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18 Cards in this Set
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Creed
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a formal definition or summary of the Christian faith, held by all Christians (ideally)
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Docetism
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An early Christological heresy which treated Jesus Christ as a purely diving being who only had the "appearance" of being human.
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Donatism
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A movement centering upon Roman north Africa in the fourth century, which developed a rigid view of the church and sacraments.
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Ebionitism
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An early Christological heresy, which treated Jesus Christ as a purely human figure, although recognizing that he was endowed with particular charismatic gifts which distinguished him from other humans
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Ecclesiology
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The section of Christian theology dealing with the theory of the church
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Eschatology
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The section of Christian theology dealing with the "last things," especially the ideas of resurrection, hell, the Last Judgment, and eternal life.
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Homoousion
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A Greek term meaning "of the same substance" which came to be used extensively during the fourth century to designate the mainline Christological belief that Jesus Christ was of the same substance as God. The term was polemical, being directed against the Arian view that Christ was "of similar substance to God" (homoiousios)
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Hypostatic Union
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The doctrine of the union of divine and human natures in Jesus Christ, without confusion of their respective substances
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Jesus Prayer
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A prayer common in eastern monastic traditions (specifically the Heschyistic tradition) which was repeated throughout the entire day to bring one to a higher level of spiritual awareness.
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Modalism
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A trinitarian heresy, which treats the three persons of the Trinity as different "modes of the Godhead. A typical modalist approach is to regard God as active as Father in Creation, Son in redemption, and Spirit in sanctification
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Monophysitism
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The doctrine that there is only one nature in Christ, which is divine. This view differed from the orthodox view, upheld by the Council of Chalcedon that Christ had two natures (divine/human)
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Patripassianism
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A third century heresy associated with writers such as Noetus, Praxeas and Sabellius, focusing on the belief that the Father suffered as the Son. In other words, the suffering of Christ on the cross is to be regarded as the suffering of the Father. Common to modalism
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Patristic
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An adjective used to refer to the first centuries in the history of the church, following the New Testament, roughly 100-451, ending with the Council of Chalcedon
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Perichoresis
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A term relating to the doctrine of the Trinity, (latin: circumincessio). The basic notion is that all three persons of the Trinity mutually share in the life of the others, so that none is isolated or detached from the actions of the others.
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Sabellianism
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An early trinitiarian heresy which treated the three persons of the trinity as different historical manifestations of the one God. It is generally regarded as a form of modalism
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Soteriology
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the section of Christian theology dealing with the doctrine of salvation
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Theotokos
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"bearer of God" a Greek term used to refer to Mary with the intention of reinforcing the central insight of the doctrine of the incarnation, that Jesus is none other than God. Used extensively by the eastern church
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Transubstantiation
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The doctrine according to which the bread and the wine are transformed into the body and blood of Chrsit in the Eucharist, while retaining their outward appearance.
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