week 2: historical survey I-II

Question 1

Christ is a mere man; adopted by God at his baptism.

Answer 1

Adoptionism

Question 2

who founded adoptionism?

Answer 2

Cerinthus/the Ebionites

Question 3

Adoptionism spreads and becomes more well developed and well spread into the 3rd century and __________ becomes a central figure at this time

Answer 3

Paul of Samosata

Question 4

what does Unitarianism refer to?

Answer 4

denies the Trinity of Persons, holds that there not 3 persons in the 1 God

Question 5

what does Tritheism refer to?

Answer 5

holds that there are 3 distinct Persons in the Trinity, but holds they are not united

Question 6

what are two types of Trinitarian heresies?

Answer 6

Unitarianism and Tritheism

Question 7

What did Paul of Samosata mean when he used the word Homoousios?

Answer 7

“of the same person”

Question 8

what did Nicea mean when using the word Homoousious?

Answer 8

“of the same substance”, this is how the Church refers to homoousious

Question 9

Paul of Samosata transmit his view on subordinationism to _____ (who is teacher of ____)

Answer 9

Lucian, Arius

Question 10

due to ________, the word _____ was prohibited

Answer 10

Paul of Samosata’s misuse and misleadings, homoousious

Question 11

the prohibition of homoousios to mean _____________ still exists today

Answer 11

of the same person

Question 12

heresy wherein Word is another name for the Father who becomes the Son by the Incarnation and suffers for mankind

Answer 12

patripassionism

Question 13

Sabellianism has its roots in _________

Answer 13

patripassionism

Question 14

God is one person, Father/Son/HS are three ways that God expresses Himself in the economy of human salvation

Answer 14

Sabellianism

Question 15

Denial of any distinction in God and asserted that in God there is only one hypostasis and three masks/roles/modes

Answer 15

Modalism (includes Patripassionism/Sabellianism)

Question 16

What did Origen teach?

Answer 16

1) 3 hypostases (aka 3 individuals) (good)
2) eternal generation of the Son (good)
3) homoousios (good)
4) hierarchy, inequality in Trinity (not good)

Question 17

Jesus (is/is not) a creature

Answer 17

is NOT

Question 18

Jesus was __________

Answer 18

begotten, not made

Question 19

unity of substance, trinity of Persons is the terminology asserted by _______

Answer 19

Tertullian

Question 20

What did Arius teach?

Answer 20

a) God’s substance = incommunicable.
b) The Word = an intermediary
c) The Word = created; “begotten” means “adopted”
d) The Holy Spirit is the first creature created by the Word.

Question 21

Arius equates being begotten with _______

Answer 21

being created

Question 22

Scripture testifies that Jesus is __________

Answer 22

begotten not made (not created, eternal)

Question 23

In the Nicene Creed, the Church dogmatically defines:

Answer 23

1) Jesus is God and
2) The Second Divine Person proceeds from the First Divine Person by Generation, and therefore is related to Him as Son to a Father (De Fide)

Question 24

God the Father/Son/Holy Spirit ____

Answer 24

is ONE nature (not three)

Question 25

Macedonianism/Pneumatomachi asserted that _____________

Answer 25

the Holy Spirit is not God

Question 26

_______________ defended the divinity of the HS and his consubstantiality with the F. and the S.

Answer 26

Sts. Athanasius Basil, Gregory Nazianzus Gregory Nyssa and Didymus of Alexandri

Question 27

"ousia" can mean...

Answer 27

essence or person/rational nature

Question 28

Thus, God is “_________________”

Answer 28

one ousia (essence), and three hypostases (persons)

Question 29

The major contribution of the Cappadocian Fathers

Answer 29

honing in the Greek terminology

Question 30

The Cappadocian Fathers showed that to be begotten does not ______________

Answer 30

always entail being created.

Question 31

In the Creed of 381, the Church dogmatically defines:

Answer 31

1) The HS = God, and 2) In God there are two internal Divine Processions (De Fide)

Question 32

Pneumatomachianism was condemned 1) at the Synod of Alexandria (_____) by St. Athanasius 2) at Constantinople I (____) – Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan Creed: and 3) at the Roman Synod (_____) by Pope St. Damasus which condemned all ancient antitrinitarian errors, especially Macedonianism (vs. HS).

Answer 32

362, 381, 382

Question 33

In the Athanasian Creed (_______), the Church teaches: The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, but ___________

Answer 33

Quicumque, not through generation. (De fide)

Question 34

“perceived peculiarities” = ________

Answer 34

idiomata

Question 35

In the God-head, ___________ are undivided

Answer 35

nature and activity

Question 36

The Holy Spirit comes ____________, whereas the Son comes ________. This shows that ____________

Answer 36

from the Father through the Son, through the Father alone. There is something unique about the F/S/HS

Question 37

Only the Son _________

Answer 37

is begotten

Question 38

Only the Holy Spirit _____________

Answer 38

proceeds from the Father through the Son

Question 39

in the next life, do we see the Divine Essence?

Answer 39

Yes; note: Eastern Church Fathers would say we will not

Question 40

there are two types of temporal missions. what are they?

Answer 40

visible: Son = incarnation; the sending of the HS on Pentecost invisible: Indwelling of the Trinity in the souls of the just

Question 41

there are Eternal Processions. How many? what are they?

Answer 41

2; Son from the Father, Holy Spirit from the Father through the Son

Question 42

what proceeds is outside of the substance of its source.

Answer 42

external procession

Question 43

what proceeds remains within the very substance of its source.

Answer 43

internal procession

Question 44

the human internal processions of intellect and will are analogous to the divine processions of generation and spiration. Analogous b/c man = the image of God (precisely in his intellect and will).

Answer 44

psychological analogy

Question 45

Why can there only be 2 processions?

Answer 45

There are only 2 powers: intellectual, will

Question 46

The Son proceeds by _______

Answer 46

intellect

Question 47

The Holy Spirit proceeds by ________

Answer 47

will

Question 48

attributing to one Divine Person an action or characteristic that belongs to all three persons in common in order to highlight something truly

Answer 48

theory of attribution

Question 49

mutual indwelling (in Greek)

Answer 49

perichoresis

Question 50

mutual indwelling (in Latin)

Answer 50

circumincession