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What are the 5 names for God we have learned?
Tetragrammaton (YHWH)
Yahweh
Jehovah
”I am who I am”
Lord
2 ways of discovering the attributes of God
Via aminentiae - Saying what God is
Via negative - Saying what God is NOT
2 types of divine attributes
Incommunicable - We cannot share (immortal, perfection)
Communicable - One that we can share (Relational, Love)
What is Transcendence?
Degree which God surpasses our finite human abilities to conceive and describe
What is Immanence?
God being near, present, everywhere, ubiquitous, omnipresent
What is Immutability?
Describes the constancy of God and God’s character
What is Analogical language?
Language that was “symbolic in nature” (God as powerful/Merciful)
What is apophatic language?
Emphasizes that human conceptions of God are incapable of conceptualizing God.
What is Omnipotence?
All powerful
What is Omnipresence?
Everywhere present
What is Omniscience?
To knows all things
What are the four attributes of divinity to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
Divine names
Divine attributes
Divine works
Worship
What is Heresy?
Beliefs that were thought to address parts of biblical teaching but not all of it
Who was Arius and what did he think?
Christian thinker from 256-336
Thought that Jesus was not equal to God
What is subordination?
Jesus is less than God
What is Homousios?
Being of one essence or the same substance
What is Adoptionism/dynamic Monarchianism?
Jesus was a person who had the power of God and represented God in amazing ways, but had no essentail union with God
What is Modalist Monarchianism?
Only one God, but God has various apperances to make it seem as if he where multiple divine persons
What is Tritheism?
Affirming that all three persons of the Godhead (trinity) are separate
What is Unitarianism?
Advocates belief in God as one person alone, reflecting the ongoing conern for the ancient monotheistic understanding of God.
What is Ontological?
God’s existance is proved by reason because the Christian idea of God must be true
What are the four arguments for Cosmological?
Motion - everything in motion must have a first “mover”
Causality - Everything is subject to cause, must be a first cause
Contingency - Everything dependent on something else fo its existence
Degrees of being - there is a hierarchy of being in the world, God is highest perfection
What is Teleological?
The design for the universe did not happen by chance
What are the Volitional Arguments for God?
A person must take a leap of faith because the claims of Christianity can seem absurd
What is Monism?
All things in the universe are derived from and are equal to one ultimate source
What is Dualism
There are two equal yet distinct realities in the universe (one good and one all evil)
What is providence?
The word Christians use to describe how God sustains, governs, and develops all aspects of creation in accordance with God’s will.
What is the Phychological model of the Trinity?
The unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is like the unity of the mind, heart, and volition of a person. Memory (Father) reason (Son) love (Holy Spirit)
What is the Social Model of the Trinity?
We should think of the unity of the Trinity more like the unity of mind, heart, and will of three people (Counselor, comforter, advocate, helper)
What is Ousia?
Substance. All people of the Trinity are all equally God
What is Hypostases or Personae?
Each person of the Trinity is its own person
What are the four characteristics of a god in the ancient world?
holy/spirit
Personified
Powerful
Worshipped
What are the eight issues of gender language for God?
God: Person, Not Force
The Imago Dei
Earth-mother goddess & Panentheism
Earth-mother goddess & Women’s Rights
Gender Preference re: God
Jesus, God, & Women
God’s Perfection & “Healing images”
God’s Fatherhood & the End of Patriarchy
What does Simplicity mean?
God has no parts, he is just God. Attributes of God are not at war with each other
What is Aseity? (Foghorn Leghorn. I say, I say, I say)
God does not depend on anything else to exist
What is Polytheism?
Many Gods; God’s/Spirits over different parts of nature or human nature
What is Monotheism? (mono=one)
One God
What is Deism?
Distant God (clock maker)
What is Pantheism?
The world is God
What is Panetheism?
All in God; dualism (A good side and a bad side) God is the soul, the world is the body
What is the Orthodox formula for the Trinity?
God is three persons who share 1 essence/being/substance
“person" is not an individual of people when referring to God
Essential equality
Eternal differentiation
Differentiation in Functions/roles (Father plans, Son becomes incarnate, Holy Spirit fills us)