Objectives

When you complete this lesson, you should be able to do the following:

• Explain the connection between the doctrines of the Work of Christ and Person of Christ.
• Identify a biblical basis for confession that Christ Jesus is fully God and fully Man in messianic expectation of the OT and apostolic witness of the NT.
• Describe the debate between Arius and Athanasius and define “subordinationism.”
• Identify the divergent trajectories of the Alexandrian and Antiochene schools of thought on the Person of Christ.
• Describe the contributions of Cyril and Leo I to the debate about Christ’s natures.
• Define “hypostatic union.”
• Restate the four “withouts” of the Chalcedonian rule of faith.

As you proceed through this lesson have the following question in mind.
I sometimes hear people say, “I think Jesus was great – an awesome teacher and extraordinary man. But he wasn’t God.” How, biblically, would you respond to this claim?