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
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
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
While Apollinaris had constructed his Christology on the basis of the doctrine of the Trinity, the Antiochians started from the formula "perfect alike in deity and humanity."
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
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
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
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 Neil Buchanan
The Pauline and Johannine Christologies gave cosmic significance to His work, and so inevitably to His Person.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
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