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Midterm Flashcards

1
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Missions and Processions

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Missions (Incarnation and Pentecost) reveal processions (relationship of origin).

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Economic and Immanent Trinity

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Rahner’s rule. Wrong because- dependent on creation

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Inward Acts

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Divided. Generation and Procession as actions

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External Acts (and what’s under this)

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Undivided. Everything God does He does as God. Missions.

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Communicable (knowable) attributes

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Knowledge, Wisdom, Goodness, Sovereignty

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Incommunicable (unfathomable) Attributes

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Independent (Rom. 11:36)
Unchangeable (James 1:17) Simple (i.e. not composite)
Eternal (transcends time) (Psalm 90:2)
Not confined (Omnipresent)

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Identity vs Difference

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Ousia/Essence (only exists in the persons) vs Properties/Hypostases (relations of origin)

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Divine Simplicity

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Everything that He is, He is fully

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Divine Oneness

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Everything that is in God is God.

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Shema + verses

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Oneness. Same as Trinitarian Oneness (Deut. 6:4) (1 Tim. 6:15)

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What’s the deal w Revelation and Attestation?

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We need both. Revelation- God made known through the Missions, etc.
Attestation- Scripture.

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Symbolic vs Analogical vs Ectypal

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Symbolic: Placeholder for different thing, Ectypal: impression, Analogical: containing vital similarity.

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What can we say of Father, Son, and Spirit?

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The revealed names are expressed interpretations of the missions,which in turn reveal the processions

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Transcendence vs Immanence

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Incommunicable captures God’s Transcendence/Immanence,
Communicable captures God’s Economic Missions

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15
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Knowable and Fathomable

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God’s Communicable Attributes can be known (experienced) but not understood fully.

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16
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Distinguishing Personal Properties: Father
(verse)

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Unbegotteness, active generation, active Spiration
Eph. 3:14

17
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Distinguishing Personal Properties: Son

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Eternal Begotteness, Passive Generation, Active Spiration
Hebrews 1, John 1

18
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Distinguishing Personal Properties: Spirit

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Passive Spiration or Procession
John 15:26, Galatians 4:6

19
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What is God (q. 7)

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God is a Spirit, in and of himself infinite in being, glory, blessedness, and perfection; all-sufficient (Oneness), eternal, unchangeable, incomprehensible (unfathomable), every where present, almighty, knowing all things, **most **wise, most holy, most just, most merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

20
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Are there more Gods than One (q. 8)

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There is but one only, the living and true God.

21
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How many persons are there in the Godhead? (q. 9)

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There be three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; although
distinguished by their personal properties.

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What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead? (q. 10)

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It is proper to the Father to beget the Son, and to the Son to be begotten of the Father, and to the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son from all eternity

23
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What verses give us hints about Jesus

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Daniel 7:13 and Psalm 110

24
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Trinity verse

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Matthew 28

25
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What marks the distinction of persons and why can’t we say more?

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The inward acts! (Of Procession and Generation) ((Filiation and Spiration)).
Because incommunicability is at the heart of personhood

26
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What is Trinitarian Theology’s overall orienting concern?

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What the missions reveal about God

27
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What does it mean to be a person of the Trinity?

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The term person has come to mean self-existence and rationality

28
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What is q. 7

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What is God

29
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What is q. 8

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Are there more Gods than 1

30
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Transcendent vs immanent

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Far but near. We cant have immanent without transcendent

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