By: Alberto Nicko R.

Mateo VI
Reference:
 Gerald O’ Collins, Interpreting Jesus
Eugene Oregon: Wipf and stock
Publisher, 1983.
Topics to Discuss:
 History of Christology
 The New Testament Period
 The Patristic Period
 Middle Age
 Modern Times
 Present Issues
The New Testament Period
Seeing the post-existent of Jesus on
the divine level:
 Worshipped by his disciple
 Exalted in glory
 Resurrected
The Patristic Period
Foundational Reasoning about
Jesus Divinity and Humanity.
 Misinterpretations arise
 Stablishing the Doctrines
 Divine Divine and Human Human

1. Docetism – Having 5. Council of Nicaea – 2. Paul of Samosata –

apparent body Homoousios – One Adaptionism – adopted
Substance son of God
3. Sabellius – The 7. Council of 4. Arius – Perfect
persons are only modes Constantinople – having creature
of God true human soul
6. Apollinaris – “Flesh 9. St. Cyril of Alexandria 8. Nestorius – Theotokos
bearing God” – no – Humanity and divinity to Christotokos (point of
human soul is found in Logos view)
10. Eutyches – 11. Council of Chalcedon
Monophysis – having – Hypostatic union – the
one nature – the divine two nature exist in one
spirit consume the person without
human soul consuming the will of
the other
Terms
 Hypostasis – at first it is considered as
the common substance by Father, Son
and Holy Spirit but later on it became
the individuating factor of the Trinity. It
is equivalent to prosopon = person
 Ousia – the common substance of the
trinity.
Methods
 (The School of Alexandria) Logos
– Sarx– descending; from divinity
to humanity
 (School of Antioch) Logos –
Anthropos – ascending; from
humanity to divinity
The Middle Ages
 Cultivating the thoughts of
patristic period
 Paradigm Shift: From nature to
action
The Modern Times
 Science intervention: Scientific
History
The Present Issues
 The Thought of Jesus to Himself
 Meaning of Resurrection Event
 The effect of the Soteriological Action of
Christ
 Relation of the Divine and Human element
of Jesus
 Personal Relation to Jesus and the used of
terms