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Lesson 9

Development of Trinitarian Theology

Being a follower of Christ requires Christians to conform their minds and hearts to what the Church teaches about the Catholic Faith.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Deposit of Faith The Holy Trinity
Essential Lessons

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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Doctrine
    :
    (n.): Something we believe as Christians that is defined and taught by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
  • Dogma
    :
    (n.): A doctrine of the Church that has been divinely revealed to us.
  • Idol
    :
    (n.): A representation of a false god.
  • Heresy
    :
    (n.): The obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith.
  • Idolatry
    :
    (n.): The worship of false gods.
  • Ecumenical Council
    :
    (n.): A meeting of all the world’s bishops together in union with the pope.
  • Church Fathers
    :
    (n.): The bishops and teachers of the early Church.
  • Orthodox
    :
    (adj.): Correct teaching about the Christian Faith. Not to be confused with a member of the Eastern Orthodox church.
  • Gnosticism
    :
    (n.): The name given to a heresy of the early Church that taught, among other things, that Jesus was not fully human, the material world was evil, and salvation was achieved through secret knowledge, or gnosis.
  • Monarchianism/Modalism
    :
    (n.): The name given to a heresy of the early Church that taught that the three Persons of the Trinity were not distinct in themselves and there was only one divine Person who appeared in different ways.
  • Subordinationism
    :
    (n.): The name given to a heresy of the early Church that denied the divinity of the Son and the Holy Spirit, arguing that only the Father was fully divine.
  • Christological Heresies
    :
    (n.): The collective name for the various heresies of the early Church about the divine and human natures of Jesus Christ.
  • Hypostatic Union
    :
    (n.): The union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
  • Arianism
    :
    (n.): An influential heresy of the early Church that taught that Jesus, the Son of God, was created by God the Father, and therefore not truly equal to Him or of the same substance.
  • Homoousios
    :
    (adj.): Greek for “of the same being,” or “of the same substance”. The Latin word consubstantialitas is a translation of this word.
  • Nestorianism
    :
    (n.): The name given to a heresy of the early Church that divided Jesus into two persons, an eternal divine Person and a created human person who were closely connected but not one and the same.

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