Chapter 2 Vocab

1.    A word meaning “revelation” or “unveiling.” It is a word often associated with the end times or the second coming of Christ. Also, apocalyptic writing is the name of a literary genre in the Bible that uses inspired, highly symbolic language to bolster faith by reassuring believers that the current age, subject to forces of evil, will end when God intervenes and establishes a divine rule of goodness and peace.

• Apocalypse

• Arianism

• Christology

• Church Fathers

A heresy common in certain times and in certain places during the early Church that denied that Jesus was truly God; named after Arius (AD 250–336), a priest and popular preacher from Alexandria, Egypt.

• Arianism

• Docetism

• Nestorianism

• Christology

The branch of theology that studies the meaning of the person and works of Jesus Christ.

• Arianism

• Christology

• apocalypse

• Nestorianism

Bishops, theologians, teachers, and scholars whose writings have greatly contributed to Church doctrine and practice.

• Church Fathers

• Docetism

• Nestorianism

• Synoptic Gospels

    A first-century heresy that taught that Jesus only “seemed” to be human. Docetism comes from a Greek word meaning “to seem.”

• Docetism

• Monophysitism

• Nestorianism

• Nicene Creed

The union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person (Greek: hypostasis) of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

• Hypostatic union

• Person

• Nature

• Nestorianism

  From the Greek words monos, which means “one” or “alone,” and physis, which means “nature,” a fifth-century heresy that promoted the error that Jesus had only one nature, a divine nature. In response, the Church taught that Christ has two natures, divine and human.

• Hypostatic union

• Monophysitism

• Synoptic Gospels

• Nicene Creed

A fifth-century heresy that taught that Christ exists as two persons—the man Jesus and the divine Son of God.

• Nestorianism

• Apocalypse

• Arianism

• Church Fathers

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which, because of their similarities, can be “seen together” in parallel columns and mutually compared.

• Synoptic Gospels

• Nicene Creed

• Hypostatic union

• Church Fathers

The profession of faith, common to the churches of the East and the West, which came from the first two ecumenical councils (Nicaea and Constantinople: 325 and 381 A.D.)

• Nicene Creed

• Docetism

• Christology

• Church Fathers