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65 Cards in this Set
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Aquinas’ list of attributes. God is
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pure actuality, immutable, impassible, infinite and invisible, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, simple, necessary, underived, omnipotent
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Neo-Calvinism
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Calvinism contextualized to a later time period, as original Calvinism was addressing the issues of 16th C. Genevan culture.
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Essence
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the most essential part of something, without which the thing ceases to be
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Language relevant to God which says that God and man stand at such a distance that human language is at best vague and approximate
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Equivocal language
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Language relevant to God which presupposes a substantial commonality between God and man with a number of shared qualities including being, rationality, and language.
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Univocal language.
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Analogical language relevant to God
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moral, rational, or functional analogy.
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Names of God
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shorthand for everything He is. Elohim – Generic for “God”, Yahweh – personal name “Father”
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Deeds of God
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God’s actions and works as part of His identity
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Traits of God
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roles, both analogical and social
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Personality of God
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God has personhood
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Pantokrator
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all governing- directed, personal and particular power
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Omnipotens
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unqualified, universal power
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Potentia Absoluta
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medieval theological term meaning absolute potential.
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Compatibilism
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also known as soft determinism, is a theory that suggests that free will and determinism are in fact compatible. God works through means. Man is free AND God is sovereign.
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Pantokrator
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term meaning all governing, in a directed personal and particular way of speaking of God’s power.
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Attribute
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character trait
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Person
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a self-conscious being, able to choose and interact
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Spirit
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an incorporeal person, not limited by bodily or physical reality
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Sovereign
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totally independent, not deriving life or authority from any other source.
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Transcendent
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God is other than His creation
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Holy
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God is free from all moral impurity
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Constant
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God is faithful in his nature and character, He is immutable.
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Names for God meaning All-powerful
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El Shaddai and Pantokrator
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Eternal
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God is infinite without respect to time
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All-knowing
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God knows all things accurately and exhaustively. He is Omniscient.
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Just
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God does not sin. He is law-giver, judge, concerned for the oppressed and down-trodden and His righteousness brings salvation.
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Good
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God is divinely benevolent, dealing generously with His creatures.
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Atemporal eternality
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Atemporalism. Time in no way applies to God and He holds history in one glance. Man exists in time, but God in eternity. View held by Boethius, Anthenasius, Aquinas, Augustine.
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Endless temporality
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Temporalism. A recent position saying there is sequence within God. He remembers the past and anticipates the future. Temporalists argue that atemporalism makes it impossible for God to work in the World.
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The problem of monotheism
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the early church struggled with how to affirm monotheism in light of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ
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Adoptionism
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Christological view which says that there was a specific time at which God conferred a special relationship on Christ
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Identity
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Christological view which says that the Father is the Son and the Son is the Father
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Subordination
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Christological view which says that the Father is greater than the Son
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Distinction
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Christological view which says that there are two Lords
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Types of Adoptionism
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Ebionism, Dynamic Monarchianism
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Types of Identity
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Modalistic Monarchianism, Sabelliunism
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Ebionism
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a form of Pharisaic Jewish Christianity. Saw Jesus as natural son of Joseph and Mary, with an exemplary, rather than redemptive mission.
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Dynamic Monarchianism
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held by some gentile Christians who, like the Ebionites, strongly defended monotheism . Their commitment to monotheism came more from rationalist presuppositions than from the O.T. Said that God is a simple being and that there was a radical transcendence between the spiritual and the material.
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Modalistic Monarchianism
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fundamental commitments to divine simplicity, unity of God, and deity of Christ (though they saw distinctions within God as merely apparent, not ontological – different ways of speaking about the same reality.
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Modalistic monarchianist who said that God projects himself in different ways according to historical circumstances
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Praxeas
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Modalistic monarchianist who said that if Christ is God then he must be identical with the Father
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Sabellius
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Patripassianism
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view (held by Sabellius and other modalistic monarchianists) that said that the Father actually suffered the passion.
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Creational analogies used by the modalistic monarchianists
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Ontological analogy (sun), historical analogy (Old Test era, Gospel era, Epistolary era), economic-function analogy (creator and law-giver, redeemer, sanctifier and glorifier)
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Tertullian’s modalistic analogy
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steam, liquid, ice
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Trinitas
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Tertullian’s word for the three persons of the godhead
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Persona
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one of Tertullian’s contributions to the Trinitarian lexicon having the same denotation as Greek prosopon: mask/role
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Substantia
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one of Tertullian’s contributions to the Triniatrian lexicon meaning substance/essence/stuff
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Tertulian
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Bishop of Carthage, died 225, first thinker to write in Latin, wanted to think in biblical rather than philosophical terms. Said God was one substantia in three personas. Example of Distinction approach to understanding trinity.
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Hippolytus
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3rd century Roman writer who shared Tertullian’s anti-philosophical bias. Said there is no separation within God, but there is distinction. Said God’s oneness is prior to his threeness. The persons of the trinity are “capable of being counted.” Example of distinction approach to understanding trinity.
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Said the persons of the trinity are “capable of being counted.”
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Hippolytus
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Third century thinkers who said God is three at one time
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Tertullian and Hippolytus
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Origen
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3rd century Alexandrian thinker who followed in the tradition of Justin Martyr and the Logos philosophy of middle Platonism as developed by Philo. Example of Derivation or Subordinationism. Started with the monarchy of the Father and said all divinity derives from the Father, but believed in an ontological trinity. One ousia in three hypostases.
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Derivation may also be called
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Subordinationism
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Ousia
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greek term for being or subtance - commonly held essence
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Hypostases
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term meaning being or reality – sometimes translated as “person” identity
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Arianism
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said that the Son was the first of all creatures: tertium quid
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Monarchianism
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in general, the belief that the godhead is singular
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Dynamic monarchianism may also be called
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adoptionism
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Modalistic monarhianism may also be called
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identity
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Council of Nicea date
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325AD
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Council of Nicea players
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Constantine, Alexander of Alexandria, Eusebius, Hosious
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Probably wrote the Nicean creed
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Hosious of Cordova, emperor Constantine’s theological expert at Nicea
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Homoousious
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the Son is of the same essence of the father
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Athanasius of Alexandria
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succeeded Alexander and championed Nicean orthodoxy.
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Tertullian and Hippolytus
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Third century thinkers representing the Distinction approach to understanding the trinity.
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