Part 05 theology

Apollinarianism

A fourth-century view that said that Jesus had a human body but not a human soul. His soul was divine.

Nestorianism

A heresy that split the God-man into two distinct persons, one divine and one human.

Docetism

An early Christian view that Jesus's physical nature was simply an illusion, not a reality.

Ebionism

An early Jewish-Christian heresy that Jesus was an ordinary human in whom the power of God was present and active to an unusual degree.

The Council of Nicaea in 325 condemned

Arianism

Kenoticism

Based on the Greek word for "to empty" (Phil. 2:6), what Jesus emptied himself of in the incarnation was the form of God, laying aside his distinctly divine attributes.

The church council in 451 that formulated the classic statement of the doctrine of two natures in one person, the standard for all of Christendom, was the Council of

Chalcedon.

Propitiation means specifically that

Christ's death was an appeasement of God's wrath against sin.

Arianism

Holds that Jesus is a created being, although the first and highest of the beings.

The Socinian theory of the atonement holds that

Jesus's death provides an example and inspiration of the total love of God we must display in order to experience salvation.

The Council of Ephesus in 431condemned the doctrine of

Nestorius

The theologian whose Christology grew out of his reluctance to refer to Mary as theotokos was

Nestorius

The phrase that indicates Jesus's claim that he was a unique son of the Father distinct from other humans is

Not: "son of man"

Eutychianism

View that Jesus, after his birth, possessed only one nature, that of God made flesh and become human

As a background for Christ's atonement, sacrifices in the Old Testament were necessary to work a reformation in the sinner and to deter the sinner or others from committing further sin.

false

In the incarnation, Christ gave up his deity in order to become truly human.

false

Scripture teaches that the atonement was the payment of a ransom to Satan that ensured his defeat and the triumph of God.

false

The Hebrew word most commonly used in the Old Testament for the various types of atonement is kāphar, which literally means "to remove."

false

The final revelatory work of Jesus took place in his pronouncements just before his ascension to the Father.

false

We see in Jesus no uniquely human emotions since all of his reactions recorded in Scripture are those found in God.

false

Hugo Grotius was the major proponent of the

governmental theory of atonement

The moral influence theory of the atonement holds that

human attitudes keep peopleapart from God, but awareness of the love of God demonstrated in Christ's death serves to heal our ignorance and fear of God.

The Council of Constantinople in 381 condemned

not: arianism

Christ's rule in not exclusively future since there is evidence that Christ is ruling today.

true

Jesus could exercise divine attributes only in dependence on the Father and in connection with possession of a fully human nature.

true

One indication of Jesus having a material body after the resurrection is that Jesus ate.

true

One verification of Jesus's deity was that he identified angels as "his angels."

true

The sending of the Holy Spirit after Jesus's ascension was essential, for whereas Jesus could work with the disciples only through external teaching and example, the Holy Spirit could work within them.

true

The view of the atonement that is best represented today by the Unitarians is the Socinian theory.

true

The "virgin birth" of Jesus might be more accurately referred to as a "virgin conception."

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