Word: godhead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inside or outside of the sect can remember why or how Gibbs became their greater godhead, except to recall that the only existing statue of Gibbs is a bust. However, some have speculated that this small group chose Gibbs on account of his small achievements...
...church's early ecumenical councils to counter prevalent heresies that threatened to split the church. Those councils insisted that Jesus was really a man, not some sort of divine apparition. But they also asserted that he was the Son of God, part of the eternal Godhead. The first two councils crafted the Nicene Creed, which was formulated by A.D. 381 and has been recited at every Sunday Mass since the llth century: Jesus is "eternally begotten of the Father ... true God from true God ... one in Being with the Father." The Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) refined this further...
...Jesus is to be demoted from the Godhead, what faith remains? The authors do not want the sort of vague Christianity without Christ that Unitarianism has become since it dropped belief in the Trinity. Wiles sees two possibilities. The "stronger form" would avoid metaphysical claims about Jesus but insist that "his life and all that has stemmed from it" are essential to human faith. The "weaker form" would simply recognize the "contingent historical fact" that faith "came alive through the figure of Jesus" for those raised in Christian cultures. To another of the authors, Michael Goulder, a tutor in theology...
...called "the New Morality," rejecting absolute rules of right and wrong. After he resigned as Bishop of Woolwich and returned to Cambridge in 1969, Robinson wrote The Human Face of God, which criticized traditional formulations of the deity of Christ, particularly the idea that he preexisted in the Godhead before his birth...
...doubts that Christ preexisted in the Godhead before his human birth, and he believes the early church's definitions of the deity of Christ to be Hellenistic. To him the point is simply that God was present in Jesus, revealing himself and making known his claims on man and his offer of forgiveness. The test of being a Christian "is not assent to this or that dogma . . . but the acceptance of faith in Christ and imitation of Christ...