Christology
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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
The difference between us, when we're agreed about so much, is Christology.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not all the others accepted Yancey's Christology, but they all acknowledged prayer's expansion into compassion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other important Dutch liberal is Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx, whose first volume on Christology will be published in English by Seabury later this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this reason it leads over to a new Christology.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
But other Christologies also arose in Marcion's church, which is again a proof that it was not dependent on scholastic teaching, and therefore could take part in the later development of doctrines.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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 Buchanan, Neil
Yet, in spite of all transitional forms, the two Christologies may be clearly distinguished.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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a perfect isolated God, joined to a perfect isolated man, in what were indeed the incredible terms of the older and superseded Christologies.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 Fitch, Albert Parker
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 Buchanan, Neil
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