week 2: historical survey I-II Flashcards

1
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Christ is a mere man; adopted by God at his baptism.

A

Adoptionism

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2
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who founded adoptionism?

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Cerinthus/the Ebionites

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3
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Adoptionism spreads and becomes more well developed and well spread into the 3rd century and __________ becomes a central figure at this time

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Paul of Samosata

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4
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what does Unitarianism refer to?

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denies the Trinity of Persons, holds that there not 3 persons in the 1 God

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5
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what does Tritheism refer to?

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holds that there are 3 distinct Persons in the Trinity, but holds they are not united

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6
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what are two types of Trinitarian heresies?

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Unitarianism and Tritheism

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7
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What did Paul of Samosata mean when he used the word Homoousios?

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“of the same person”

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what did Nicea mean when using the word Homoousious?

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“of the same substance”, this is how the Church refers to homoousious

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9
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Paul of Samosata transmit his view on subordinationism to _____ (who is teacher of ____)

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Lucian, Arius

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10
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due to ________, the word _____ was prohibited

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Paul of Samosata’s misuse and misleadings, homoousious

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11
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the prohibition of homoousios to mean _____________ still exists today

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of the same person

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12
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heresy wherein Word is another name for the Father who becomes the Son by the Incarnation and suffers for mankind

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patripassionism

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13
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Sabellianism has its roots in _________

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patripassionism

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14
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God is one person, Father/Son/HS are three ways that God expresses Himself in the economy of human salvation

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Sabellianism

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15
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Denial of any distinction in God and asserted that in God there is only one hypostasis and three masks/roles/modes

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Modalism (includes Patripassionism/Sabellianism)

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16
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What did Origen teach?

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1) 3 hypostases (aka 3 individuals) (good)
2) eternal generation of the Son (good)
3) homoousios (good)
4) hierarchy, inequality in Trinity (not good)

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17
Q

Jesus (is/is not) a creature

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is NOT

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18
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Jesus was __________

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begotten, not made

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19
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unity of substance, trinity of Persons is the terminology asserted by _______

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Tertullian

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20
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What did Arius teach?

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a) God’s substance = incommunicable.
b) The Word = an intermediary
c) The Word = created; “begotten” means “adopted”
d) The Holy Spirit is the first creature created by the Word.

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21
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Arius equates being begotten with _______

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being created

22
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Scripture testifies that Jesus is __________

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begotten not made (not created, eternal)

23
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In the Nicene Creed, the Church dogmatically defines:

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1) Jesus is God and
2) The Second Divine Person proceeds from the First Divine Person by Generation, and therefore is related to Him as Son to a Father (De Fide)

24
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God the Father/Son/Holy Spirit ____

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is ONE nature (not three)

25
Q

Macedonianism/Pneumatomachi asserted that _____________

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the Holy Spirit is not God

26
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_______________ defended the divinity of the HS and his consubstantiality with the F. and the S.

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Sts. Athanasius
Basil,
Gregory Nazianzus
Gregory Nyssa and
Didymus of Alexandri

27
Q

“ousia” can mean…

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essence or person/rational nature

28
Q

Thus, God is “_________________”

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one ousia (essence), and three hypostases (persons)

29
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The major contribution of the Cappadocian Fathers

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honing in the Greek terminology

30
Q

The Cappadocian Fathers showed that to be begotten does not ______________

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always entail being created.

31
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In the Creed of 381, the Church dogmatically defines:

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1) The HS = God, and 2) In God there are two internal Divine Processions (De Fide)

32
Q

Pneumatomachianism was condemned 1) at the Synod of Alexandria (_____) by St. Athanasius
2) at Constantinople I (____) – Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Creed:
and 3) at the Roman Synod (_____) by Pope St. Damasus which condemned all ancient antitrinitarian errors, especially Macedonianism (vs. HS).

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362, 381, 382

33
Q

In the Athanasian Creed (_______), the Church teaches: The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, but ___________

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Quicumque, not through generation. (De fide)

34
Q

“perceived peculiarities” = ________

A

idiomata

35
Q

In the God-head, ___________ are undivided

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nature and activity

36
Q

The Holy Spirit comes ____________, whereas the Son comes ________. This shows that ____________

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from the Father through the Son, through the Father alone. There is something unique about the F/S/HS

37
Q

Only the Son _________

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is begotten

38
Q

Only the Holy Spirit _____________

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proceeds from the Father through the Son

39
Q

in the next life, do we see the Divine Essence?

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Yes; note: Eastern Church Fathers would say we will not

40
Q

there are two types of temporal missions. what are they?

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visible: Son = incarnation; the sending of the HS on Pentecost

invisible: Indwelling of the Trinity in the souls of the just

41
Q

there are Eternal Processions. How many? what are they?

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2; Son from the Father, Holy Spirit from the Father through the Son

42
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what proceeds is outside of the substance of its source.

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external procession

43
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what proceeds remains within the very substance of its source.

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internal procession

44
Q

the human internal processions of intellect and will are analogous to the divine processions of generation and spiration. Analogous b/c man = the image of God (precisely in his intellect and will).

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psychological analogy

45
Q

Why can there only be 2 processions?

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There are only 2 powers: intellectual, will

46
Q

The Son proceeds by _______

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intellect

47
Q

The Holy Spirit proceeds by ________

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will

48
Q

attributing to one Divine Person an action or characteristic that belongs to all three persons in common in order to highlight something truly

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theory of attribution

49
Q

mutual indwelling (in Greek)

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perichoresis

50
Q

mutual indwelling (in Latin)

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circumincession