DTS ST5102 - FINAL EXAM
Adoptionism - correct answer ✔✔Jesus was adopted by heavenly Spirit.
Jes made Lord of Church at resurrection
MOnarchian Views
Chalcedonian Creed (Definito Fidei) - correct answer ✔✔- Affirmed Jesus divine nature the same as God
(homoousios)
- Affirmed Jesus Human nature same as ours in every way except sin
- Definito Fidei - Faithful definition
- Union of two natures called the Hypostatic Union
- 451
Communicable and Incommunicable Attributes - correct answer ✔✔Communicable attributes are those
attributes we can share with God but only to certain extent.
Incommunicable attributes are those that God alone possess.
Divinization, Theosis - correct answer ✔✔1. Based on 2 Peter 1:4.
2. The participation of the believer in the life of the Godhead.
3. The believer receives something from the Godhead without diminishing the Trinity's uniqueness.
4. In the East, the communion of the believer with the Holy Spirit is at the very center of Christian
theology and Christian experience.
Docetism - correct answer ✔✔Heresy that taught that Jesus only seemed to be human but was
completely divine.
Assumes deity can have no direct contact with physical world because matter is inherently evil, so Jesus
cannot be truly human only in apperance
, Ebionism - correct answer ✔✔- Jesus merely man that was a prophet or divinely anointed
- Deny virgin birth
- Reject Paul's writings - adhering strictly to Jewish law
Montanism - correct answer ✔✔- A movement started by Montanus
- believed a new, heavenly kingdom was imminent.
- Montanus required complete obedience, celibacy, prolonged fasting, and heavy financial giving
- Marked by prophecy, tongues, and miraculous phenomena
Eternal Generation of the Son - correct answer ✔✔used to describe the relationship between the Father
and the Son, wherein the Father is said to "beget" the Son eternally; speaks to the Son's relationship to
the Father, not to his origin
Eternal procession of the Spirit - correct answer ✔✔- Father is the eternal origin of the son and the
Spirit,
- all three are equally God and glorified
Eutychianism - correct answer ✔✔human nature of Christ was overcome by the divine or that Christ had
a human nature but it was unlike the rest of humanity
- Monophysitism
Filioque - correct answer ✔✔- Spirit proceeded from the Father AND the Son
- one point that divided Eastern Orthodoxy from Roman Catholicism
homoousios vs. homoiousios - correct answer ✔✔same nature/being vs "like being." Christ is "like the
father," but not the "same as the father."
Immanence vs. Transcendence - correct answer ✔✔Immanence - God's presence in the world sustaining
all created things
Adoptionism - correct answer ✔✔Jesus was adopted by heavenly Spirit.
Jes made Lord of Church at resurrection
MOnarchian Views
Chalcedonian Creed (Definito Fidei) - correct answer ✔✔- Affirmed Jesus divine nature the same as God
(homoousios)
- Affirmed Jesus Human nature same as ours in every way except sin
- Definito Fidei - Faithful definition
- Union of two natures called the Hypostatic Union
- 451
Communicable and Incommunicable Attributes - correct answer ✔✔Communicable attributes are those
attributes we can share with God but only to certain extent.
Incommunicable attributes are those that God alone possess.
Divinization, Theosis - correct answer ✔✔1. Based on 2 Peter 1:4.
2. The participation of the believer in the life of the Godhead.
3. The believer receives something from the Godhead without diminishing the Trinity's uniqueness.
4. In the East, the communion of the believer with the Holy Spirit is at the very center of Christian
theology and Christian experience.
Docetism - correct answer ✔✔Heresy that taught that Jesus only seemed to be human but was
completely divine.
Assumes deity can have no direct contact with physical world because matter is inherently evil, so Jesus
cannot be truly human only in apperance
, Ebionism - correct answer ✔✔- Jesus merely man that was a prophet or divinely anointed
- Deny virgin birth
- Reject Paul's writings - adhering strictly to Jewish law
Montanism - correct answer ✔✔- A movement started by Montanus
- believed a new, heavenly kingdom was imminent.
- Montanus required complete obedience, celibacy, prolonged fasting, and heavy financial giving
- Marked by prophecy, tongues, and miraculous phenomena
Eternal Generation of the Son - correct answer ✔✔used to describe the relationship between the Father
and the Son, wherein the Father is said to "beget" the Son eternally; speaks to the Son's relationship to
the Father, not to his origin
Eternal procession of the Spirit - correct answer ✔✔- Father is the eternal origin of the son and the
Spirit,
- all three are equally God and glorified
Eutychianism - correct answer ✔✔human nature of Christ was overcome by the divine or that Christ had
a human nature but it was unlike the rest of humanity
- Monophysitism
Filioque - correct answer ✔✔- Spirit proceeded from the Father AND the Son
- one point that divided Eastern Orthodoxy from Roman Catholicism
homoousios vs. homoiousios - correct answer ✔✔same nature/being vs "like being." Christ is "like the
father," but not the "same as the father."
Immanence vs. Transcendence - correct answer ✔✔Immanence - God's presence in the world sustaining
all created things
