Mother of God? - 9 April 2010 |
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These are the remaining questions for week 19 of the Guided Reading Course, when we’ll be considering the second half of chapter 1 and chapter 2 of Thomas G. Weinandy’s Does God Change? The Word’s becoming in the incarnation (Still River: St Bede’s, 1985).
Before you begin, ask yourself this question: Should we describe Mary as “Mother of God”?
Chapter 1
9. How did Apollinarius understand the incarnation? What did his position have in common with Arius? (pp. 25-26)
10. Explain the problems with Apollinarius’s Christology (pp. 27-29).
11. What implication of Nicea does Weinandy believe that Arius, Athanasius and Apollinarius failed to grasp (pp. 30-31)?
12. How did Theodore of Mopsuestia understand “human nature” (pp. 34-35)? How did this reflect his philosophical background (pp. 32-33)?
13. What, according to Theodore of Mopsuestia, does it mean to say “God became man” (pp. 35-37)?
14. How does Nestorius’s refusal to call Mary theotokos (Mother of God) illustrate his Christology (p. 38)?
15. How does Nestorius understand the relationship between the two prosopa of Christ’s human and divine natures (p. 43)? Does he succeed in articulating “a true substantial union” between them (p. 44)?
16. What does Kelly mean when he says that Nestorius “does not fully see the metaphysical structure of the word ‘Christ’” (p. 45)?
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