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READING LISTin alphabetical order

Geoffrey !romiley "istorical #heology $ An %ntroduction ayne Grudem &ystematic #heology &tuart G "all Doctrine And 'ractise %n #he arly Church " C rend #he *ise +f Christianity

, D elly arly Christian Doctrines /ar A noll #urning 'oints $ Decisi1e /oments %n #he "istory +f

Christianity Anthony & ane #he Council +f icaea 'ur4oses And #hemes eedham 2000 ears +f Christs 'o7er ,ohn 'i4er #he Arian "eresy

*C &ite 777.ne7ad1ent.org ed. , &te1enson A e7 use8ius in loc. aler A "istory +f #he Christian Church

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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

1 Outbreak of ArianismThe Council of Nicaea (Arius; Athanasius)

c. A.D. 318-3!

Aftermath A.D. 3! on"ar#s

3 The Council of Constantino$le an# com$letion ofNicene Cree# A.D.381

% Aftermatha. The Council at &$hesus (A.D.%31) 'Nestorianism (theotokos)

b. The Council Of Chalce#on (A.D. %!1) 'eosTome; &ut*ches

A.D. 381-%!1

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RELEVANCE

Curriculum re:uirement

;nderstanding de1elo4ment of Christian

doctrine "ermeneutics

i8eralism

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A passin re!erence to Dan "ro#n$sThe da Vinci Code

Christianity is a cons4iracy to

su44ress 7omen ,esus 7as a feminist

Almost e1erything our fathers

taught us a8out Christ is false ,esus 7as married to /ary

/agdalene

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The role of Constantine

*es4onsi8le for canon

of &cri4ture &ome >0 Gos4els 7ere

su44ressed #he Gos4el accounts

are unrelia8le

,esus 7as deified at

the Council of icaeain A.D. 325

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OPTIONAL

eedham

Criti:ue of Dan !ro7ns #he da @inci Code

Dan !ro7n is guilty of mind-8oggling ignoranceor deli8erate lie

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- THE APOSTLES' CREED -1 I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

2 And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten on, our !ord:

" #ho $as %on%eived by the &oly Ghost, born of the 'irgin Mary:

( uffered under )ontius )ilate* $as %ru%ified, dead and buried: &e des%ended into hell:

+ he third day he rose again from the dead:

- &e as%ended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty:

. From then%e he shall %ome to /udge the 0ui%k and the dead:

I believe in the &oly Ghost:

I believe in the holy %atholi% %hur%h: the %ommunion of saints:

13 he forgiveness of sins:

11 he resurre%tion of the body:

12 And the life everlasting4 Amen4

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%E& AS'ECTS

&5 676!6GICA! 8I7I9

God is +ne /onotheism (Christian roots in ,udaism) +ne +usia (nature su8stance essence)

#he ather the &on and the "oly &4irit are God Deity of Christ 'ersonality of the "oly &4irit

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O(T"REA% O) ARIANISM

14 &A76;

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Sabellius Dia!ra" # - han$out%

'ro8a8ly 8orn in i8ya fl. around 2B?$c. 220 7hen he taught in

*ome =communicated +ur no7ledge of his teaching is mainly

gleaned from later sources 1iH. hiso44onents

"is teaching s4read to i8ya and gy4t

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MEANING&uccessi1e

stages ather creates

gi1es a7

&on redeems

"oly &4irit sa1es

#*/%++G

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'RO"LEMS

&a8ellianism a44ears to 4rotectmonotheism (/onarchianism) and thedeity of Christ &T

(ona$ NOT ontolo!i)al Trinit* Huipator

Patri+assionis"

The ,ather be)o"es His on Son an$

the Son has no in$e+en$ent e.isten)e (ar/ 10-112 3ohn 1012 et al4

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ORI5EN F#he #rinitarian doctrine de1elo4s in the dialectic

8et7een the +neness of God and the distinctionof the di1ine 4ersons. #he insistence on the

oneness 4redominant in the est finds itse=treme form in &a8ellianism (/odalism) 7hichdenies the real distinction of the di1ine 4erson.#he insistence on the distinction 4re1alent in the

ast 7ith +rigen as 4rimary re4resentati1e is indanger of 4lacing the ord on the le1el ofcreatures.