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8 Cards in this Set
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• Ebionism
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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 |
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• Arianism
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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 |
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• Docetism
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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 |
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• Apollinarianism
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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 |
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• Nestorianism
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o Divided Christ’s natures into two persons; Condemned at Ephesus 431
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• Eutychianism
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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 |
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• Adoptionism
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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 |
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• Kenoticism
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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 |