss the son
  • Psa 110: the LORD, my Lord
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What are the aspects of a Nicaean faith?

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  • Heresy of necessity brings about a strengthening of orthodoxy (defend & hold to the truth)
  • Arian Controversy “just reading the Bible” firstborn: created vs heir
  • Nicaean creed 381 (begotten: eternal generation: divinity from father)
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What is not one iota of difference likely referring to?

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  • Homoousion: of the same substance
  • Homoiousion: of the similar substance
72
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What are two important aspects of trinitarian theology?

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  • Eternal modes of subsistence
  • Eternal relations of origin
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What is eternal modes of subsistence?

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One divine essence subsists in three persons

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What is eternal relations of origin in the three persons of the trinity and what does this tell us about distinction?

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  • Father: Unbegotten, the Father is the Father and not the Son (paternity - personal property)
  • Son: Eternal generation or begotten: the Son is eternally begotten from the Father (filiation)
  • Spirit: Eternal spiration or procession, the Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son (spiration)
  • Only eternal relations of origin distinguishes the persons (NOT FUNCTION)
  • missions do not constitute the subsistence
  • We should not project God’s mission(s) (ad extra) into God’s eternal life (ad intra)
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What is inseparable operations?

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  • There is one will in God and so God acts as one (Divine Simplicity)
  • Because of what we know about the processions of the Son and the Spirit we understand that there must be inseparability in what the Trinity does
  • The trinity must not be divided
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What is Personal appropriations?

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  • each action is appropriated personally
  • this truth does not mean there are sparable operations
  • rather the divine action being one is related to (drawing attention to) the personal property of the divine person to whom it corresponds
    – the Father (unbegotten) send (eternally begotten) Son by the (eternally Spirated - power) of the Spirit
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What are problematic trinitarian theories?

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  • EFS (Eternal functional submission of the Son)
  • ERAS (Eternal Relations of Authority and Submission)
  • Concept: the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father (modern understanding of person whereas the ancients understood that to be someone’s son was to be equal to them)
  • Problem: conflating ad extra to ad intra
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What is common predication?

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Trinitarian language that means that which is common to all three persons, such as Lord

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What is proper predication?

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Trinitarian language that is ascribed to the Father, Son, and Spirit

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What is the immanent trinity?

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The ad intra, eternal reality of the trinity

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What is the economic trinity?

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The ad extra, external missions of the trinity (accommodation)

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What is Rahner’s Rule?

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The economic trinity is the immanent trinity
- CANNOT do this: must begin with who God IS, must believe what the Book of the Bible and the Book of Nature tell us about God ad intra

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What is Arianism?

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A trinitarian heresy that believes the Son is not eternal

84
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What is Adoptionism?

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A trinitarian heresy that believes that Jesus was merely human, but God adopted him (does away with the Divinity of Christ)

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What is Sabellianism/Modalism?

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A trinitarian heresy that says there is one God (one essence and only one person) who manifests himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at certain times in History
- Oneness (and some holiness) Pentecostals, T.D. Jakes
(Flattening things out in an understandable way, takes away from the mystery of God)

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What is Docetism?

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A trinitarian heresy that says Jesus only appeared to be human but was not truly human (Gnosticism: flesh is evil)

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What is social trinitarianism?

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A trinitarian heresy that is the trinity for our use. The relationship between Father, Son, and Spirit relates to some aspect of humanity (marriage, gay)
- More conservative circles relate the relations between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to marriage and family (could also be related to gay)

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What is the grace of revelation?

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Goal: to understand that God reveals Himself in His creation and works
Why Grace?
- The transcendent God has made Himself Known
- What was normal in the beginning is severed at the fall
- However, God in His grace leaves us not only with natural revelation but He is a God who speaks

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What is general revelation?

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  • General/natural revelation
  • implies God reveals Himself in what He has made and by what He has done (Psa 19, Rom 1:18-20)
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What is the difference between natural revelation and natural theology? What do these also have to do with?

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  • Natural revelation: What God reveals about Himself though what He has made
  • Natural theology: The attempt of mankind to interpret what he observed about God through what He has made
  • Natural revelation and interpretation: also have to do with what we understand about creation, especially mankind (Psa 8, Rom 1: 21-25)
    – Mankind has a religious nature - a bent towards worship
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What can be discerned from Natural Revelation?

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  • God exists
  • All that is created exists because of God
  • Mankind exists because of God
  • All creation is dependent upon God
  • Mankind participates in God’s existence by way of dependance on Him Divine Participation
  • Morality is implied in creation (From God’s character- no arbitration, law on gentiles heart wars with sin nature that needs transformation, Jesus’ summary: Love God then others)
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What are the limits of natural revelation?

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  • Not enough information to be reconciled to God
  • Can only condemn mankind
  • Because of sin mankind has twisted natural revelation and thus natural order and suppressed the truth of God in unrighteousness: Reversal of natural order & idolatry
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What does BB Warfield say about the Old Testament and the trinity?

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The Trinity in the Old Testament is like a chamber richly furnished but dimly lighted

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What is tritheism?

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One of the dangers of ERAS/EFS thinking there are three centers of consciousness or leading

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