Theology of the Trinity

 

 

Theology of the Trinity

Part I. Short Answer. 30 Points.

Answer all five questions. Your answers should use most or all of each available line space. (5 questions, 6 points apiece.)

1. Give a brief definition of Monotheism _________________________________________

2. Name two items of Jewish belief ____________________________________________

3. Name two items of Jesus’ life that show his life to have a “Trinitarian face.” ___________________________________________________

4. For St. Paul, Jesus shares what Divine prerogative with the Father? _______________________

5. What false belief about Jesus Christ did Arius teach? ___________________________________

Part II. Short Essay. 30 points.

Answer any two of the following four questions (15 points apiece). Write five lines for your answer.

1. Write five lines about differences between monotheistic religions and other world religions.

2. Write five lines about the notion of God as, or like, a Father to Israel and Israelites in the Old Testament.

3. Write five lines about what the Letter to the Hebrews says about Father, Son, and Spirit.

4. Write five lines about what the Council of Nicaea says about the Father and the Son.

Part III. Essay. 40 points.

Answer any two of the following four questions (20 points apiece). Write eight lines for each of your answers.

1. Write eight lines about how the notions of Word, Wisdom, and Spirit help prefigure the Trinity in the Old Testament.

2. Write eight lines about what St. Paul says about One God, The Father, the Son, and the Spirit.

3. Write eight lines about what the First Council of Constantinople said about the Father, Son, and Spirit, and some errors it closed out

4. Write eight lines about what Saint Augustine says about the Trinitarian image of God in the human mind and its operations.

Part IV. Extra Credit. 5 points.

Answer any one of the following two questions.

1. Write five lines about St. Irenaeus’ notion of recapitulation or summing up.

2. Write five lines about the notion of Trinitarian missions in St. Augustine.

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