Midterm Recap

Question 1

Pharisees

Answer 1

Keep Jewish law

Question 2

Sadducees

Answer 2

Appease Roman rule

Question 3

Essenes

Answer 3

Withdraw from Roman life

Question 4

Zealots

Answer 4

Fight back against Rome

Question 5

Early Church

Answer 5

Filled w/ questions about who Jesus is and who to worship

Question 6

Secular

Answer 6

Not of God (not necessarily evil)

Question 7

Temporal

Answer 7

Physical, finite, limited

Question 8

Holy

Answer 8

Divine, infinite, unlimited

Question 9

Montanism

Answer 9

Heretic who believed he could hear from God directly, surpassing the apostles and Jesus

Question 10

Marcian

Answer 10

2 Gods; OT and NT, only read and worship NT

Question 11

General revelation

Answer 11

Observations and assumptions

Question 12

Special revelation

Answer 12

Knowledge from God

Question 13

Ongoing continuity

Answer 13

We need special and general revelation; Grace perfects nature

Question 14

Unveiled continuity

Answer 14

Our sin hinders our interpretations and knowledge of God

Question 15

Dictation theory

Answer 15

Spirit directly told writers what to write word for
Word

Question 16

Verbal inspiration

Answer 16

Spirit was close to biblical writers but not word for word

Question 17

Plenary inspiration

Answer 17

All scripture is God breathed

Question 18

Adoptionism

Answer 18

HERESY - God adopted Jesus to be the Son of God

Jesus is not God

Question 19

Modalism

Answer 19

HERESY - God has “modes”; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

To worship a “mode” is not worshipping God

Question 20

Arianism

Answer 20

HERESY- Jesus is like God; Jesus didn’t share God’s essence “Ousia”

Jesus is a creature, not God

Question 21

Homoousia

Answer 21

Same in being and essence

Question 22

Ousia

Answer 22

True being

Question 23

Nician Council

Answer 23

325

Question 24

Council of Constantinople

Answer 24

381

Argued what the father-son relationship meant

Same substance or same type of substance

Question 25

Hypostasis

Answer 25

Differentiation, not seperation

Question 26

Orthodoxy

Answer 26

Right Praise

Question 27

Creation Story

Answer 27

God intimately creates creation

God created order out of Chaos

God doesn’t compete with other gods

Question 28

Evil and Goodness

Answer 28

Goodness is, evil is not
Evil is unnatural and doesn’t belong

Evil was not created by God

Question 29

Anthropology

Answer 29

What it means to be human

Question 30

Psychosomatic

Answer 30

Always physical and spiritual

Question 31

Particularity

Answer 31

Jesus came to Earth as flesh and God. Take it at face value. This is who Jesus actually is.

Question 32

Gnosticism

Answer 32

People who believed they receive secret knowledge (gnosis) from Heaven.

Question 33

Apostolic Authority

Answer 33

Apostles have authority

Question 34

Primary good

Answer 34

God… the gift giver. Enjoy this good

Question 35

Secondary Good

Answer 35

The gift. Everything else besides God. Use it to enjoy primary good

Question 36

Apollinarianism

Answer 36

Someone who believed the divine Word replaced or possesses the human spirit in Jesus. Jesus does not have a full human spirit. Problem… If Jesus isn’t fully human, he can’t save humanity.

Question 37

Eutychianism

Answer 37

Believes Christ is of two natures, and only one after incarnation. Not fully divine Jesus equals no salvation

Question 38

Nestorianism

Answer 38

Believes Jesus is fully Divine and fully human, but these two natures don’t touch in Jesus. Jesus activates his divine power to do divine things, and activates his human form to do human things.