THEO 313 Quiz 2: Person of Christ: Deity
- Simply stated, “The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that the one true God eternally exists as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”
- Trinitarianism is the Christian variety of ____, carrying forward the OT’s insistence that God is one (Deut. 6:4).
- While the doctrine of the Trinity is primarily promised and foreshadowed in the OT, it is analyzed and indicated only in the NT.
- The necessity of publicly refuting heresies such as modalism and subordinationism helped codify trinitarian theology.
- is any reduction of the three persons to mere modes, phases, or manifestations of the one God, while subordinationism is any demotion of the Son or Holy Spirit from full deity.
- The Athanasian Creed says, Christians confess the Triune God without “confounding the persons or dividing the substance.”
- The Greek term ____ is used in the Nicene Creed to signify that the Father and Son are coessential or consubstantial.
- The Western churches assert that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and from the Son as from one common source; this view is called Monopatrism because of the Western addition of that Latin word (meaning “and from the Son”) to the Nicene Creed, is a modification of the creed’s teaching that the Spirit “proceeds from the Father.”
- ____, meaning “and from the Son, recognizes the Spirit as the bond of union between the Father and the Son.
- Since the second century, the classic trinitarian formula has been ____ phrase “one essence, three persons.”