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Christology

American  
[kri-stol-uh-jee] / krɪˈstɒl ə dʒi /

noun

  • Christologies
    plural
  1. the branch of theology dealing with the nature, person, and deeds of Jesus Christ.

  2. an interpretation of the nature, person, and deeds of Christ.


Christology British  
/ krɪˈstɒlədʒɪ, kraɪ- /

noun

  1. the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of Christology

First recorded in 1665–75; Christo- + -logy


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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

Like Jesuit Karl Rahner and other contemporary theologians, he starts his Christology "from below," with the man Jesus, and works upward toward his divinity.

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

In a word evangelic tradition as it had hitherto found currency still lacked the fundamental thing in the Christology of Paul—the Incarnation doctrine.

From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon

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a perfect isolated God, joined to a perfect isolated man, in what were indeed the incredible terms of the older and superseded Christologies.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

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

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

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