Christology
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Christologies
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the branch of theology dealing with the nature, person, and deeds of Jesus Christ.
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an interpretation of the nature, person, and deeds of Christ.
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He took one class, early Christology, but says he “spent more time trying to find a parking space” than in class and quickly dropped out.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2010
Though these theologians still profess belief that Christ is divine, conservative opponents maintain that in the New Christology, Christ is not as divine as he used to be.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the text of his 1933 lectures on Christology at the University of Berlin, which Bethge reconstructed from student notes.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We have had a Christology of the moral soul.'' he said, "a Christology of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
The systematic Christology of the fifth century was, therefore, a completion of the work begun in the first.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
The most popular of the three Christologies briefly characterised above was undoubtedly that of the Valentinians.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
Yet, in spite of all transitional forms, the two Christologies may be clearly distinguished.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
We do not see, then, in Christ, a perfect isolated God, joined to a perfect isolated man, in what were indeed the incredible terms of the older and superseded Christologies.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
As the exegesis of the Valentinian schools became the mother of numerous self-contradictory Christologies, so the same result was threatened here—"doctrinæ inolescentes in silvas iam exoleverunt Gnosticorum."
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
Docetism was elaborated by Valentinus, Manes and other gnostics and adopted into their systems, while ebionitism provided the basis for the Christologies of Paul of Samosata, of the Photinians and Adoptionists.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
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