Quiz 10 Study Guide: Trinity

These flashcards cover key terms, concepts, and theological ideas from the study guide on the Trinity, facilitating review and examination preparation.

Means "distinct, yet not divided."

Distincti non divisi

Means "different, yet not separate or independent."

Discreti non separati

Greek term (ἀρραβών) referring to a pledge, guarantee, or ernest money particularly in a spiritual context as the Holy Spirit's role as a guarantee of believers' inheritance. It signifies a deposit or down payment securing a future transaction or promise.

Arrobon

Derived from Greek "doxa" (glory) and "logos" (“word or speaking”), it is a hymn or verse glorifying God, common in Christian liturgy. It is the general term for expressions of praise.

Doxology

Heresy that teaches the Holy Spirit is a created being.

Macedonianism

Heresy stating that teaches the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are just different modes of the one God, rather than distinct persons. A typical ____ approach is to regard God as the Father in creation, the Son in redemption, and the Spirit in sanctification.

Modalism

Greek for "economy". the economy of salvation is “the way in which one God has ordered the salvation of humanity in history.”

Oikonomia

Greek meaning "make space around"; theologically describes the divine dance of the three Persons of the Trinity, emphasizing mutual indwelling yet distinct individuality.

Perichoresis

Jurgen Moltmann's view of God as a collective reality — a group or a society, bound together by mutual love, accord, and self-giving of its members.

Social Trinity

Heresy asserting the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three independent divine beings instead of one God in three separate gods who share the ‘same substance’.

Tritheism

How can Christians witness God’s presence which they experiencde in Jesus Christ and maintain their belief in God as one?; How can God be three and one simultaneously?

Theoogical Problems Addressed by the Doctrine of the Trinity

Scripture, Tadition, Reason, and Experience

Resources for Theological Problems

God exists as one being in three distinct persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.

The Doctrine of the Trinity Understanding

These persons share the same nature, essence, and character but are distinct and indivisible.

The Doctrine of the Trinity Understanding

Jewish Monotheism, Pagan Polytheism, and Greek Metaphysics

Religious and Philisophical Context

God as a timeless immaterial substance; God as absolute subjectivity (single subject); God as the first cause of all things

God in Early Modern Categories

God created the world with order and form; God redeemed the world through Jesus Christ; God is present in the world here and now, guiding and encouraging believers

The Christian Theological Vision of God

"The shape of trinitarian doctrine is dictated by the pattern of redemption: everything comes from God, is made known and redeemed through Jesus Christ, and is consummated by the power of the Holy Spirit."

The Shape of the Trinitarian Doctrine

The Father is known in Christ through the Spirit; The NT witnesses God's presence and actions through the Son and Spirit.

Patterns of Divine Activity in Scripture

The trinity is diconnceted from and no longer integrated with a Christian theological understanding of salvation, the church, and understaning of Jesus as the Christ and God.

Critique of Western Doctrine of the Trinity by Lorenzen

The divine essence is robustly relational; The divine essence is the dynamic relations of the persons in and through one another; God is relationship

The Divine Essence If “Robustly Relational”

God persuades vs. coercesl; God and humans inter-relatedness and cooperation; Here and now; Cosmological: all of creation; Mother, Lover, Friend; Sin is not participating in the process of salvation, thus refusing to enter into relationship with Godv

Themes in Feminist Theology