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Nature of God
Heresies
The Trinity
Heresies about the Trinity
Miscellaneous
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The sense of possessing a superior quality of being such that everything depends on God for its existence
What is God's transcendence?
100
Any view of God that places too much emphasis on God’s immanence (connection to the world) and neglects God’s self-sufficient transcendence.
What is panentheism?
100
The distinction of three persons in the Trinity.
What is Hypostaseis?
100
Denies any essential distinction between the three of the Godhead.
What is the Oneness movement?
100
Self-sufficiency, eternality, omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience.
What are attributes of God's transcendence?
200
The sense of being graciously present in love with His creation.
What is God's immanence?
200
The view of God that he is the architect of the universe and its moral governor but not intimately involved in day-to-day operations (relatively uninvolved/uncaring)
What is deism?
200
One substance or being.
What is Ousia?
200
The Father, Son and Holy spirit are not three distinct persons but merely three distinct modes of revelation or manifestations of the single person who is God.
What is modalism?
200
Love, faithfulness, mercy, justice, wisdom.
What are attributes of God's immanence?
300
The inability to change.
What is immutability?
300
Denies the objective reality of universals and “human nature” and believe in only particulars such as actual human individuals exist.
What is nominalism?
300
God is one by virtue of essence/substance while being three by virtue and distinction of persons.
What is the Christian consensus about the Trinity?
300
A form of subordinationism: Jesus Christ was a great prophet and messiah raised up by God the Father and “adopted” as his special Son. Ignores the Spirit.
What is adoptonism?
300
A unifying creed meant to serve as definitive statement on the Trinity.
What is the Nicene Creed?
400
Includes impassibility (the inability to suffer).
What is strong immutability?
400
Holds that universals are more than just terms and that human nature exists in a sense apart from the particular human beings who instantiate it.
What is realism?
400
Compares the Trinity with a single human person who always has distinct dimensions of personality.
What is the psychological analogy of the Trinity?
400
A form of subordinationism: denied the heavenly Son of God’s equality with God… Jesus = secondary god/God’s first & greatest creature
What is Arianism?
400
A Christian leader/theologian who argued that Jesus was not the Son of God or equal to God, but was a great creature.
Who is Arius from Alexandria?
500
Excludes impassibility and affirms the ability to suffer.
What is weak immutability?
500
A panentheist who held the belief that “without the world God is not God”
Who is Hegel?
500
Compares Trinity with a human community that always has some unifying force.
What is the sociological analogy of the Trinity?
500
Belief in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three separate divine beings/gods.
What is tritheism?
500
A more technically correct name for the Nicene Creed.
What is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed?