person of christ

• hypostatic union


  term to describe Jesus as both fully god and fully human
• homoousious


  greek word meaning 'of the same substance' and is used to affirm Jesus is of the same essence of god
• logos


  is used in the gospel of John to describe Jesus as the 'word of god'
• incarnation


  term to describe Jesus taking on human flesh and becoming man
• messiah


  means 'anointed one' or 'chosen one' and refers to Jesus as the promised saviour
• the trinity


  a doctrine that describes the christian belief in one god in three persons: father, son and Holy Spirit
• biblical examples of Jesus having emotions

  • garden of gethsemane (Luke 22:40-46) - Jesus praying before he was arrested
  • grief over Lazarus (John 11:35) - Jesus wept over his friends death
  • ignorance who touched him in a crowd (Mark 5:30) - felt power leave him when someone touched him, it was by a lady who has chronic bleeding and was cured
• kenosis

  emptying - god emptied his non human qualities before incarnation CP: he could still perform miracles?
• scienta visionis


  consciousness the same as god, supernatural knowledge
• scienta infusa 


  an infused knowledge of god and humans (Jesus)
• Scienta experientiae


  regular human knowledge
• Karl Rahners explanation of Jesus' knowledge

  • human experience includes an unknown future therefore Jesus must not have the same awareness of the father while incarnated
  • Jesus is like an onion (layered)
  • self awareness is layered for all human beings
• Gerald O'Collins

  • self knowledge is complex
  • we are conscious of our own experience but we don't necessarily know our inner self
  • Jesus could be conscious of his divine self without 'knowing' it
  • "his basic awareness of sonship did not mean observing the presence of God, as if Jesus were facing an object out there"
• 3 examples of Jesus' miracles

  • healing the sick - blind man (John 9:1-41)
  • walking on water (mark 6:47-52)
  • calming the weather (mark 6:47-52)
• dunamis


  the power to carry out miracles
• theandric dunamis


  dunamis beng carried out by Jesus