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
Father Jean Galot, a Christology expert at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, fears that the essence of the faith is being challenged.
From Time Magazine Archive
Disputes over Christology are not limited to Catholics.
From Time Magazine Archive
The basic question is this: Does the Church have an authentic teaching on Christology?
From Time Magazine Archive
The Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews is identical in this vital point with that of St. Paul.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards
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
In the case of those Christologies which start with Christ as the heavenly spiritual being, it is found in the belief in an actual incarnation.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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
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
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