Christ And Salvation Final

Front 1

• Ebionism

Back 1

o Early Jewish denial of X’s deity, offshoot from NT Judaizers, Monotheistic
o Rejected virgin birth
o At baptism X descended upon Jesus in form of dove; near end of life X withdrew from the man Jesus
o Jesus was prophet – not pre-existent

Front 2

• Arianism

Back 2

o X was 1st and greatest of God’s creatures – denied deity
o Presupposed: uniqueness & transcendence of God, God is unknowable; Father worked and works in the word – word had a beginning
• Son is different than Father in essence
o Condemned in 325 – Nicea; Athenasius defended orthodoxy against him, if X is not God then couldn’t atone for sin

Front 3

• Docetism

Back 3

o Attack humanity, only appeared to be human
o Influenced by Greek philosophers – Plato: spirit highest, matter less real/bad
o God couldn’t be human since matter is bad, Jesus passed through Mary – transmission not incarnation; the womb being matter would have contaminated him

Front 4

• Apollinarianism

Back 4

o Denied completeness of X’s human nature
o Compound unity: part human, rest divine; Logos was “spark of life” animating body; human body not soul or human will
o Condemned at Constantinople in 381

Front 5

• Nestorianism

Back 5

o Divided Christ’s natures into two persons; Condemned at Ephesus 431

Front 6

• Eutychianism

Back 6

o Two natures before incarnation, after only one
o Humanity was absorbed into deity and virtually eliminated; Monophysitism: X had one nature
o Condemned Chalcedon 451

Front 7

• Adoptionism

Back 7

o Attack X’s deity, God adopted human being and bestowing Spirit on him
o Jesus was merely a man until baptism – God adopted, not true incarnation
o Adoptionism begins from below; state with mere man never have more than ultimate man or divinize man who can’t save

Front 8

• Kenoticism

Back 8

o Reduction of Christ’s deity in incarnation; laid aside some divine attributes and took human qualities
o Parallels modalistic monarchianism: not God and man simultaneously but succesively