Constantine remained the high priest of the official pagan religion of Rome throughout his reign.

Modalism is also known as Adoptionism.

After the Council of Nicaea, Constantine sided with the Arians?

 Arius died just after being reinstated as a Bishop in a special ceremony in Constantinople.

Athanasius was exiled 5 times for a total of 17 years out of his 46 in which he served as a bishop.

Athanasius argued, if God is Father, then the Son must be God as well, for otherwise the God would have changed in becoming the Father.

According to Athanasius, if Jesus was the incarnation of the great logos, he would still be able to bring humanity into a closer relationship with God.

Jesus Christ is one substance with the Father according to the Athanasius and the Cappadocians.

Central to the argument of the Cappadocians is that God is one hypostasis and three ousios.

The Cappadocians argued that unbegotten is to eternity, as begotten is to temporal.

The Cappadocians argued that just as in human relationships, the divine son, as begotten, is subordinate to the divine Father.

What happened at the battle of Milvian Bridge?

After seeing a vision, under what sign did Constantine conquer?

When was Constantine Baptized?

Where did Constantine move the capital of the Empire?

Constantine’s legalizing of Christianity had what effect on the church?

What heresy divided the church during Constantine’s reign, to an extent that no other heresy had before?

What was Constantine’s primary concern with the problem of heresy in the church?

What year was the Edict of Milan issued?

What did the Edict of Milan do?

Which heresy held that the Father, Son, and Spirit were three names for one reality appearing in three different guises?

Which heresy held that Jesus was a man specially adopted by God and so filled with the fullness of the divine presence?

Which heresy held that Jesus was a special creation of God, for Jesus was subordinate to the Father not only in function, but also in essence?

What did Alexander and Athanasius argue against Arianism?

What does homoousios mean?

What does homoiousios mean?

Who was the primary opponent of the Arian Heresy when it first became popular?

In what city did the Arian Heresy first break out?

Which view believed that Jesus was not the incarnation of God, but instead the incarnation of a great creature of God – the Logos? This creature had a beginning and remained forever subordinate to the Father. He is subordinate both in role and being.

Who represented Arianism at the Council of Nicaea?

Which heresy attempted to hijack the general language of the Nicene Creed for their own purposes?

“But those who say: 'There was a time when he was not;' and 'He was not before he was made;' and 'He was made out of nothing,' or 'He is of another substance' or 'essence,' or 'The Son of God is created,' or 'changeable,' or 'alterable' — they are condemned by the holy catholic and apostolic Church.” This condemnation is in direct response to what view?

Who opposed the idea of bringing Arius back from Exile?

Who promoted the view of homoiousios instead of homoousios?

What does hypostasis mean?

Who was not one of the Three Cappadocians?

Basil of Caesarea wrote definitive works on the personhood of whom, ensuring his inclusion in the Trinity?

The Three Cappadocians argued that God’s very essence is what?

The Arians argued that God’s very essence is what?

Just as the Cappadocians argued about Christ’s divinity, it was argued at Chalcedon that if Christ was not fully human he could not what?

the belief that Jesus was not in any sense God, but only a human prophet adopted by God into a special relationship.

the belief that Jesus was not the incarnation of God, but instead the incarnation of a great creature of God – the Logos. This creature had a beginning and remained forever subordinate to the Father. He is subordinate both in role and being.

Latin: of one substance

a person’s partial participation in God’s own immortal energy and life.

(1a) of, relating to, or representing the whole of a body of churches or promoting: (1b) tending toward worldwide Christian unity or cooperation. (2) worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application

(1a) the permanent as contrasted with the accidental element of being: (1b) the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing especially as opposed to its existence. I.e. a painting that captures the essence of the land: (1c) the properties or attributes by means of which something can be placed in its proper class or identified as being what it is

Greek: of similar substance

Greek: of one substance or of the same substance

“Person”, “individual substance”, or “common substance.”

to describe what happened when the second person of the Trinity, the eternal Son of God, "became flesh" as he was miraculously conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary. In this the divine nature of the Son was perfectly united with human nature in one divine Person.

Also called Sabellianism; belief that the Father, Son, and Spirit were merely different names, aspects, or masks of one divine person.

Greek: Substance

one who has an identity or individuality as a rational being, conscious of its own existence.

Also called modalism; belief that the Father, Son, and Spirit were merely different names, aspects, or masks of one divine person.

(1) lower in rank or position; (2) a person under the authority or control of another

is an heretical view that God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are not merely relationally subordinate to God the Father, but also subordinate in nature and being.

an assembly of the clergy and sometimes also the laity in a diocese or other division of a particular Church.

Greek: God-Bearer, in Eastern Orthodoxy, the designation of the Virgin Mary as mother of God.

The First Council of Nicaea

The First Council of Constantinople

The Council of Ephesus

The Council of Chalcedon

337

250 - 336

296 - 373

312

329 - 391

330 - 377

331 - 363

340 - 393

354 - 430

A religious belief based on divine revelation, especially one regarded as beyond human understanding

Severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons

The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. (2) a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them.

Unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

One who is hostile to or denies the divinity or personality of the Holy Spirit. specifically : a member of a 4th century sect under the leadership of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, holding the Holy Ghost to be a creature or created being.

The incarnate Christ took on a human body, but does not have a human nature. He was only divine.

The view that God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are not merely relationally subordinate to God the Father, but also subordinate in nature and being.

This view stresses the absolute, uncompromising unity of God in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity, which is often lambasted as veiled tritheism by nontrinitarian Christians and other monotheists.

Refers to the essence or substance (ousia) of God in Christianity — God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The permanent as contrasted with the accidental element of being: (1b) the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing especially as opposed to its existence. (1c) the properties or attributes by means of which something can be placed in its proper class or identified as being what it is

Typically of a man, sometimes of a man and a woman bring a child into existence by the process of reproduction. (2) give rise to; bring about.

rejected the Old Testament as Christian scriptures, arguing the god of the Old Testament incompatible with the God represented by Jesus. Only a shortened version of Luke and the epistles of Paul were considered scripture.

government of a Church by bishops

the belief that Jesus was fully God, but only appeared to be human

Literally meaning “rule” or “standard.” The collection of books that the church recognizes as the written Word of God

27 B.C.-14 A.D

4 or 6 B.C

48 A.D.

70 A.D.

135 A.D.

"Labradoodle-jesus"

"God-in-Bod"

"Gollum-Smeagol-jesus"