+1 862 207 3288 1. The Nicean Creed has what type of structure? ________________________________________
2. Incarnation = _________________________________________________________
3. Unlike Jews and Muslims, Christians are _______________________________________________
4. Christology = ______________________________________________
5. “Christology as found in the creed is not an ________________________________. It begins from and returns to the two- sided Christian experience of
______________________________________________________.”
6. The title of the first section : ___________________________________________________________
7. What is Paul’s experience of Christ as expressed in his letters? Name at least 4 aspects of this experience of “”life in Christ”?
8. Some of Paul’s letters have been shown to be the earliest writings of the New Testament. “In Paul, then, we find the earliest detailed example of a conception of Christian living as
__________________________________________________________________________________.”
9. The title of the second section: _____________________________________________________
10. What was the remarkable development of Christian worship? _______________________________
11. What took place before the formation of the New Testament? ______________________________
12. What was unusual about Jewish Christians calling on “the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” or
saying “Jesus Christ is Lord?”_______________________________________________________________
13. Summarize the complete paragraph on page 180. What does it say is the early Christian experience of Jesus?
14. What is docetism and why is it important? __________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
15. What are ecumenical councils? __________________________________________________________
16. Why are the first 4 particularly important? __________________________________________________
17. Give some background on Constantine: __________________________________________________
18. Why did he convene a Church council in 324?_____________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
19. In the 300’s what were the four major cities of the Roman Empire? __________________________
20. Who was Arius? ______________________________________________________
21. How did Arius and his followers understand the relationship between the Father and the Son? Include an explanation of the following words within your explanation: Logos, Pantokrator, subordinationism, monad, dyad.
22. Why did those who opposed Arius find his teaching (doctrine) about the relationship between the Father and the Son inconsistent with Arius’ own experience of Christian worship?
23. If Arius’ theological understanding of the Son/Logos (his Christology) was correct, how would that affect Christian possibilities for new life now and salvation from death?
24. Creed = “symbol of ____________________” (p186)
25. The bishops of the Council of Nicea wanted to use only Scriptural language to write the creed. They added two clarifying phrases to this language. List these and explain how they countered the teaching of Arius:
a. _____________________________________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________________________________
26. The Nicean Creed is very similar to what Gospel passage? __________________________
27. What two cities differed in their Christological traditions? _______________________________
28. Explain the significance of the statement, “As you pray, so you believe.” _______________
29. What does “filioque” mean? _________________________________________________
30. The doctrine of the Trinity shows that ultimate reality is ________________________ rather than
___________________________. What is an implication of this for today?
______________________________________________________________________________
31. Cyril was from _____________________ which stressed what aspect of Jesus?
___________________. Nestorius was from _________________________ which stressed what aspect
of Jesus? _____________________________________
32. What did Theotokos mean? _____________________________
33. Explain the two sides in this controversy: _____________________________________________
34. What is a patriarch? ___________________________________________________
35. What is monophysitism? __________________________________________________________
36. What were the views of Alexandria and Antioch on the person and nature of Jesus?
________________________________________________________________________________________
37. What did each of the following contribute to the definition of the Council of Chalcedon:
a. Cyril of Alexandria? ____________________________________________________
b. “Formula of Reunion”? _____________________________________________________
c. Pope Leo the Great? ____________________________________________________
d. Flavian of Constantinople? ______________________________________________
38. Make sure you understand the Summary and chart on p 198.
39. If the Nicaean Creed and the definition of Chalcedon are neither theoretical philosophical positions nor appeals to the imagination, how are we to understand them? Where, when, and how are they supposed to work?
40. What is the “Good News of the Incarnation”?
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