Christological Heresies Quiz

Eutychianism

aka Monophysites ("only/one"-"nature"), believe that a human could not be God, Christ can't have two natures

Modalism

believe that God is one, but He takes on three different forms or roles

Adoptionism

believe that God the Father made Jesus his Christ at his baptism (Jesus was adopted)

Docetism

believe that Jesus only appeared to have a body, that he was not really incarnate

Nestorianism

believe that Jesus was two distinct persons

Arianism

believe that the Son was created by the Father ("begotten")

Apollinarianism

believe that the Son/Logos "assumed" the body of Jesus (replaced the human soul, "Spacesuit Jesus")

Gnosticism

believe that... - Jesus is the revealer of knowledge - the physical is evil - the spiritual is good (dualism)

Eutychianism

error= Christ is not God and man

Arianism

error= Jesus is not true God

Adoptionism

error= Jesus is not true God (ad...)

Gnosticism

error= Jesus is not true man

Apollinarianism

error= Jesus is not true man (ap...)

Docetism

error= Jesus is not true man (d...)

Modalism

error= no "personal" distinction within the Trinity

Nestorianism

error= no union of natures

Gnosticism

focus is on freeing the divine "sparks"

Modalism

problem: Father is the Son and the Spirit, all of them are crucified but the Father doesn't suffer with the Son

Adoptionism

problem: Jesus was a special human being, but not divine ("Spider-Man Jesus")

Nestorianism

problem: atonement (if only man dies and not God, then forgiveness means nothing)

Gnosticism

problem: if Jesus is man, he is physical, which means he is evil (God wouldn't take on a physical nature)

Arianism

problem: the Son being "created" by the Father means he is a creature (not true God)

Eutychianism

problem: the human nature is absorbed into the divine nature (the human nature isn't independent of the divine nature)

Apollinarianism

problem: what Christ is not, is not redeemed (body but not soul, so soul is not redeemed)

Docetism

problem: what Christ is not, is not redeemed (if He isn't really human, then humans aren't saved)