Week 4 Theology Vocabulary Quiz

What is the study of the person and work of Jesus Christ called?

• Ecclesiology

• Soteriology

• Pneumatology

• Christology

What is the theological term for the self-emptying of Jesus Christ?

• Hypostatic Union

• Kenosis

• Docetism

• Patripassianism

What is the union of the two natures, divine and human, in the one person of Jesus Christ called?

• Dualism

• Hypostatic Union

• Kenosis

• Adoptionism

Which council established teachings about the person of Jesus Christ and reaffirmed the Councils of Nicea and Constantinople?

• First Council of Nicaea

• Council of Ephesus

• Council of Chalcedon

• Council of Trent

What is the 3rd century view that the Son is a form of the Father and that therefore the Father actively suffered on the cross in the death of Jesus called?

• Patripassianism

• Docetism

• Adoptionism

• Fideism

What is the belief that Jesus only seemed or appeared to have a human body and to be a human person called?

• Docetism

• Adoptionism

• Hypostatic Union

• Kenosis

Which view of Jesus Christ sees him as a human who was adopted or chosen by God to be elevated into being God's divine Son or a member of the Trinity?

• Dualism

• Adoptionism

• Hypostatic Union

• Kenosis

What does the term 'dualism' refer to in theology?

• The belief in the existence of two gods

• The belief in the existence of no god

• The belief in the existence of one god

• The belief in the existence of three gods

What is the view that faith rather than reason is the means by which Christian truth is known called?

• Hypostatic Union

• Kenosis

• Fideism

• Adoptionism

Who is the Jesus of Nazareth who lived in history and whose life can be studied by the methods and tools of historical research?

• The Christ of faith

• The Historical Jesus

• The Gnostic Jesus

• The Nestorian Jesus