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Jesus is...
- Fully Human
- Fully Divine
- One Person
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Heresy
an inference about Jesus that compromises His unity, divinity, and/or oneness
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Heretic
someone who is aware that their inferences compromise Jesus' unity/divinity/oneness and proceeds in believing they are correct
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Jesus' Humanity
- Sin had a particular beginning and became universal with Adam
- Redemption has a particular beginning and becomes universal through Jesus
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Jesus' Divinity
- Prooftexts: single verses that prove divinity
- Narrative Roles/Acts: forgiver, judge, healer, etc.
- Pervasive worship using the same texts that we use to worship God
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Antioch
- Adoptionist Heresies
- Word-Man christology
- compromises Jesus' divinity
- adoptionism, ebionism, neostorianism
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Alexandria
- word-flesh christology
- Docetism heresies
- compromises Jesus' humanity
- Docetism, monophysitism, apollonarianism, arianism
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Chalcedon Quote
In Christ, divinity and humanity are "without confusion, change, division, or separation'
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Personal Faculties
- Metaphysical Dualism: human is two parts soul+body
- Our Human Appearance
- Powers of Reasoning or Speaking (Athanasius)
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Reductive Physicalism
we are chemicals and nothing more
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Nonreductive Physicalism
- there is no physical element of soul,but the atoms within us act as more complex parts
- i.e. the heart is a bunch of atoms but it acts like a heart
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Social Faculties
do we image God as single people or as humanity as a whole?
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Official Faculties
- Vocation: a covenant of cultivation
- Israel's covenant relationship with God
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Theology Definition
Stan Grenz: systematic reflection on, and articulation of, the fundamental beliefs we share as followers of Jesus Christ
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Canons of Hippolytus
- Stage 1: up to 3 years, catechism, sponsored by more seasoned believers (God Parents), exorcism (cast out demons), church attendance, prayer, intercession
- Stage 2: 40 days of lent, instruction, prayer, fasting
- Stage 3: Apotaxis (turning away from false) Syntaxis (turning toward truth), Immersion thrice in holy water
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Discipleship in Paradigmatic Practice
- From the Father: not just those who call me lord but those who do the will of my father will enter heaven. praying lord's prayer, 10 commandments, beatitudes
- Death in the Son: we are part of the son's project to bring about new creation. worship, discipleship, service
- Resurrection by the Holy Spirit: cardinal virtues: patience, kindness, etc. Theological virtues: faith hope love
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Ebionism
- Jesus is a prophet appointed by God but not divine
- Jesus as a teacher
- Unitarianism
- WWJD?
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Adoptionism
- Jesus received His divinity at baptism
- this means that he received divinity because of good favor and that is how we receive grace
- Jesus as the perfect Son
- Mormonism
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Neostorianism
- Mary only mothered the human nature of Jesus
- this says that His divinity and humanity can be pulled apart
- If mary didn't bear God, neither did the cross
- Churches of the East
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Docetism
- The human Jesus was merely an illusion
- Gnosticism
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Monophysitism
- Human and Divinity are fused into one
- suggests that they are similar enough to be fused like an alloy
- hot iron
- Sufism: they want to be fused into God
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Apollinarianism
- human flesh but divine spirit/mind
- suggests that only the human corpse was resurrected and not the human spirit
- some evangelicals
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Arianism
- Jesus is created
- this makes Jesus in second rank to God and with lesser power
- Jehovah's Witnesses
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Ten Commadments
- 1. I am the lord your God
- 2. No false idols
- 3. No Lord's name in vain
- 4. Honor the Sabbath
- 5. Honor mother and father
- 6. No Murder
- 7. No Adultery
- 8. No Stealing
- 9. No lying
- 10. No coveting
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