Christocentric
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For Barth the Word of God came to man in the person of Christ, and Dogmatics is a Christocentric exploration of that word.
From Time Magazine Archive
Princeton's best-known systematic theologian, Presbyterian George Stuart Hendry, says Barth's Christocentric approach forces many church doctrines into an artificial mold.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, while he conceives Christianity as an explanation of the world and as redemption, his Christocentric teaching was opposed to that of the Gnostics.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
Paulinism is a religious and Christocentric doctrine, more inward and more powerful than any other which has ever appeared in the Church.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
As the theologians describe it, Lutheranism is Christocentric, Reform is theocentric.*
From The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by Wenner, George
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