Lesson 4 Flashcards
(9 cards)
Which errors are avoided when we give Christ the full range of human emotions?
- Stoic apatheia - apathetic, not feeling, stoic, nothing effected Him
- Assigning every human pathos to Jesus - Every human emotion; crasly human
How does Heb 2:5-18 show the rationale for the incarnation?
Rationale for the Incarnation - Hebrews 2:5-18
* The Son became a man to fulfill God’s original plan for humanity
* Quotation of Psalm 8 - Original creation
* Sees Psalm 8 through Daniel 7 (Specific verses 9ff)
* Restoration of Adamic rule
* Restores the fallen kingdom
* The Son came to bring many sons to glory
* Roots in the Adamic mission
* Creates many image-bearers
* The Son became a man to be a merciful and faithful high priest
Define “nature” and “person”
- Nature: “denotes the sum-total of all the essential qualities of a thing, that which makes it what it is” (Berkhof, 321)
- Person: “denotes subsistence, suppositum, an individual thing, and intelligent self-subsistent thing (Muller, Dictionary, 264).
What are the four propositions of the hypostatic union?
- There is but one person in the Mediator, though he has two natures
- The Logos assumed a human nature, not a person
- The human nature of Christ is both personal and complete
- The two natures are distinct and not confused
Give one Scriptural proof for the hypostatic union
- John’s Gospel (Jn 1:1-2; Jn 1:14)
- Philippians 2:6-7
* Express mention of both natures
* Paul does not say that the divine changes - 1 Timothy 3:16
- Romans 1:3-4
What are three “communications” of natures?
- The communicatio idiomatum = the sharing of properties, or attributes
* Each nature retains its own attributes without mixture or confusion - The communicatio operationium = the sharing of work or operations
- The communication charismatum = the Father adorned the human nature of Christ with many gifts and graces through the outpouring of the Spirit
Define the extra calvinisticum
- “The Calvinistic extra”—even in the incarnation the divine nature is beyond or of the human nature
- Even in the Eucharist - Christ’s divine nature is omnipresent
- Lutheran claims that the divine nature shares its omnipresent attribute with the finite human nature.
- Calvin says no, the divine nature can be omnipresent while the human nature is not
- “The Calvinistic extra”—even in the incarnation the divine nature is beyond or of the human nature
- Contra the Lutheran view that Christ’s physicality takes properties from the divine
- The human and divine natures are united but remain distinct
- “extra Catholicum”: professed by Athanasius and Augustine
What is the Lutheran doctrine of the communication idiomatum? What is the Reformed answer to this doctrine?
The Lutheran Doctrine of the communication idiomatum
1. The ubiquity (omnipresence) of Christ’s body (Formula of Concord, xi-xii)
1. Omnipresence of the human nature of Christ.
1. Human nature takes on the divine nature of Omnipresence.
1. Both reformed camp and Lutheran camp accused each other of Christological heresies
1. Reform position
* You are mixing the two natures. (Monophysitism)
* We must stay aligned with Chalcedon: subtraction by addition
* Takes on the form of a servant - thus emptying Himself
* The divine does not take on human
- It admits the communication of the properties of one nature to the whole person, but denies the communication of the properties of one nature to the other (Schaff vol II)
- Each nature doing what is property to itself - yet what is natural by one nature is sometimes attributed to another nature. WCF VIII.vii
What is the doctrine of Kenotic Christology?
Kenotic Christology?
* “Emptying of himself” of his divine attributes
* Loss of his essential attributes?
* Subversive to the immutability of God
