reasons to believe
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human heresies
-manichean - humans are too far from god to be redeemed
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human heresies
-pelagian - humans are too close to god to need redeeming
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redeemer heresies
-docetic - jesus isnt really human, he only appears to be
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redeemer heresies
-nazorean - jesus isnt really divine,
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Council of Nicea
-when?
-called to deal with? - (325)- Constantine, was called to deal with the position of Arius
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Council of 1st Constantine
-when?
-called to deal with? - (381)-Constantinople, was called to deal with the position of Apollinarius
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Council of Ephesus
-when?
-called to deal with? - (431)-was called to deal with the position of Nestorius
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Council of Chalcedon
-when?
-called to deal with? - (451)-was called to deal with the position of Alexandria/Antioch and Eutyches
- Arius's position
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-said that god does not have an origin
-jesus does have an origin
-origins happen in time
-therefore there was a time when he (God) was not - Church response to Arius (Nicea)
- Nicene Creed says that jesus is homoousios with the father (one in being) and also that he was begotten, not made
- Reasons behind the Council of Nicea
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Argument from fact(Scripture)
-He gives the law
-He calms the storm
-He raises the dead
--this proves that Jesus is fully divine
Argument from necessity
-if he isnt fully divine then he cant save us
Lex orandi, Lex credendi
-if he isnt divine and isnt the savior, then dont worship him
-let your words and deeds agree
-if you do worship him, you must believe he is god - Apollinarius's position
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JEsus was fully divine from the beginnin (not "adopted"); but that divind nature needs a place in Jesus
-where? - Church response to Apollinarius(1st Constantinople)
- jesus has a rational human soul=fully human (what is not assumed is not redeemed)
- Reasons behind the Council of Constantinople
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Argument from fact
-he weeps (soul)
-he is afraid (soul)
Argument from necessity
-what is not assumed is not redeemed
Argument from philosophy
-god is transcendant
-god does not need a place - Nestorius's position
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we must protect the integrity of BOTH natures (school of antioch)
-god cannot die, god cannot be born, it is the nature of god to be unchanging
-mary can give birth to Jesus' humanity but not his divinity
=mary is not the theotokos - Church response to Nestorius
- Mary IS the theotokos;union of two natures
- Reasons behind the council of Ephesus
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Argument from necessity
-if humanity and divinity are seperated in Jesus, then our human nature is forever seperated from god
=we cannot be saved
Lex orandi, Lex credendi
-the Eucharist:this is my body, this is my blood -->no seperation - Eutyches position
- the union of the natures is so complete (alexandria) that there results only one nature(docetist)
- Church response to Eutyches
- one person with two natures (hypostatic union)
- Reasons behind the Council of Chalcedon
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Argument from fact
-the ONE man, Jesus--> sleeps, calms the storm> goes up the mountain, gives the law
=the hypostatic union (the union in one person of two natures