NOTES: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH

*GNOSTICISM: 1st& 2nd Century
*DOCETISM: 2nd Century
*MONTANISM: 2nd 1/2 of 2nd Century
*SABELLIANISM: 2nd-3rd Century
*ARIANISM: early 4th Century
*NESTORIANISM: 5th Century
*MONOPHYSITISM: 5th & 6th Century

-325 Cousil of Nicea
Nicene Creed
Arian Heresy

Letters, Stories, Sayings to
Rigorous Doctrines, Creeds (Gospels, Paul's letters, NT)

Worship of Mary:
1)Influence of Greco-Roman & Egyptian paganism-goddess worship, virgin goddess with sons
2)Development of Jesus and his divinity
-made him seem remote
-people couldn't relate to him - humanity deemphasized
3)Ascetic Monastic emphasis on celibacy - pertpetual virginity

Why "Christians" pray to Mary:
-Assumption into Heaven
-Immaculate conception~Mary was born without sin
-Assumption of Mary that she was special and do her body was automatically taken to Heaven.
-Mother of Savior sinless, otherwise savior not sinless