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human heresies
-manichean |
humans are too far from god to be redeemed
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human heresies
-pelagian |
humans are too close to god to need redeeming
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redeemer heresies
-docetic |
jesus isnt really human, he only appears to be
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redeemer heresies
-nazorean |
jesus isnt really divine,
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Council of Nicea
-when? -called to deal with? |
(325)- Constantine, was called to deal with the position of Arius
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Council of 1st Constantine
-when? -called to deal with? |
(381)-Constantinople, was called to deal with the position of Apollinarius
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Council of Ephesus
-when? -called to deal with? |
(431)-was called to deal with the position of Nestorius
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Council of Chalcedon
-when? -called to deal with? |
(451)-was called to deal with the position of Alexandria/Antioch and Eutyches
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Arius's position
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-said that god does not have an origin
-jesus does have an origin -origins happen in time -therefore there was a time when he (God) was not |
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Church response to Arius (Nicea)
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Nicene Creed says that jesus is homoousios with the father (one in being) and also that he was begotten, not made
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Reasons behind the Council of Nicea
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Argument from fact(Scripture)
-He gives the law -He calms the storm -He raises the dead --this proves that Jesus is fully divine Argument from necessity -if he isnt fully divine then he cant save us Lex orandi, Lex credendi -if he isnt divine and isnt the savior, then dont worship him -let your words and deeds agree -if you do worship him, you must believe he is god |
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Apollinarius's position
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JEsus was fully divine from the beginnin (not "adopted"); but that divind nature needs a place in Jesus
-where? |
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Church response to Apollinarius(1st Constantinople)
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jesus has a rational human soul=fully human (what is not assumed is not redeemed)
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Reasons behind the Council of Constantinople
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Argument from fact
-he weeps (soul) -he is afraid (soul) Argument from necessity -what is not assumed is not redeemed Argument from philosophy -god is transcendant -god does not need a place |
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Nestorius's position
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we must protect the integrity of BOTH natures (school of antioch)
-god cannot die, god cannot be born, it is the nature of god to be unchanging -mary can give birth to Jesus' humanity but not his divinity =mary is not the theotokos |
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Church response to Nestorius
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Mary IS the theotokos;union of two natures
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Reasons behind the council of Ephesus
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Argument from necessity
-if humanity and divinity are seperated in Jesus, then our human nature is forever seperated from god =we cannot be saved Lex orandi, Lex credendi -the Eucharist:this is my body, this is my blood -->no seperation |
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Eutyches position
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the union of the natures is so complete (alexandria) that there results only one nature(docetist)
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Church response to Eutyches
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one person with two natures (hypostatic union)
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Reasons behind the Council of Chalcedon
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Argument from fact
-the ONE man, Jesus--> sleeps, calms the storm> goes up the mountain, gives the law =the hypostatic union (the union in one person of two natures |