Council of Nicaea
Cyrenaic Presbyter who wrote these words. "If the father beget the son, then the son had a beginning in time."
Arius
The emperor who convened the Council in 381.
Theodosious I
This Archbishop of Constantinople taught that Christ had two separate natures, one divine and one human.
Nestorious
This emperor called the Council of Chalcedon after the death of Theodosius II to settle the disputes from the previous councils.
Marcian
Nestorius exchanged letters with the Patriarch on the subject of Mary.
Cyril of Alexandria
A church father and chief proponent of Trinitarianism.
Athanasius
The creed was a result of the Council of Nicaea and was expanded during the Council of Constantinople to include additions concerning this element of the God-head.
Holy Spirit
Condemned Nestorius’s teachings as heretical and took charge of the Council of Ephesus.
Cyril of Alexandria
Known as one of the earliest church historians, he was the cousin of the emperor, and he was excommunicated because of his views on Arianism, but was later welcomed back into the church.
Eusebius
According to Nestorious, "Mary did not give birth to the..."
God-head
This theological debate arose as a disagreement over the nature of Christ's divinity in the 4th Century and was not really settled at Nicaea.
Arian Controversy
Considered one of the Cappadocian Fathers, an early Doctor of the Church, and helped shape the doctrine of the Trinity.
Gregory of Nazianzus
What did the holy fathers boldly call the holy Virgin according to Cyril’s Second Letter?
Theotokos
This greek term was the center of much controversy and debate in the early patristic period.
οὐσία
Ousia or Essence
Is Jesus a human being or is he like a human being according to Fr 45 of the Apollinaris reading, AND why
Like a human because of his incarnate intellect.
The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity marked Christianity as an official religion of the Roman Empire. He also convened the Council of Nicaea. He excommunicated his cousin, Eusebius, for his views.
Constantine I or Constantine the Great.
A noted opponent of Arianism who wrote these words: “the human race is saved… by the assumption of flesh (by the Logos)”.
Apollinaris of Laodicea
Before the Council of Ephesus officially began, Cyril of Alexandria started the meeting early using this phrase.
"Start the council without delay."
Early heresy that believed the three persons of the Trinity were distinct historical manifestations.
Sabellianism
In A Black Theology of Liberation James Cones notes six of these as (blank) for doing theology.
Sources
Meaning constubstantial.
Homoousious
Beginning with the phrase "I believe in One God," and ending with "and the life of the world to come." This was one of the "resolutions" of the First Council of Constantinople.
Nicene-Constantinople Creed
After the initial Council of Ephesus, a later gathering called the “Robbers’ Council” condemned anyone linked to Nestorius and declared this Christological view the only correct one
Monophysitism or the belief that Christ has one nature (divine and human combined).
Used by the homoiousians to reference the individual persons of the Godhead.
Sabellianism
This is the title of the first chapter of Kevin Hector's Christianity as A Way of Life
"The Good of Theology"