Heresies
This heresy claimed Christ was merely a human being whom God chose to adopt.
Adoptionism
St. Cyril’s famous Christological formula is "The One Nature of the ______ ______."
Incarnate Logos
This analogy illustrates that the divine nature remains unimpaired even when contacting mud
Sun and the Mud
This branch of theology is concerned with the nature and work of Jesus, including the Resurrection.
Christology
This heresy denied the divinity of Christ entirely.
Arianism
St. Cyril taught that the union of natures occurred without any of these things happening.
change or confusion, (or mixing/mingling), alteration
St. Cyril used this burning object to show how divinity can play on humanity without consuming it.
Bush (the fire and the bush)
This Greek term is not a last name, but a title meaning "Messiah."
Christos (χριστός)
This heresy argued that Christ’s divinity completely absorbed His humanity.
Eutychianism
According to St. Cyril, all sayings and actions in the Gospels are attributed to this.
one Person (or single hypostasis) of Jesus Christ
This analogy explains how the human soul is made superior to sin by being "colored" with immutability.
Wool and the Dye
St. Cyril describes the union as a "concurrence into one" of things conceived of as being this.
United
preferred the term "connection" over "union" and said the Word "took" a man.
Nestorius
Through the Incarnation, St. Peter says we are granted the grace to become "partakers of" ........
Divine Nature
This analogy explains how properties can mix (like heat) while the underlying natures remain distinct.
Iron in the fire
St. Cyril equates the "One Nature" of Christ with this specific Greek theological term.
Hypostasis