Question | Answer |
Yeshua | Hebrew name for Jesus; means "God saves"; "Joshua" in English; "Iesus" in Greek and Latin, "Jésus" in French, "Jesus" in English |
Adoptionism | a human prophet was adopted by God as His son, that is, Jesus was a favored son of God; at that time, all men were considered "sons of God"; "raised up" doesn't necessarily mean resurrection |
Doceticism | Greek for "to seem as; appear"; Logos only appeared to be human; form of Gnosticism (material things are evil; knowledge saves) |
soteriology | study of salvation |
Ignatius of Antioch | combated Doceticism; said it makes God a deceiver because he is not really saving us |
Eunomius | student of Arius; said God took the soul out of Jesus in the womb and put in logos |
salvation | "union with God" |
Athanasius | combated Arianism and Apollonarianism saying "That which is not assumed (appropriated) cannot be saved."; "God became man so that man might become God" |
sin | separation from God |
Apollonarianism | said that Jesus didn't have a soul because he was without sin; Logos is God; Jesus is fully God, not fully human |
Arianism | Jesus was neither human nor divine; God created Logos in a soulless human body |
Nestorianism | believed that Jesus had 2 natures (human & divine) in 2 persons (Jesus & Logos) |
Theophoros | Greek for "God bearer (carrier)" |
hypostatic union | "subsistence (manner of existence) union"; Jesus was 1 person with 2 natures (human & divine) |
Messiah | "the Anointed One" |
Christ | Greek for "Messiah" |
mesites | Greek for "middle party; middle man" |
methorian | Greek for "midway point; bridge; boundary" |
apokatallasso | Greek for "reconciliation" |
principle of participation | if anything participates in the reality of another, then it is raised to a higher level and shares in its properties |
theosis | Greek term saying that God's Divine Energies transform us to share in God's glory and become partaker in the Divine Nature |
deification | the mystery of sharing in God's nature |
Monotheletism | "one will"; Jesus only had one will (God's will) |
Monophysitism | "one nature"; Jesus starts as both fully human and fully divine, but ends as only fully divine |
Communication of Idioms | the human and divine natures communicate in concert |
Leo of Rome | wrote "Leo's tome" which talks about the communication of idioms |
Gregory of Nyssa | used a model consciousness ("with knowledge") as Jesus grows, his human consciousness grows and comes to know God's consciousness within himself; said "As I use my own free choice, I become my own father and mother" (self-actualization) |
Gregory of Nazianzus | said God had an experiential knowledge of love through the Incarnation |
exultet | "O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam that gained for us a redeemer"; Latin view |
Anselm | asked "Cur Deus homo?" ("Why did God become man?"); said we are in the debt of sin and atonement is needed |
divinization | the process of Theosis; the image of God is the "being" and the likeness of God is the "doing" |
authority | "exousia" ("out of being"); an internal source |
power | dynamic; an external source |
free choice | "aut exousia" ("self authority"); allows us to be in the image of God; allows for authentic love between us and God |
self-actualization | "aut éxousia" (self out of being); we can fashion ourselves |
predestination | there is a place/goal set by God, i.e. heaven; we still have free choice |
predetermination | God has determined everything, i.e. who is going to heaven, and who is going to hell; we do not have free choice |
myth | a natural means of perception |
Church | "ekklesia" ("called out of" the world to assemble) |
catholic | "universal; worldwide" |
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