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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 communicable | The characterstics that we too possess: Ontological Attrbutes, Spirt, Invisable, Mental Attbutes, Purpose attbutes |
| incommunicable | Charactertics God doesn't /can't share with us, independent, immutable, etrnal, omnipresent, unified |
| deism | creator, but uncaring and/or uninvolved with creation and transecendence emphasized over immanence |
| panetheism | God is interdependent with creation, God cannot be God without creation and immanence with empahized over transendence |
| pantheism | God is creation and immanece without transedence |
| Constanine | become Emperor in 305 and called for the council to meet |
| Arius | an Alexandrian bishop declared a heretric. Jesus was not fully God, was the first/greatest create being, was of a different nature than God, was not eternal or ominpotent |
| Eusebius | bishop of Nicomedia; friend to Arius |
| Alexander | bishop to Arius in Alexandia. Called a assembly of churchmen who condemned the teaching of Arius and excommunicated Arius |
| Athanasius | advisor to Alexander and succeeded him as bishop of Alexandria. maintained the orthdox position, despite multiple excommuications and reinstatment. |
| Universal or general divine revelation | knowledge of/about God which is available to all people all times nature. humanity- rationality, morality, spiruality, relational. brings awareness of God but is not redempive. God exisit God personal We aren't God we fall short |
| Paricular or specfic divine revelation | direct disclouse about God's charachter- History, scripture divine speech, incarnation. |
| Both-and -or Vs either-or | great tradion, eastren orthodox- roman catholic- protestant, lack of reflection on beliefs and the rest of life, feeling & subjective experince w/o trump inttellect |
| belief | mental assent to truth claim |
| doctrine | a belief of set of beliefs that are examined, reflected upon, and affirmed as true in a formal way by an organized community of beleiveres. |
| theology | the process of devloping, constructing, and reconstruting doctrine |
| dogma | required doctine which cannot be question without serious repercussion |
| heretical doctrine & beliefs | rejected by Christanity |
| heresy | beliefs condsidered incompatiable with Christanity depite a " Christian" label |
| in or out set | boundary identification & maintence, exclusion |
| center set | held together by the core belief, boundaries matter less than center. ackwonledge that few are perfectly "centered" |
| Diocletion | emperor from 284-305. Divided Roman Empire into 4 jurisdiction- moving his court form Rome to Nicmedia. |
| 303 | launched a vicious persecution of Christians throughout the Empire |
| Docetism (Gnostic): | Christ only appeared to be human and fleshly, but was in fact only spiritual |
| Adoptionism: | Christ was only human, but a special human "adopted" by God as his special prophet or "son." Christ as unique, but not divine |
| Arianism | (similar to adoptionism) Christ as God's first and greatest creation; not God and not equal to God. |
| Apollinarianism | Christ was God on the inside and human on the outside. Two natures, but not two whole & integrated natures |
| Nestorianism: | Christ was of two natures Not integrated; at times separate |
| Eutychianism or Monophysitism | Christ theoretically had a human nature but it was dominated by his divinity |
| Modalism | denied God is three persons |
| Subordinationism | denied that each person of the Trinity is fully God |
| Arianism: | God's first and greatest creature |
| Adoptionism | Christ was created, but "adopted" by God |
| Tritheism or Polytheism | denied that there is one God |
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