Jesus Christ

Question 1

Adoptionism

Answer 1

Jesus was adopted by God when baptised by John

Question 2

Docetism

Answer 2

Jesus is God but looks human

Question 3

Arianism

Answer 3

God created Jesus so they are not co-equal, God is more important

Question 4

What happened in the Council of Chalcedon?

Answer 4

The Hypostatic Union was founded: “truly God and truly man”

Question 5

How does John describe miracles?

Answer 5

“Signs” of Jesus’ divinity

Question 6

Mark 6

Answer 6

Jesus walks on water. “They were completely amazed, for they had not understood the loaves”

Question 7

John 9

Answer 7

Jesus heals the blind man. “Dost thou believe in the Son of God… it is he who talketh with thee”

Question 8

What does Rudolf Butman believe about the healing of the blind man?

Answer 8

It is a story of symbolic spiritual blindness not physical blindness

Question 9

High vs Low Christology

Answer 9

Jesus’ divinity vs Jesus’ humanity

Question 10

What does the CCC say about miracles?

Answer 10

“The signs worked by Jesus attest that the father had sent him”

Question 11

Who refers to Jesus as Son of God and who refers to him as Son of Man?

Answer 11

John: Son of God, M, M & L: Son of Man

Question 12

John 10:30 vs John 14:28

Answer 12

“I and my father are one” vs “My father is greater than I am”

Question 13

John 8:58 (eternal)

Answer 13

“Before Abraham was, I am”

Question 14

What does Paul say in Corinthians 1 about resurrection?

Answer 14

“If Christ has not been raised your faith is futile; you are still in your sins”

Question 15

Raymond Brown

Answer 15

“A very special to God that is part of his identity & status”

Question 16

William Channing

Answer 16

“Infinite confusion” - Jesus cannot be God and man

Question 17

John Hick

Answer 17

“The circle is also a square” + theocentric not christocentric

Question 18

Wolfhart Pannenberg

Answer 18

Jesus’ resurrection is central proof of divinity

Question 19

N.T Wright

Answer 19

“I cannot explain the rise of early Christianity unless Jesus again, leaving an empty tomb behind him”

Question 20

What does Islam teach about Jesus? What does CS Lewis say about this?

Answer 20

He is a messenger of God. This is “patronising nonsense”

Question 21

What does Hick say we need to do about Jesus?

Answer 21

Demythologise him

Question 22

How do repentance and metanoia link?

Answer 22

Metanoia: whole change of life

Question 23

The Prodigal Son

Answer 23

“My son and is alive again; he was lost and is found” Luke 15

Question 24

Sermon on the Mount

Answer 24

Inner Purity
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets, I have to come fulfill them”
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”
“Turn the other cheek”

Question 25

Mark 2 (sabbath)

Answer 25

“The sabbath was made for mankind not mankind for the sabbath”

Question 26

Wittgenstein

Answer 26

Jesus’ language functioned as a way of living

Question 27

Camilo Torres Restrepo

Answer 27

“If Jesus were alive today he would be a guerillo”

Question 28

Gutierrez (father of libertarian theology)

Answer 28

“Do not limit to a purely spiritual plane”

Question 29

Desmond Tutu

Answer 29

“I am confused which Bible people are reading when the say religion & politics do not mix”

Question 30

2 example of Jesus as a political liberator

Answer 30

The Bleeding Woman (Mark 5) & Good Samaritan (Luke 16)

Question 31

EP Sanders on uniqueness

Answer 31

“History has difficulty with the category of unique”

Question 32

Macquarrie on uniqueness

Answer 32

We are all unique but Jesus’ whole life is unique: it impacts ‘the deepest level of conscience, summons us to authentic personal & communal existence”

Question 32

John Hick on uniqueness

Answer 32

Do not be exclusive: 3 men and elephant argument

Question 33

John 14

Answer 33

“I am the way, the truth and the life”