Important Terms
The languages used for theological discussions and the regions.
What is Latin in the West and Greek in the East?
Docetism.
What is the view where Jesus did not have a body?
The belief that Jesus has two distinct natures.
What is Dyophysitism?
Jesus was born like all other humans have been born after Adam and Eve, in Bethlehem.
What is Matthew 1:23?
The Key passage for Kenosis.
What is Philippians 2:5-8?
The Greek word meaning essence, being, substance.
What is ousia?
Jesus only had ONE nature.
What is monophysitism?
A formal statement of Christian doctrine/beliefs
What is a creed?
The chapter that makes multiple references to Jesus having a physical body, which Gnostics would have despised.
What is 1John 1?
The English translation of kenosis.
What is "empty"?
The Latin equivalent to hypostasis.
What is persona?
The view that Jesus had a human body but not a human soul.
What is Apollinarianism?
English term that means "of the same substance"
What is consubstantial?
Verse that indicates the Messiah, Jesus, would look ordinary and average.
What is Isaiah 53:2?
The first way that Jesus could have laid aside or emptied himself of His divine properties that we rejected because of what follows.
What is he gave up or let go of His divine properties?
The THING that has properties.
What is a substance?
Eutychianism.
What is the view that the 2 natures were blended making a single new nature in Jesus?
...truly God and __________ man...
What is truly?
What is John 1:3?
A professional soccer player who plays with 5 year olds.
What is an analogy discussed in class to help understand how Jesus laid aside his divine attributes?
What a THING must have in order to be the KIND of THING it is.
What is an essential property?
The view that Jesus is two persons rather than one.
What is Nestorianism?
One person, two natures.
What is the Hypostatic Union?
Key passage that says Jesus "emptied" himself.
What is Philippians 2:5-8?
The way we understand that Jesus laid aside his divine properties in order to take on human nature.
What is he did not avail himself to those divine properties, but they were still his?