God-man
Americannoun
plural
God-men-
Jesus Christ.
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(lowercase) a being who possesses the combined attributes of a deity and of a human; demigod.
noun
Etymology
Origin of God-man
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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Miles said Christians believe that this points to the idea that the covenant was made "spiritually" between the "Father and the God-man Jesus Christ — rather than Abram himself," although Abram benefited from it.
From Fox News • Mar. 13, 2022
If Lawrence was the last colonial God-man, he was also the movie epic's first moody hero, father to countless sacred screen madmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the Church has ever clung with a tenacity of grasp, which shallow hearts could ill understand, to this central idea, the indefeasible wedlock of heaven and earth in the God-man.
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.
Jesus as God-man had omnipotence slumbering in His arm.
From The Mind of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
In this case the Gnosis really adopted the idea of the incarnation, and at the same time tried to demonstrate the conception of the God-man from the notions of unity of will and love.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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