HERESIES WHAT IT IS COUNCIL COUNCIL SAID REFERENCE Ebionism Js – normal human being, Not divine Not born of virgin, he is a messiah Docetism Js – not human but divine (seemed to be appeared as human)- God cannot suffer (he didn’t really suffer Marcionism (by Marcion) Yahweh of OT is cruel, God of NT is loving Js – son & messenger of real God appears to be human. No incarnation Gnosticism Js – not human. Heavenly Christ assumed bodily form to communicate true kge. Sal only through kge. Arianism Logos – has a beginning, Created by God before anything. It is neither God nor human being but composite intermediary being (more than human being) Nicea I (325) Js – God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, one in being with the Fr ND 7 Nestorianism (by Nestorius) Divine and human qualities remain separate in Jesus. Mary is not theotokos but Christotokos Ephesus (431) Two natures in Christ. Distinction but not separation among them. Mary is truly theotokos Monophysitism Human nature in Js is absorbed into divine nature. No separate identity of human nature. Chalcedon (451) Js is one person, – but divine and human – one like any of us (experiences pain,…) but never gives into them because of his Abba relationship with the Father. He is true God, because in him God is with us. He is the only source of our Sal. He is true man because in him our existence is realised. He is one and the same, God and man because in this union the entire creation with its origin and end is rooted. ND 614 Adoptionism Js – an ordinary person, at baptism he received Holy Spirit and became divine. Macedonianism Denied the divinity of Holy Spirit Constantinople I (381) Holy Spirit is equal to the Father and Son Jesus is truly human Pneumatology ND 12 Monothelitism One will in Christ and that is divine Constanti’ple III (680-81) Two wills Iconoclasm Use of images is idolatry Constanti’ple IV (869-70) Nicea II (787) Adoptionism Js – not the son of God by nature but created being and adopted to divine during baptism Nicea II (787) Modellism Monarchianism Sabelianism - Father, Son, H.S are 3 modes (manner) in which God appears himself in human history - Christ got his divinity during his baptism - Denied Christ’s divinity - God was once Father, another time Son and another time H.S Lateran II (1139) by Innocent II Holy Order is an invalidating impediment to marriage (disciplinary measures against a schism organized by anti pope Anacletus) Lateran IV (1215) 1st official use of the term ‘Transubstantiation’ Florance (1431-45) Supremacy of the Pope not the council Subordinationism (paul of Samoso Reformation Trent (1545 –63) Heresy

HERESIES	WHAT IT IS	COUNCIL	COUNCIL SAID	REFERENCE
Ebionism	Js – normal human being, Not divine        Not born of virgin, he is a messiah
Docetism	Js – not human but divine (seemed to be appeared as human)- God cannot suffer (he didn’t really suffer
Marcionism (by Marcion)	Yahweh of OT is cruel, God of NT is loving Js – son & messenger of real God        appears to be human.  No incarnation
Gnosticism	Js – not human. Heavenly Christ assumed bodily form to communicate true kge. Sal only through kge.
Arianism	Logos – has a beginning, Created by God before anything.  It is neither God nor human being but composite intermediary being (more than human being)	Nicea I (325)	Js – God from God, light from light,        true God from true God,        begotten not made,        one in being with the Fr	ND 7
Nestorianism (by Nestorius)	Divine and human qualities remain separate in Jesus.  Mary is not theotokos but Christotokos	Ephesus (431)	Two natures in Christ.  Distinction but not separation among them.  Mary is truly theotokos
Monophysitism	Human nature in Js is absorbed into divine nature.  No separate identity of human nature.	Chalcedon (451)	Js is one person, – but divine and human – one like any of us (experiences pain,…) but never gives into them because of his Abba relationship with the Father.  He is true God, because in him God is with us.  He is the only source of our Sal.  He is true man because in him our existence is realised. He is one and the same, God and man because in this union the entire creation with its origin and end is rooted.	ND 614
Adoptionism	Js – an ordinary person, at baptism he        received Holy Spirit and became divine.
Macedonianism	Denied the divinity of Holy Spirit	Constantinople I (381)	Holy Spirit is equal to the Father and Son Jesus is truly human	Pneumatology ND 12
Monothelitism	One will in Christ and that is divine	Constanti’ple III (680-81)	Two wills
Iconoclasm	Use of images is idolatry	Constanti’ple IV (869-70) Nicea II (787)
Adoptionism	Js – not the son of God by nature but created      being and adopted to divine during baptism	Nicea II (787)
Modellism Monarchianism Sabelianism	- Father, Son, H.S are 3 modes (manner) in which God appears  himself in human history - Christ got his divinity during his baptism - Denied Christ’s divinity - God was once Father, another time Son and another time H.S
		Lateran II (1139) by Innocent II	Holy Order is an invalidating impediment to marriage (disciplinary measures against a schism organized by anti pope Anacletus)
		Lateran IV (1215)	1st official use of the term ‘Transubstantiation’
		Florance (1431-45)	Supremacy of the Pope not the council
Subordinationism (paul of Samoso
Reformation		Trent (1545 –63)