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Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christianity and Christian belief and practice. It concentrates primarily upon the texts of the Old Testament and of the New Testament , as well as on Christian tradition .
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity ( Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from Latin: trinus 'threefold') [1] is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: [2] [3] God the Father, God the Son ( Jesus Christ) and God the ...
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Nestorianism was condemned as heresy at the Council of Ephesus (431). The Armenian Church rejected the Council of Chalcedon (451) because they believed Chalcedonian Definition was too similar to Nestorianism. The Persian Nestorian Church, on the other hand, supported the spread of Nestorianism in Persarmenia. The Armenian Church and other eastern c...
Nestorianism is a radical form of dyophysitism, differing from orthodox dyophysitism on several points, mainly by opposition to the concept of hypostatic union. It can be seen as the antithesis to Eutychian Monophysitism, which emerged in reaction to Nestorianism. Where Nestorianism holds that Christ had two loosely united natures, divine and human...
Nestorianism became a distinct sect following the Nestorian Schism, beginning in the 430s. Nestorius had come under fire from Western theologians, most notably Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril had both theological and political reasons for attacking Nestorius; on top of feeling that Nestorianism was an error against true belief, he also wanted to denigra...
The western provinces of the Persian Empire had been home to Christian communities, headed by metropolitans, and later patriarchs of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. The Christian minority in Persia was frequently persecuted by the Zoroastrian majority, which accused local Christians of political leanings towards the Roman Empire. In 424, the Church in Persia d...
"Unofficial Web Site of the 'Church of the East'". Nestorian.org.Lieu, Sam; Parry, Ken. "Manichaean and (Nestorian) Christian Remains in Zayton (Quanzhou, South China)". Macquarie University. Archived from the original on July 19, 2008. Retrieved January 24, 2010.Dickens, Mark (1999). "The Church of the East". Oxus Communications. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2010.In Christianity, Christology is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus. Different denominations have different opinions on questions such as whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah what his role would be in the freeing of the Jewish people from foreign rulers or in the prophesied Kingdom of God , and in the salvation from ...
The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) can refer to any of several historically related Christian denominations that developed under the influence of the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). The Swedenborgian tradition is considered to be a part of Restorationist Christianity.
Christian theology as the study of Christian belief and practice concentrates primarily upon the texts of the Old Testament and the New Testament as well as on Christian tradition. Christian theologians use biblical exegesis, rational analysis and argument.
part iii historical survey of christian theology 417 16 Theology in the patristic era (c. 100–500) 419 17 Theology in the Middle Ages (c. 500–1400) 451 18 Theology in the Reformation period (c. 1400–1700) 479 19 Theology in modernity (c. 1700–1960) 507 20 Theology in the contemporary period (c. 1960–present) 543 Theological glossary 575
