Test #2

Question 1

Angel of Yahweh

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Presentation of Christ before his appearance in NT.

Question 2

Apollinarianism

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The idea the Christ had one active principle (rational nature) that is the divine Logos. In other words, he had no human nature, but simply human appearance.

Question 3

Arianism

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declared that Jesus was a god, the firstborn of all creation and creator of the universe, but not equal in either essence or person to God the Father.

Question 4

Chalcedonian Creed

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Same Son, Same Godhead, Perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man, Same (homoousios) with the Father as to his Godhead and likewise to his manhood. Begotten of the Godhead for Divinity and born of virgin Mary for humanity. God and man in two natures, but one person.

Question 5

‘Ehad

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Question 6

Enhypostasis

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“in substance” Chalcedon’s view that the full humanity of Christ was sustained within the eternal person of the Son.

Question 7

Eternal Generation and Procession: Biblical Evidence and Importance

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the Son is eternally generated (begotten) of the Father (John 5:23-24); the HS is eternally in procession from the Father (John 15:26). Eternal is very important, allowing both to be God. More to the function of HS as proceeding from God.

Question 8

Eutychianism

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In response to Nestorius, it stressed so completely the unity of Christ that it made deity and humanity indistinguishable in nature.

Question 9

Father God, Characteristics and Place

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creator. Eternal. On his throne.

Question 10

Firstborn (Prototokos)

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comes with two connotations; 1) Literal oldest or born first. 2) OT feel of Priority or Superiority. he term firstborn denotes one who is the special object of favor.

Question 11

Fons Totius Divinitas

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Question 12

Holy Spirit: Biblical Evidence for Personhood and Deity

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Question 13

Hypostatic Union, Two Natures of Christ

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Question 14

Relationship between Christ God and Man

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Question 15

Importance of Hypostatic Union for Salvation (see Chalcedonian Creed)

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Question 16

Immaculate Conception

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The idea that Mary was without original sin at the time of the birth of christ. As Christ is the new adam so Mary was the new Eve. Thought mainly by Augustine. As the mother of our Lord, she is the Mother of the church

Question 17

Jesus Christ: Biblical Basis of Deity and Humanity

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Question 18

Kenosis

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To empty, the self emptying of Christ. Many argue many differing things about the Kenosis of christ. Ultimately I hold that He limited himself because he could never have been without.

Question 19

7 Keys of Christological Orthodoxy

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Question 20

Modern Christologies: Schleiermacher

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No divine nature, but a complete and utter giving over of himself to God. Human nature dissapeared and the HS presided.

Question 21

Nestorianism

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Separated the two persons (human and divine) so far that it became a doctrine of two separate persons within one body. Banned by the Council of Ephesus.

Question 22

OT Evidences of the Trinity, One God yet Plural Agencies

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Question 23

Parakletos

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Question 24

Perichoresis

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Question 25

Son as God, Relation to Father and Spirit

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Question 26

Theotokos: Appropriateness for Evangelicals

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Lutheran and Reformed theologians use it to sustain Chalcedon orthodoxy. Stated to claim the Deity of the singular person (Christ) through a virgin woman.

Question 27

Trisagion (holy, holy, holy Isaiah 6:3)

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Question 28

Wisdom of God

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Question 29

What are Primary biblical evidences for the doctrine of the Trinity

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Question 30

Why in the incarnation did the Son not absolutely, publicly prove he is God

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Question 31

is mary the Mother of God? How would you persuade a Roman Catholic not to pray to Mary

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Mary is the mother of God in the sense of growing and berthing the child Christ. Mary is the form of humanity needed for the hypostatic union of God and man and no more than that. Later text goes on to prove her sexual relations with her husband disproving perpetual virginity. Mary sinned. She recognized her need for a savior.

Question 32

Describe the Intratrinitarian relationships in the NT

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Question 33

Was the earliest church Trinitarian? Why or Why not?

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Yes. In recognition that christ was God through his teachings about himself. As well as the acts of the Holy Spirit. If anything is on the lower end it is the acts of the Holy Spirit in deity.

Question 34

Modern Christologies: Harnack

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The Gospel has to do with the Father only. The human soul so ennobled that it can and does unit with God.

Question 35

Modern Christologies: Barth

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Placed Jesus as the cornerstone for all theological knowledge (Father, Holy Spirit, etc.). Early on gave Deity more favor to Christ and later focused on the perfect manhood of Christ. Stated that there is clear distinction between the two natures of Christ.

Question 36

Modern Christologies: Bultmann

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Useless to get behind the story form of the NT. We can not know the Jesus of the Bible because it is shrouded in myth, but myth can be used as a guide to our own self knowledge. The bible story did not happen, but we can adapt the principles of the story to our lives.

Question 37

Anhypostasis

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"not a persona on its own" The human nature would not have existed without the incarnation of the divine nature; the Son assumed a human nature, not the personality of a specific human being.