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
In 1972 the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its most recent declaration on Christology.
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Among Roman Catholic thinkers, the New Christology first appeared at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 1966, when the late Ansfried Hulsbosch, an Augustinian, issued a manifesto against the Council of Chalcedon.
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Not all the others accepted Yancey's Christology, but they all acknowledged prayer's expansion into compassion.
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That it is annexed to the person and history of one individual is a necessary result of the historical form which Christology has taken.”
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey
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