Title: New Religious Movements Gore
1New Religious Movements (Gore)
Classical Orthodoxy Ecumenical Councils
1) Council of Nicea (325)
Conflict between Antioch and Alexandria
2 3New Religious Movements (Gore)
Classical Orthodoxy Ecumenical Councils
1) Council of Nicea (325)
Conflict between Antioch and Alexandria
Antioch Jewish emphasis replaced Jerusalem
Alexandria Greek emphasis replaced Athens
Arian controversy provoked Nicene Council
Church affirmed Trinity One Essence Three
Persons
4New Religious Movements (Gore)
Classical Orthodoxy Ecumenical Councils
1) Council of Nicea (325) - Trinity
2) Council of Constantinople (381)
Provoked by Apollinarian Controversy
Christ affirmed to be 1/3 God and 2/3 Man
5New Religious Movements (Gore)
Classical Orthodoxy Ecumenical Councils
1) Council of Nicea (325) - Trinity
2) Council of Constantinople (381)
3) Council of Ephesus (431)
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7New Religious Movements (Gore)
Classical Orthodoxy Ecumenical Councils
1) Council of Nicea (325) - Trinity
2) Council of Constantinople (381)
3) Council of Ephesus (431)
Provoked by Nestorian Controversy
Christ affirmed to be two natures and two persons
8New Religious Movements (Gore)
Classical Orthodoxy Ecumenical Councils
1) Council of Nicea (325) - Trinity
2) Council of Constantinople (381)
3) Council of Ephesus (431)
4) Council of Chalcedon (451)
Provoked by Eutychian controversy
Christ affirmed to be one nature and one person
Conclusion Christ is two natures in one person
Four negatives Without mixture, conversion,
separation, or division
9New Religious Movements (Gore)
Classical Orthodoxy Ecumenical Councils
1) Council of Nicea (325) - Trinity
2) Council of Constantinople (381)
3) Council of Ephesus (431)
4) Council of Chalcedon (451) Dual Nature of
Christ
5) Second Council of Constantinople (553)
Rejected monophysite heresy
6) Third Council of Constantinople (681)
Rejected monothelite heresy
7) Second Council of Nicea (787)
Clarified use of icons in worship
10Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
11Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
12Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
13Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
14Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
15Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
16Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
17Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
18Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
19Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
20Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
21Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Example Roman Catholic
Example Quaker
1) Visible over Invisible
1) Invisible over Visible
2) Episcopal Governance
2) Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership incidental
22Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
23Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Middle - Reformed
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
24Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Middle - Reformed
1) Delicate Balance
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
25Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Middle - Reformed
1) Delicate Balance
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
2) Presbyterial Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
26Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Middle - Reformed
1) Delicate Balance
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
2) Presbyterial Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
3) Confessional
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
27Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Middle - Reformed
1) Delicate Balance
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
2) Presbyterial Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
3) Confessional
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
4) Politically Prophetic
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
28Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Middle - Reformed
1) Delicate Balance
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
2) Presbyterial Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
3) Confessional
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
4) Politically Prophetic
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
5) Word precedes Sacrament
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
29Variations within Classical Orthodoxy
Right leaning traditions
Left leaning traditions
Middle - Reformed
1) Delicate Balance
2) Episcopal Governance
- Congregational Governance
2) Presbyterial Governance
3) Authoritarian
3) Conscientious
3) Confessional
4) Political Integration
4) Political Separation
4) Politically Prophetic
5) Sacramental
5) Evangelical
5) Word precedes Sacrament
6) Membership Crucial
6) Membership Incidental
6) Membership essential but not dispositive
30Variations outside of Orthodoxy
31Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
32Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
33Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic pronouncements of cult leader all
important. Submission and obedience are mandatory.
34Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic pronouncements of cult leader all
important. Submission and obedience are mandatory.
1) Relativistic inner belief is all important,
is reality. You make your own truth
subjectivism.
35Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic inner belief is all important,
is reality. You make your own truth
subjectivism.
2) Ethical man is good in ethical direction
salvation comes by works of virtue, service,
obedience, loyalty. Service for God rather than
union with God.
36Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical man is good in ethical direction
salvation comes by works of virtue, service,
obedience, loyalty. Service for God rather than
union with God.
2) Mystical man is good in mystical direction
and salvation comes by higher mystical
experience, especially becoming God, losing
ones self in the divine reality
37Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical man is good in mystical direction
and salvation comes by higher mystical
experience, especially becoming God, losing
ones self in the divine reality
3) Emphasis on the humanity of Christ deity is
obscured. We should follow the example of Jesus
objective.
38Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Emphasis on the humanity of Christ deity is
obscured. We should follow the example of Jesus
objective.
3) Emphasis on divinity (spirituality) of Christ
humanity obscured. We should discover the
Christ within.
39Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Emphasis on divinity (spirituality) of Christ
humanity obscured. We should discover the
Christ within.
4) Gnostic leadership leaders have special
knowledge accessible to none but leader
hierarchical creative thinking forbidden view
the Bible as the leader dictates
40Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Gnostic leadership leaders have special
knowledge accessible to none but leader
hierarchical creative thinking forbidden view
the Bible as the leader dictates
4) Gnostic leadership leaders have special
knowledge accessible to all egalitarian
creative thinking encouraged view the Bible as
you wish
41Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership dominates and God is viewed
in masculine categories demanding,
transcendent, judging, intolerant, exacting,
exclusive
42Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership dominates and God is viewed
in masculine categories demanding,
transcendent, judging, intolerant, exacting,
exclusive
5) Female leadership dominates and God is
viewed in feminine categories nurturing,
helping, immanent, non-judgmental, tolerant,
lenient, inclusive
43Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic God is one (Islamic sense) and
is generally not reachable except through the
cult leader
44Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic
6. Pantheistic God is in everything, especially
in each person
45Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic
6. Pantheistic God is in everything, especially
in each person
7) Emphasis on personal rigor, asceticism,
discipline, health and happiness later.
46Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic
6) Pantheistic
7) Emphasis on personal rigor, asceticism,
discipline, health and happiness later.
7) Emphasis on personal pleasure, wholeness,
enjoyment, health and happiness now
47Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic
6) Pantheistic
7) Personal Discipline
7) Emphasis on personal pleasure, wholeness,
enjoyment, health and happiness now
8) Unrealized eschatology of future reward and
individual happiness in paradisiacal situation
48Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic
6) Pantheistic
7) Personal Discipline
7) Personal Pleasure
8) Unrealized eschatology
8) Realized eschatology of happiness and future
loss of personal identity in the great cosmic
over-soul nirvana
49Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic
6) Pantheistic
7) Personal Discipline
7) Personal Pleasure
8) Unrealized eschatology
8) Realized eschatology
Examples Mormonism, Jehovahs Witnesses, Seventh
Day Adventists, World Wide Church of God
50Variations outside of Orthodoxy
Left-leaning movements
Right-leaning movements
1) Dogmatic
1) Relativistic
2) Ethical
2) Mystical
3) Humanity of Christ
3) Deity of Christ
4) Hierarchical leadership
4) Egalitarian Leadership
5) Male leadership
5) Female leadership
6) Monotheistic
6) Pantheistic
7) Personal Discipline
7) Personal Pleasure
8) Unrealized eschatology
8) Realized eschatology
Examples Mormonism, Jehovahs Witnesses, Seventh
Day Adventists, World Wide Church of God
Examples Christian Science, Unity, Unification
Church, Hare Krishnas, Bahai, Scientology, New
Age