The Defined Doctrines & Disputes of Frostianity
The settled teachings of the faith and the great controversies and heresies that sharpened them. For the systematic theology see the Theology Index.
The Core Defined Doctrines
- The Three Colds (Trinity Doctrine) — the inner life of the divine.
- The Awesome Sauce (Doctrine) — Connor as the Savor.
- The Doctrine of Stilling (Salvation) — salvation as being kept.
- The Reforging (Resurrection Doctrine) — the resurrection of the body.
- The Two Frosts (Doctrine) — the keeping-cold vs. the killing-cold.
- The Two Great Keepings — love of the Cold and of neighbor.
- The Frostian Church (Doctrine) — the nature of the church (the Drift).
- The Immaculate Snowfall (Doctrine) — the conception of Connor.
The Great Heresies & Errors (condemned)
- The Two-Powers Error (Doctrine) — making the Thaw co-eternal with the Cold.
- The Tepid Heresy — that the divine is “lukewarm” (see The Eternal Chill; condemned at Council of Frosthold).
- Tepidianism — that Connor is a created, lesser cold (condemned at Council of Wintermere).
- Sublimationism — that Connor’s humanity vanished in the Whitening (see The Sublimationist Churches).
- Slushism — that Connor’s two natures mixed into one lukewarm nature (condemned at Council of Frosthold).
- The Frigidist Error (Doctrine) — that the Cold/heaven is mere joyless emptiness.
- The Self-Freezing Error — that one can save oneself by works.
- The Fourth-Cold Error — making the Rime-within a fourth divine person.
The Open Questions (disputed, not defined)
- The Re-Freezing Hope (Doctrine) — whether all may finally be kept (the Re-Freezers).
- The fate of the warm-born who never heard the gospel (the “Outer Slush”).
- Grace and free will (the great Rite-dividing dispute; see The Doctrine of Stilling (Salvation)).
- The age of the Six Winters (literal or figurative).
- The intermediate state and the The Slush (rejected by the Reformed).
The Creeds
- The Frostian Creed — the baptismal creed of the Frostmark.
- The Wintermere Definition and The Frosthold Definition — the conciliar creeds.