Heresies
This heresy denies the goodness of creation
What is Gnosticism?
This term refers to Jesus as "Word made flesh"
What is incarnation?
This is a title used for Jesus; means "the anointed one"
What is Messiah(Hebrew)/Christ(Greek)?
This view of the image of God locates it in a capacity possessed by human beings (i.e., what humans are)
What is the substantial view?
This part of the "Way of Salvation" involves making one right with God
What is justification?
This Christological heresy claims that Jesus was the greatest creation, and therefore not God
What is Arianism?
The Christian tradition describes Jesus as one person with two ________.
What is "natures"?
This term refers to sin as corporate and systemic
What is social sin?
This view of the image of God grounds it in the perichoresis within the Godhead
What is the relational view?
Concerning Jesus’ humanity, early church theologians declared “that which he did not _________________, he did not heal.”
What is "assume"?
This heresy argued that Jesus had the divine mind (Logos) in a human body
What is Apollinarianism?
This is one of the characteristics of Jesus' context identified by Howard Thurman
What is poor/Jewish/oppressed minority?
This word refers to the process of reconciliation with God
What is atonement?
This term is used to describe humanity’s propensity for evil after the fall
What is "original sin"?
This phrase stands at the heart of the Barmen Declaration and Belhar Confession.
What is "Jesus is Lord"?
This heresy denied Mary the title of "God-bearer"
What is Nestorianism?
Nestorianism is condemned at this council
What is Ephesus?
This term is used to state that Jesus is of the same substance as the Father.
What is homoousios?
This is J. Deotis Roberts' understanding of the imago Dei
What is "persons-in-community"?
In this approach to the atonement, Jesus takes the place of humanity
What is substitution?
What is Eutychianism?
James Cone links this to Jesus' cross
What is the lynching tree?
This term describes Mary as the God-bearer (or Mother of God)
What is theotokos?
This is the name of Pope Francis' perspective in Laudato Si'
What is integral ecology?
In this approach to the atonement, human nature partakes of the divine nature, making Jesus' incarnation of central importance
What is deification?