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| Question | Answer |
| Yeshua | Hebrew name for Jesus; means "God saves"; "Joshua" in English; "Iesus" in Greek and Latin, "Jésus" in French, "Jesus" in English |
| Adoptionism | a human prophet was adopted by God as His son, that is, Jesus was a favored son of God; at that time, all men were considered "sons of God"; "raised up" doesn't necessarily mean resurrection |
| Doceticism | Greek for "to seem as; appear"; Logos only appeared to be human; form of Gnosticism (material things are evil; knowledge saves) |
| soteriology | study of salvation |
| Ignatius of Antioch | combated Doceticism; said it makes God a deceiver because he is not really saving us |
| Eunomius | student of Arius; said God took the soul out of Jesus in the womb and put in logos |
| salvation | "union with God" |
| Athanasius | combated Arianism and Apollonarianism saying "That which is not assumed (appropriated) cannot be saved."; "God became man so that man might become God" |
| sin | separation from God |
| Apollonarianism | said that Jesus didn't have a soul because he was without sin; Logos is God; Jesus is fully God, not fully human |
| Arianism | Jesus was neither human nor divine; God created Logos in a soulless human body |
| Nestorianism | believed that Jesus had 2 natures (human & divine) in 2 persons (Jesus & Logos) |
| Theophoros | Greek for "God bearer (carrier)" |
| hypostatic union | "subsistence (manner of existence) union"; Jesus was 1 person with 2 natures (human & divine) |
| Messiah | "the Anointed One" |
| Christ | Greek for "Messiah" |
| mesites | Greek for "middle party; middle man" |
| methorian | Greek for "midway point; bridge; boundary" |
| apokatallasso | Greek for "reconciliation" |
| principle of participation | if anything participates in the reality of another, then it is raised to a higher level and shares in its properties |
| theosis | Greek term saying that God's Divine Energies transform us to share in God's glory and become partaker in the Divine Nature |
| deification | the mystery of sharing in God's nature |
| Monotheletism | "one will"; Jesus only had one will (God's will) |
| Monophysitism | "one nature"; Jesus starts as both fully human and fully divine, but ends as only fully divine |
| Communication of Idioms | the human and divine natures communicate in concert |
| Leo of Rome | wrote "Leo's tome" which talks about the communication of idioms |
| Gregory of Nyssa | used a model consciousness ("with knowledge") as Jesus grows, his human consciousness grows and comes to know God's consciousness within himself; said "As I use my own free choice, I become my own father and mother" (self-actualization) |
| Gregory of Nazianzus | said God had an experiential knowledge of love through the Incarnation |
| exultet | "O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam that gained for us a redeemer"; Latin view |
| Anselm | asked "Cur Deus homo?" ("Why did God become man?"); said we are in the debt of sin and atonement is needed |
| divinization | the process of Theosis; the image of God is the "being" and the likeness of God is the "doing" |
| authority | "exousia" ("out of being"); an internal source |
| power | dynamic; an external source |
| free choice | "aut exousia" ("self authority"); allows us to be in the image of God; allows for authentic love between us and God |
| self-actualization | "aut éxousia" (self out of being); we can fashion ourselves |
| predestination | there is a place/goal set by God, i.e. heaven; we still have free choice |
| predetermination | God has determined everything, i.e. who is going to heaven, and who is going to hell; we do not have free choice |
| myth | a natural means of perception |
| Church | "ekklesia" ("called out of" the world to assemble) |
| catholic | "universal; worldwide" |
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