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14 Cards in this Set
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Homoousious
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The term used at the Council of Nicea (325 AD) and found in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed to express the relationship of the Father and the Son: the Son is of the same (homo) substance (ousia) as the Father. This statement was adopted to clarify the error of Arius.
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Theotokos
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Literally, "God-bearer"; title used originally in devotional terms for Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was disputed by Nestorius, who saw it as misleading and preferred Christotokos. The title received full ecclesiastical approval at the Council of Ephesus.
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Communicato idiomatum
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Literally, "the sharing of properties or characteristics"; term used in Christology which emphasizes the one person of Christ (the Hypostatic Union) subsisting in two natures; one can speak of the human and divine characteristics of the one person Jesus Christ and apply themequally in His case: e.g., in Christ, God was born of Mary; the Logos died on the cross; a human rose from the dead, etc.
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Hypostatic Union
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Refers to the unity of two complete natures (divine and human) in the one person (hypostasis) of Jesus Christ.
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Superbia
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Augustine's preferred term for pride; it is the absence of self-perspective induced by self-absorption. It results in disordered love(s).
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Concupiscence
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The moral feebleness which results from superbia and which is experienced as disordered desire and the propensity toward sin.
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Orthodoxy
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An idea, teaching, or belief which is in accord with the established faith of the community (i.e., the Church).
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Heresy/Heterodoxy
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An idea, teaching, or belief which is at variance with the established faith of the community (i.e., the Church).
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Ecumenical Council
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A gathering of bishops and their advisors from the known world to pronounce on Church belief and discipline. There have been 21 in the history of Christianity.
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Incarnation
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The doctrine that the Eternal Son (identified with the Logos or Word) of God, without the loss of His divinity, took upon Himself a complete human nature.
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Martyria
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Greek term for "witness" of "testimony"; a central theme in the book of Revelation and is the origin of the term "martyrdom".
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Latreia
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Greek term for the worship due to God; a central theme in the book of Revelation and one of the roots for the term idolatry.
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Christology
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A theological account of the person of Jesus Christ, particularly concerned to express the relation between the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ. It seeks to answer Jesus' queston "who do you say that I am?"
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Soteriology
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A theological account of salvation; seeks to express what precisely "salvation" means in terms of the person and work of the Holy Spirit.
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