Reliability of the Gospels
These are the biblical sources from which we get the historical evidence for Jesus
What are the Gospels and the New Testament?
This is the reason we spend so much time looking at the different possibilities surrounding the resurrection in this class.
What is Jesus' greatest miracle?
This is the word used in Trinitarian Theology to describe where/how the Son and the Holy Spirit come from.
What is procession?
This is the word used to describe the procession of the Son from the Father.
What is generation?
This is Jesus' main claim, and the reason for this entire unit of study.
What is Jesus' claim to be the Son of God?
These are the two writers we have looked at in class who give us extra-biblical evidence for Jesus around the same time He was on Earth
Who are Josephus and Tacitus?
This is the theory that says the Resurrection story arose over many years such as many other fantastic stories across times and cultures.
What is the myth theory?
This is the Gospel where we receive most of our Divine Revelation about the nature of the Trinity.
What is the Gospel of John?
This is the word used to describe the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son.
What is spiration?
This is CS Lewis' argument for approaching Jesus' claim.
What is the Liar, Lunatic, Lord argument?
This is the type of history that is written about Jesus in the Gospels, which typically focuses on the life and works of one person, starts with ancestral lineage, and were not always written in chronological order.
What is biography?
This is the theory that says that Jesus did not rise from the dead, but that the apostles were deceived.
What is the hallucination theory?
This is another name for the son of God which helps describe how the Son proceeds from the Father, and this name is seen in the beginning of one of the Gospels.
What is the Word/Logos?
This is the word for divine indwelling, not the word for the sign Jewish males use for their covenant with God.
What is circumincession?
These are other proofs for Jesus' claim to divinity, although we did not spend much time studying most of them. NOT the Bible, other written historical records, or the Resurrection.
What are miracles?
These are the two sciences scholars use when determining the historical accuracy and reliability of old texts.
Paleography and Textual Criticism
This is the theory that says Jesus didn't rise from the dead, but that the apostles did the deceiving deliberately.
What is the conspiracy theory?
This describes the procession of the third Person of the Trinity.
What is the love between the Father and the Son?
This is the Greek word which says the God the Father and God the Son are consubstantial, and it means 'same being-ness'.
What is homoousios?
This is further physical proof for Jesus' claim that we can still see today, and a rendering of the image it has is in the chapel at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.
What is the Shroud of Turin?
These are the names of gospels attributed to apostles and close friends of Jesus at the time He was on Earth, but not included in the Bible, such as the Gospel of James, Judas. and Peter
What are the Apocryphal Gospels?
This is the theory that says Jesus didn't die.
What is the swoon theory?
This is the word used to describe attributing certain titles to the Three Persons to help us understand their distinction, despite the Three Persons being One.
What is appropriation?
What is innascibility?
This is a phrase derived from Greek which means that Jesus is one Person with two natures.
What is the Hypostatic Union?