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- 2. All-good, an attribute of God.
- 7. The study of God and Divine Revelation.
- 8. This fourth century heresy maintained that in Christ there were two separate persons, the divine and the human Jesus.
- 10. A Hebrew name for the “all-high God.”
- 11. Refers to the distinct persons of the Trinity.
- 17. From the Greek for “single” and “nature.” This heresy claims that there is only one, divine nature in Christ and that any human nature he may have had was incorporated into his divine nature. It was condemned by both the Fourth Ecumenical Council (Chalcedon) in 451 and the Fifth Ecumenical Council (Constantinople II) in 553.
- 19. The quality of being unchangeable or unalterable
- 20. The obstinate denial or obstinate doubt by a baptized person of some truth that must be believed with divine faith.
- 21. Making no mistakes or errors.
- 22. That which is positively immaterial, having no dependence on matter for its existence or activities.
- 23. A traditional Jewish prayer that declares faith in one God. Jews are obligated to recite it several times a day. It begins, “Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.”
- 29. The belief in only one God, the Creator of the universe.
- 30. A Greek term that means “of the same substance,” referring to the one divine substance shared in common by the Father and the Son.
- 32. A Hebrew word for God meaning “almighty God.”
- 33. From the Latin for “to make flesh;” the mystery of the hypostatic union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person, the Word, Jesus Christ. To bring about man’s salvation, the Son of God was made flesh and became truly man.
- 34. A third-and fourth-century heresy that denied Jesus’ divinity, claiming that he was not equal to the Father but that instead he was only an exceptional creature, who was raised to the level of “Son of God” because of his heroic fidelity to the Father’s will and his great holiness.
- 35. The mystery of one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- 36. That union between divinity and humanity in the one (divine) person of Jesus Christ.
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- 1. A name for the Holy Spirit; from the Greek for “called to one’s aid” in the sense of consoler, advocate, and intercessor.
- 3. All-powerful, an attribute of God.
- 4. In the philosophical sense, an individual substance of a rational nature, complete in itself, incommunicable, and possessing responsibilities and rights as well as the essential elements of distinctiveness, uniqueness, intelligence, and will.
- 5. A belief in more than one god.
- 6. From the Greek for “knowledge.” The principal tenet of several related heresies consists in salvation being achieved through secret knowledge. In the second century, this heresy sought to pervert the meaning of the Christian Faith, its expression, its life, and its symbols.
- 9. Meaning “one and the same essence.” The three Persons of the Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—share the same divine nature. This is affirmed of Jesus Christ in relation to the Father in the Nicene Creed.
- 12. A Hebrew name for God, meaning “Lord.”
- 13. A divinely revealed truth the very possibility of which cannot be rationally conceived before it is revealed and, after revelation, the inner essence of which cannot be fully understood by the finite mind.
- 14. From the Greek for “to seem” or “to appear.” This particular Gnostic heresy maintained that Jesus Christ was a phantom or angel, merely appearing to be man
- 15. Present everywhere, an attribute of God.
- 16. The Hebrew word for “God the Creator.”
- 18. Beyond the limits of ordinary experience to the degree of incomprehensibility.
- 24. Close and present, accessible, easy to grasp. In a theological context, it is the opposite of transcendent.
- 25. The religion of the Jews.
- 26. Of, or pertaining to, God.
- 27. Outstanding writers of the early church who had the following characteristics: orthodoxy of doctrine; explicit recognition by the church; holiness; and antiquity (that is, lived in the first few centuries).
- 28. All-knowing, an attribute of God.
- 31. The essence of a being, considered as the principle of activity and defining its particular characteristics.