the history of theology
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History of Theology
Putting it all into Perspective
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Outline
I. Reason for the Study
II. Theology
III. Christology
IV. Doctrine of the Atonement
V. Ecclesiology
VI. Bibliology
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I. Reason for the Study
• To appreciate and respect our orthodox heritage knowing that we learn in a community.
• To benefit from the giftedness of the entire body of Christ (Church Universal/Invisible).
• To understand that doctrine was developed progressively.
• To gain greater confidence in our faith.• To realize that while truth is unchangeable, our
understanding of truth is not.
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II. Theology
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Early Church Theology
Council of Nicea 325
381Council of Constantinople
ca. 400Athanasian Creed
311Peace
265Council of Antioch
Gnosticism
Ebionism Modalism Arianism
1 BC 500 BC
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Definition of God
One God who in three persons,the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all of which are fully God, all of which are equal.
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Modern Church Theology
1. Mormons (10 million +)• Christ is the product of a sexual relationship
between the Father and a goddess. Satan is his brother.
2. Jehovah’s Witnesses• Jesus (also known as Michael the archangel) is
a creation and the Holy Spirit is a force.
3. Muslims• There is one God, Allah. Christ was a great
prophet.
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Modern Church Theology
4. Oneness Pentecostals– Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one
person who reveals Himself in three different forms.
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Questions/Comments
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A Christological Christmas
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“Many people have sought to be God, but only one God has sought to be
man”
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Christiological Heresy
Nestorius
Apollinarianism
390 400 430
Eutychianism
451
Creed of Chalcedon
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The God-Man
• The Incarnation: The third Person of the Trinity took on an additional nature.
• Hypostatic Union: Christ is fully God and fully man (“very God, and very man).
• Two natures, one person.
• Theanthropos: The God-man.
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Why is it so important that Christ be both fully God
and fully man?
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What did Christ mean when He said in the
garden, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will,
but Yours be done.“? (Luke 22:42)
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What did Christ mean on the Cross when He said, “My God My God, why
have you forsaken me?“? (Matt 27:46)
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Questions/Comments
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IV. Doctrine of the Atonement (The Work of Christ)
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What does it mean that Christ died for us?
(Mark 10:45)
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Defining “For”
Ransom to Satan
100 1200
Recapitulation
500
Substitutionary
Penal, Substitution
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False Definitions of the Atonement• Ransom to Satan (Origen, 250)
– Satan is the one who we were held in bondage by.
– In truth, we were held in bondage to Satan by God.
• Moral influence (Abelard, 1100)– Christ’s death did not pay for sins, but it softens
sinners hearts to repent as they see him on the Cross.
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False Definitions of the Atonement
• Example (Socinus, 1600)– Christ’s death was an example of obedience,
not a substitution.
• Governmental, (Grotius 1600)– Christ fulfilled God’s governmental Law
thereby enabling God to forgive.
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Penal Substitution
• Penal– Legal satisfaction of God’s righteousness
• Substitutionary– Christ died in our place. He took our
punishment.
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What passage in the Bible teaches penal substitution
more than any other?
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Isaiah 53: 4-11“Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; . . . But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. . . . the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. . . He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? . . . By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. . . . Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.”
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Atonement Question
• If Christ was our exact substitution (and He was), does that mean that we were destined to die on the Cross?
• Why isn’t Christ still in Hell paying for the countless millions of believer’s sins?
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Questions/Comments
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V. Ecclesiology
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Alexandria
RomeConstantinople
(The New Rome)
Antioch
JerusalemHistory of the ChurchHippo
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Alexandria
RomeConstantinople
(The New Rome)
Antioch
JerusalemHippoInvasion of Islam
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RomeConstantinople
(The New Rome)
History of the Church
Iconoclasm
Folique
Fight for SupremecySplit1054
Eastern OrthodoxCatholic
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Rome
History of the Church
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100 AD 1200 1500500Corruption
Greek Orthodox1059
Loss of Gospel
Protestant
Roman Catholic
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Questions/Comments
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VI. Bibliology
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90
O.T.Council of Jamnia
150
Marcion
303
DiocletianAll sacred
books destroyed
397
Council of Cathage accepts 27
books of OT Vulgate
400 1645
Council of Trent
Canonicity
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Churches view of Inspiration
100 AD 1979
TraditionReformation
1517 1800
Liberalism
Eva
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Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy
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Questions/Comments
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Application
• Learn from the great historians of the past.• Doctrine was developed by Spirit led men
of God who were continually reworking their theology. – We also must be willing to advance in our
theological understanding.
