JESUS CHRIST: God and Man Flashcards
Two natures / One person
Jesus Christ is God and Savior
Heresiarch
the founder of a heresy or the leader of a heretical sect
Arius / Arians
questioned whether the Son of God who became incarnate as the man Jesus was equal with God the Father in eternity
Apollinarius
Christian teacher / Apollinarianism- questioned whether Jesus, the incarnate Word, had a human mind or only a divine mind
Nestorius
Christian bishop / Nestorians- questioned whether a person could be both truly human and truly divine and really be one person
Eutyches
Christian monk / Eutychians & Monophysites- questioned whether a divine-human person could have dual natures or whether such a one must be a third something- a hybrid of divinity and humanity
Theotokos
Mother of God (used in the Eastern Orthodox Church as a title of the Virgin Mary).
Chalcedon (451 A.D., pp. 226-7
place that the 4th ecumenical (universal) council of Christian bishops gathered (near the capital city of the Roman Empire known as Constantinople) to develop a definition of correct, unifying Christian belief
Hypostatic union
incarnation of Christ as a union of two natures in the one person of the eternal Word, the Son of God
Docetism
first alternative to Christology; promoted by Gnostics within the Christian churches; believed that matter is either evil or so corrupt that the heavenly redeemer could not combine with matter (they denied the true humanity of the Savior)
Recapitulation
Christ’s saving work; a process of going through all the stages of human life in a human nature (not merely pretending to be human) and obeying where the first man, Adam, disobeyed
Adoptionism
belief that Jesus Christ was only human but a very special human– one “adopted” by God as his special prophet and “son.” According to most adoptionists, this happened at the baptism of Jesus, but other adoptionists have attempted to root it in God’s own eternal intention to raise up a special man to reveal him in a unique way
