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| early greek father of the church who served as a bishop, theologian and apologist and who wrote against the gnostic heresies of the day. best known for proposing the doctrine of recapitulation-suggestian that christ came to sum up (recapitulate) all that humans were meant to be |
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| taught arianism- early heretical teaching about the identity of jesus. said that because God is one that jesus was one jesus could not possibly be god. said that jesus was fully human only and was the greatest creation of god |
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| teaching of 4th century bishop of laodicea appolinarius-declared that in his incarnation christ took on a human body and soul but not a human mind or spirit he said that jesus did not have free will but a divine mind |
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| early church apologist, theologian and bishop of alexandria. greatest contribution to christian theology was his uncompromising stance against popular arian teaching of his day |
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| His argument follows from the idea that God is the object of God’s own self-knowledge, and revelation in the Bible means the self-unveiling to humanity of the God who cannot be discovered by humanity simply through its own efforts. was a Swiss Reformed theologian |
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| council of chalcedon (451 ad) |
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| focused on the relationship of christ's humanity to his divinity |
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| school that practiced scriptural interpretation and emphasized literal interpretation of the text |
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| school that taught deeper more spiritual or meaningful things that were not as clear in the text |
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theism-system of belief that pre supposes the reality of God as the foundational concept informing all other beliefs
monotheism- belief in one god |
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| a belief system about God or ultimate reality |
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| process by which God discloses the divine nature and the mystery of the divine will and purpose to human beings and to the corpus of truth disclosed |
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| God's revelation in Jesus Christ as the world |
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| 4 sources on which weslyan theology is constructed and defended. scripture, reason, tradition and experience. |
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| scripture principle/ sola scriptura |
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| the bible read and understood as the will of God. |
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| rule of faith/ rule of tradition |
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faith- belief and trust
tradition- revelation of God made known to the people. also creeds |
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| first few centuries of the church after the writing of the new testament. started after apostles death and last til the middle ages |
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| theological formulation that attempts to provide a summary statement of the teaching of scripture. |
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| summary statement of the christian faith |
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| right praise or right belief |
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| lex orandi est lex credendi |
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| ranslates roughly into the law/rule of praying is the law/rule of believing.” |
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| process of teaching the basic christian beliefs and the contents of the scripture to a child raised in the church or to a new convert |
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| son of God. perfect sacrifice son of man |
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christ-means messiah and annointed one
christology- study of answering two questions 1. who is jesus 2. what is the nature and significance of what he accomplished in the incarnation |
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| jesus as the center of christian theology |
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| hebrew meaning annointed one |
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| God's deliverance for human beings from sin |
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| elevation of a human ruler to the status of a deity |
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| knowledge and understanding |
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| the word or written language |
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| what jesus called himself most often |
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| in jesus the word of god appeared in human form |
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| coming or arrival of jesus |
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| jesus is human and divine |
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| jesus is made in 2 natures both human and divine but one |
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| hypostasis/ hypostatic union |
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| three persons of the trinity but united as one |
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| the son derives his substance from the father |
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| belief that christ did not take on human state himself but humanity in general |
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| communication of properties ( communicatio idiomatum) |
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| communication of attributes and whatever is true of jesus humanity is true of his deity |
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| communication of operations ( communicatio operationum) |
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| work of his human nature is at same time work of his divine nature |
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| self emptying of christ into the incarnation |
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| any teaching contrary to scripture |
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| early greek religious movement means knowledge tend to emphasize spiritual realm over material |
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| christ operated solely on divine mind |
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| condemned and said that jesus two natures were seperable |
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| says that christ has only one nature and that is divine. |
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| said that jesus was fully god but only appeared to be human. |
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| because God is one that jesus was one jesus could not possibly be god. said that jesus was fully human only and was the greatest creation of god |
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