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18 Cards in this Set
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Why did the word become flesh? (4)
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- to save us by reconciling us to God
- that we might know God's love - to be our model of holiness - to make us partakers of the divine nature? |
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what is the distinctive sign of the christian faith?
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mystery of the Incarnation
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Jesus two-fold nature
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true God and true man - fully both, but clear and distinct.
- not some confused mixture |
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the first heresies denied what about Christ's nature?
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gnostic docitism denied his humanity
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what heresy did the church condemn at the first ecumenical council? (which was which council?)
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Arianism - "Jesus was 'created'"
325 - council of Nicea |
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what heresy did the church condemn at the third ecumenical council? (and which was which council?)
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- Nestorian heresy - "Christ was a normal human person, whose body God inhabited"
- council of Ephesus - 431 - thus, this council declared that Mary was the Mother of God |
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What council declared that Mary truly is the Mother of God?
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council of Ephesus - 431
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arianism =
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"Jesus was created"
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council of Nicea - 325
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Nestorian heresy =
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"Jesus was a normal human person, whose body God inhabited."
- refuted at? |
council of Ephesus - 431
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which word does the church use to describe the unity by which the word of God unites a human nature to himself?
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hypostatic union
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In his soul as in his body, christ thus....
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expresses humanly the divine ways of the trinity
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heresy - Christ's divine soul "overtook" his human soul
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refutation - christ has a rational, human soul
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christ's two wills - opposed?
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no.
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will =
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the power within us to choose the good
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second council of Nicea - date? - re:?
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787
- affirming that Christ's body reveals the divine - affirming icons to be legit |
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was Mary free?
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yes - totally - b/c she had no original sin
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Theotokos =
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Mother of God
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Why does Mary's virginity make sense? (5)
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1 - shows God's absolute initiative in the incarnation
2 - new Adam - not a continuance of Adam's race - a new creation 3 - Jesus ushers in the new birth 4 - her virginity as a sign of her faith 5 - Mary the perfect symbol of the church |
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