• Just as doctrine was developed only when trouble came, so it is with the Christian life.
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Questions/Comments
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Possible tests for canonicity1. Apostilicity: was it written by an Apostle
or a close associate of an apostle
2. Acceptance by the Church: did the early Chruch (Clement, Ignatius, etc.) accept it.
3. Doctrine: was it orthodox.
4. Was it inspired: did it evidence the work of the Holy Spirit.
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Vulgate
• Translation done by St. Jerome of the LXX into Latin.
• Became the official Bible of the Church.
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Deuderocanonical Books
• Also called the Apocrypha
• Lit. “Second Canon”
• Placed in the Vulgate against the will of Jerome.
• Disputed for the next 1200 years.
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Apollinarianism (c. 310-c. 390)
Human /SpiritMind
Human Body
Divine Logos
Human Soul
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Apollinarianism (c. 310-c. 390)Condemned at the council of Constantinople 381
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Apollinarianism (c. 310-c. 390)
“He assumes that man who came down from above is without a mind, not that the Godhead of the Only-begotten fulfills the function of mind, and is the third part of his human composite, inasmuch as soul and body are in it on its human side, but not mind, the place of which is taken by God the Word.”—Gregory of Nazianzus (329/30-389/90)
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Nestorius (b. after 351- d. after 451)
Human Person Divine Person
Separate
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Nestorius (b. after 351- d. after 451)• Denied the term Theotokos
• Affirmed the term Christotokos
• Condemned at the council of Ephesus 431
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Eutychianism (c. 378-c. 454)
Human
Divine
Humine
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Eutychianism (c. 378-c. 454)• Did not deny they humanity of Christ.
• Did not separate the natures.
• Mixed the two natures.
• Condemned at the Council of Chalcedon 451
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Creed of Chalcedon“Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a reasonable soul and body; of one substance with the Father as regards his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood; like us in all respects, apart from sin; as regards his Godhead, begotten of the Father before the ages, but yet as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin, the God-bearer;
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one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence, not as parted or separated into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ; even as the prophets from earliest times spoke of him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the creed of the fathers has handed down to us.
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Nicene CreedWe believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty,
of all that is, seen and unseen.We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,true God from true God,
begotten, not made,of one Being with the Father.
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Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was
crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he
rose again in accordance with the Scriptures;he ascended into heaven and is
seated at the right hand of the Father.
Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was
crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he
rose again in accordance with the Scriptures;he ascended into heaven and is
seated at the right hand of the Father.
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He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,and his kingdom will
have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the
Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the
Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life
of the world to come. Amen.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,and his kingdom will
have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the
Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the
Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life
of the world to come. Amen.
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Filioque
• Phrase added to the Niceno-Constantinoplan creed in 589A,D at the 3rd council of Toledo. Lit., “and the Son.” Added to clarify the procession of the Holy Spirit, He proceeds from the Father and the Son. The Eastern Church saw this as a compromise of the Spirit’s equality with the Son.
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Definitions1. Ebionism: Early Jewish belief that Jesus was a prophet who came to aid the poor.2. Modalism: There is one God who displays Himself in three different ways/modes/manifestations (not persons).3. Gnosticism: Dualists who believed that Christ was the greatest in a series of emanations from God. 5. Arianism: Promoted in the 4th century by a monk named Arius. Believed that since Christ was begotten then, “There was a time when Christ was not.” Christ is the first created being.6. Council of Nicea: First ecumenical (universal church) council. Convened in 325. Condemned the teachings of Arius. First official statement on the Trinity.
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Timeline of Doctrinal Development
Theology (200-400)
Bibliology (150-400)
Christology (300-451)
Doctrine of the
Atonement (ca. 1100)
Soteriology (15th Century)
Eschatology(19th-20th Century)