Midterm

Question 1

Missions and Processions

Answer 1

Missions (Incarnation and Pentecost) reveal processions (relationship of origin).

Question 2

Economic and Immanent Trinity

Answer 2

Rahner’s rule. Wrong because- dependent on creation

Question 3

Inward Acts

Answer 3

Divided. Generation and Procession as actions

Question 4

External Acts (and what’s under this)

Answer 4

Undivided. Everything God does He does as God. Missions.

Question 5

Communicable (knowable) attributes

Answer 5

Knowledge, Wisdom, Goodness, Sovereignty

Question 6

Incommunicable (unfathomable) Attributes

Answer 6

Independent (Rom. 11:36)
Unchangeable (James 1:17) Simple (i.e. not composite)
Eternal (transcends time) (Psalm 90:2)
Not confined (Omnipresent)

Question 7

Identity vs Difference

Answer 7

Ousia/Essence (only exists in the persons) vs Properties/Hypostases (relations of origin)

Question 8

Divine Simplicity

Answer 8

Everything that He is, He is fully

Question 9

Divine Oneness

Answer 9

Everything that is in God is God.

Question 10

Shema + verses

Answer 10

Oneness. Same as Trinitarian Oneness (Deut. 6:4) (1 Tim. 6:15)

Question 11

What’s the deal w Revelation and Attestation?

Answer 11

We need both. Revelation- God made known through the Missions, etc.
Attestation- Scripture.

Question 12

Symbolic vs Analogical vs Ectypal

Answer 12

Symbolic: Placeholder for different thing, Ectypal: impression, Analogical: containing vital similarity.

Question 13

What can we say of Father, Son, and Spirit?

Answer 13

The revealed names are expressed interpretations of the missions,which in turn reveal the processions

Question 14

Transcendence vs Immanence

Answer 14

Incommunicable captures God’s Transcendence/Immanence,
Communicable captures God’s Economic Missions

Question 15

Knowable and Fathomable

Answer 15

God’s Communicable Attributes can be known (experienced) but not understood fully.

Question 16

Distinguishing Personal Properties: Father
(verse)

Answer 16

Unbegotteness, active generation, active Spiration
Eph. 3:14

Question 17

Distinguishing Personal Properties: Son

Answer 17

Eternal Begotteness, Passive Generation, Active Spiration
Hebrews 1, John 1

Question 18

Distinguishing Personal Properties: Spirit

Answer 18

Passive Spiration or Procession
John 15:26, Galatians 4:6

Question 19

What is God (q. 7)

Answer 19

God is a Spirit, in and of himself infinite in being, glory, blessedness, and perfection; all-sufficient (Oneness), eternal, unchangeable, incomprehensible (unfathomable), every where present, almighty, knowing all things, **most **wise, most holy, most just, most merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

Question 20

Are there more Gods than One (q. 8)

Answer 20

There is but one only, the living and true God.

Question 21

How many persons are there in the Godhead? (q. 9)

Answer 21

There be three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; although
distinguished by their personal properties.

Question 22

What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead? (q. 10)

Answer 22

It is proper to the Father to beget the Son, and to the Son to be begotten of the Father, and to the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son from all eternity

Question 23

What verses give us hints about Jesus

Answer 23

Daniel 7:13 and Psalm 110

Question 24

Trinity verse

Answer 24

Matthew 28

Question 25

What marks the distinction of persons and why can’t we say more?

Answer 25

The inward acts! (Of Procession and Generation) ((Filiation and Spiration)). Because incommunicability is at the heart of personhood

Question 26

What is Trinitarian Theology’s overall orienting concern?

Answer 26

What the missions reveal about God

Question 27

What does it mean to be a person of the Trinity?

Answer 27

The term person has come to mean self-existence and rationality

Question 28

What is q. 7

Answer 28

What is God

Question 29

What is q. 8

Answer 29

Are there more Gods than 1

Question 30

Transcendent vs immanent

Answer 30

Far but near. We cant have immanent without transcendent