key words

• Son of God

  A term for Jesus that emphasises he is God incarnate, one of the three persons of he tinity
• Liberator

  a general term for someone who frees a people or group
• Rabbi

  A Jewish teacher, often associated with having followers
• Hypostatic union

  the belief that Christ is both fully God and fully human, indivisible, two natures united in one person
• Homoousious

  of the same substance or of the same being
• Word

  from the Greek logos, another name for the second person of the trinity, used at the beginning of John's Gospel to describe the incarnation which existed from the beginning, of one substance and equal to God the father
• Redemption

  the action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil
• incarnation

  God born as a human being, in Jesus Christ
• Zealot

  a member of the Jewish political/ military movement that fought against Rome in the first century
• Messiah

  In Christianity, the word is associated with Jesus Christ, who is believed to be the son of God and the Saviour. In Judaism the word is associated with individuals who rose up against oppression, the people of Israel