HT200

Question 0

Doctrine

Answer 0

“Teaching”

The study beyond creeds to further doctrinal formulations

Question 1

Dogma

Answer 1

The study of confessional statements

“A decree, a decision, or a command.”

Derived from ecumenical councils

Confessional churches only

Question 2

The two methods of study of the history of doctrine

Answer 2

The historical analytical method.

The synthetic historical method.

Question 3

The historical analytical method

Answer 3

Divides the history of Doctrine into general or synthetic and special or analytic history. It seeks to segment church history (ancient, mid evil, Reformation, and modern) as the framework for the study of the development of the seven branches of systematic theology

Question 4

Reasons for not accepting the historical analytical method

Answer 4

1. It makes the study of doctrine disjointed and, thus, suffers from loose of continuity. History swallows doctrine. There is a danger if history is totally neglected because it does provide the context of historical development. The stress in our course is doctrine, then history.
2. It necessitates inevitable repetition which can otherwise be avoided.
3. It, most importantly, does not admit to a strictly historical treatment of the subject

Question 5

The synthetic historical method

Answer 5

This method attempts to trace each branch of systematic theology individually through the entire history of the church. It assumes a working knowledge of the flow of church history and focuses upon the development of an overview of the course of each doctrine in history.

Question 6

Response of the Ancient Church to Heresy

Answer 6

1) Doctrine of Apostolic Succession
2) Development of the Roman Creed
3) Development of the NT Canon

Question 7

Dosetism

Answer 7

Jesus was God, but not human

Question 8

Apollinarianism

Answer 8

Jesus was God, but not fully human

Question 9

Ebionism

Answer 9

Jesus was fully human, but not divine

Question 10

Eutychianism

Answer 10

Jesus was neither fully human nor fully divine, but rather a mixture of humanity and divinity

Question 11

Nestorianism

Answer 11

Jesus had 2 natures - human and divine - and that 2 natures were entirely separate

Question 12

Modalistic Monarchianism

Answer 12

God variously manifested Himself as the Father, other times as the Son, and other times as the Holy Spirit.

God has simply revealed himself in 3 different modes and that he is not 3 persons