DTS ST5102 Final Exam Study Guide
Adoptionism - correct answer ✔✔-denies personal distinctiveness of son & HS from Father
-son completely submissive to father
-father just adopted the son
-only at resurrection is Jesus considered Lord
Arianism - correct answer ✔✔-Jesus was first created being
-Jesus is a god
-Jesus = homoiousia’s
-JW, Mor
Chalcedonian Creed (Definitio Fidei)/Council (451) - correct answer ✔✔-clarified Jesus has same divine
nature as God, same human nature (w/o sin) as rest of us
-hypostatic union
Communicable Attributes - correct answer ✔✔Aspects of God's character that he shares or
"communicates" with us.
Incommunicable Attributes - correct answer ✔✔Aspects of God's character that God does not share
with us.
Divinization, Theosis - correct answer ✔✔-affirms believers are to "participate in the divine nature" (2Pe
1:4), infused by the divine presence, hence becoming godly, godlike, gods and God by grace.
-"Christian deification" to the penetration of the divine energies,
-distinguishing between the absolute Trinitarian persons and the divine nature that infuses the believer.
Docetism - correct answer ✔✔-Gnostic
- Jesus = divine emanation but not truly human.
, -Matter is intrinsically evil.
-When Jesus walked on the sand he left no footprints
-New Age, some Spiritism
Ebionism - correct answer ✔✔-2C Jewish sect
-Jesus = prophet, not God
- Islam, universalism
eternal generation of the Son - correct answer ✔✔- eternal generation of the Son from the Father, as an
expression of Ps 2:7 ("today I have begotten thee") Gk. monogenes (trad. "only begotten"; lit. "one and
only"). Some question the exegetical bases of eternal generation; others see it as broadly expressing the
ontological relations of the Son and the Father.
Eternal Procession of the Spirit - correct answer ✔✔(Gk. ekporeuomai, Jn 15:26; Lat. processio, "to
emanate from another") In Trinitarian theology, as the Son is eternally generated from the Father, so the
Holy Spirit eternally comes forth (proceeds) from the Father—"and [in Western theology] the Son" (Lat.
filioque).
Eutychianism - correct answer ✔✔- each nature of Christ absorbed the characteristics of the other: the
human became divine and the divine human.
Filioque - correct answer ✔✔The Latin word meaning "and from the Son" added by the West to the
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed at the Council of Toledo (589) to express the double procession of the
Holy Spirit from the Father and from the Son.
homoousios vs. homoiousios - correct answer ✔✔Homoousios: of the same substance
Homoiousios: of similar substance
homoousios - correct answer ✔✔Greek word meaning "of one and the same substance or being" as
contrasted to homoiousios ("of a similar substance or being") as applied to the Son's divine nature in
relation to that of the Father.
Adoptionism - correct answer ✔✔-denies personal distinctiveness of son & HS from Father
-son completely submissive to father
-father just adopted the son
-only at resurrection is Jesus considered Lord
Arianism - correct answer ✔✔-Jesus was first created being
-Jesus is a god
-Jesus = homoiousia’s
-JW, Mor
Chalcedonian Creed (Definitio Fidei)/Council (451) - correct answer ✔✔-clarified Jesus has same divine
nature as God, same human nature (w/o sin) as rest of us
-hypostatic union
Communicable Attributes - correct answer ✔✔Aspects of God's character that he shares or
"communicates" with us.
Incommunicable Attributes - correct answer ✔✔Aspects of God's character that God does not share
with us.
Divinization, Theosis - correct answer ✔✔-affirms believers are to "participate in the divine nature" (2Pe
1:4), infused by the divine presence, hence becoming godly, godlike, gods and God by grace.
-"Christian deification" to the penetration of the divine energies,
-distinguishing between the absolute Trinitarian persons and the divine nature that infuses the believer.
Docetism - correct answer ✔✔-Gnostic
- Jesus = divine emanation but not truly human.
, -Matter is intrinsically evil.
-When Jesus walked on the sand he left no footprints
-New Age, some Spiritism
Ebionism - correct answer ✔✔-2C Jewish sect
-Jesus = prophet, not God
- Islam, universalism
eternal generation of the Son - correct answer ✔✔- eternal generation of the Son from the Father, as an
expression of Ps 2:7 ("today I have begotten thee") Gk. monogenes (trad. "only begotten"; lit. "one and
only"). Some question the exegetical bases of eternal generation; others see it as broadly expressing the
ontological relations of the Son and the Father.
Eternal Procession of the Spirit - correct answer ✔✔(Gk. ekporeuomai, Jn 15:26; Lat. processio, "to
emanate from another") In Trinitarian theology, as the Son is eternally generated from the Father, so the
Holy Spirit eternally comes forth (proceeds) from the Father—"and [in Western theology] the Son" (Lat.
filioque).
Eutychianism - correct answer ✔✔- each nature of Christ absorbed the characteristics of the other: the
human became divine and the divine human.
Filioque - correct answer ✔✔The Latin word meaning "and from the Son" added by the West to the
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed at the Council of Toledo (589) to express the double procession of the
Holy Spirit from the Father and from the Son.
homoousios vs. homoiousios - correct answer ✔✔Homoousios: of the same substance
Homoiousios: of similar substance
homoousios - correct answer ✔✔Greek word meaning "of one and the same substance or being" as
contrasted to homoiousios ("of a similar substance or being") as applied to the Son's divine nature in
relation to that of the Father.
