Theology of Jesus Quiz

Alexandria

ancient center of Christianity and economic hub

Constantinople

Capital of the Roman empire Center of learning

Antioch Syria

Known as the first place the term Christian was used

Christology

The study of things pertaining to Christ

Cyril

• Raised in Alexandria, Egypt

  He became the bishop of Alexandria in 412 and sought to rule firmly over the churches and confront weak theology

• Focus on scripture

• His biggest battle was against Arianism and its subordination view of the Trinity

Alexandrian approach

• Affirmed the two natures, but viewed the divine nature as invading humanity

• The eternal word of God, becoming flesh, word flesh

• The word genuinely entered the human realm

Antiochian approach

Held that the divine and human natures of Jesus were distinct the eternal word of God was paired with part two, the individual human man named Jesus

Nestorius

Became Bishop of Constantinople in 428, he rejected the term theotokos to describe Mary

Docetism

The son only seemed to be human, did not want the savior to have a physical body, which by nature is evil

Apollinarianism

Jesus was fully divine, he had a human body, but not a human soul

Adoptionism

The man Jesus had a normal human birth and was called to serve God and lead God's people. God chose a good man

Arianism

Son is semi Divine, first and greatest of all God's creatures, not fully divine in the same way that God is divine, almost similar to orthodoxy

Nestorianism

Emphasize the distinction between the two natures that it became two persons, the divine son and the human Jesus. Nestorius, therefore, denied something fundamental about the oneness of Jesus’ person

Eutychianism

Argued too strongly for an indivisible unity, either Jesus's two natures mixed and created a third nature, or there was a functional absorption of his humanity into his divinity

hypostatic union

Jesus is both man and God

hypostasis

three distinct persons within the Trinity