The Creeds

Question 0

Homoousios

Answer 0

Same substance ~ Greek

Question 1

Creed

Answer 1

Latin “credo” meaning I believe

A creed is a statement of belief

Question 2

Homoiousios

Answer 2

Similar substance

Question 3

Theotokos

Answer 3

Mother of God

Question 4

Christotokos

Answer 4

Mother of Christ

Question 5

Filoque Clause

Answer 5

“And the son” added to the Nicine creed

Question 6

Docetic heresy

Answer 6

Jesus was God. But he was a ghost. He did not have a human body

Question 7

Arian heresy

Answer 7

Jesus created by God to be lower than God yet greater than man. Jesus was of
Similar substance to God

Question 8

Apollinarian heresy

Answer 8

Jesus was a human whom the Holy Spirit filled and controlled like a robot

Question 9

Nestorian heresy

Answer 9

Jesus was two people one was God the other human

Question 10

Eutycian heresy

Answer 10

Jesus was a mixture of God and man. He had two natures before the incarnation and one at and after

Question 11

Antiochene school

Answer 11

Upheld Jesus’s humanity while compromising his deity

Question 12

What is it meant that creeds can be proactive or reactive?

Give an example of each

Answer 12

Proactive- states beliefs to protect from heresies or keep from future heresies ~apostles creed
Reactive- responds to an existing church heresy ~ Nicene creed

Question 13

What creed resulted from the Arian heresy?

Answer 13

The Nicene creed

Question 14

Terms in second article that contradict Arian teachings

Answer 14

Begotten 
God of God 
Light of light 
Very God of very God 
Begotten not made

Question 15

What creed resulted from the conflict or the alexandrine and antiochene schools? As a result what is the emphasis of that creed?

Answer 15

Definition of Chalcedon

Emphasized that Jesus was both fully God and fully man