Christology

The book of Romans was written by the Apostle Paul while on his third missionary journey. Paul, at the time, had not been to Rome nor visited the believers there. This is why the theme of the whole book of Romans is the basic gospel, or Paul describing God’s plan, for all humankind, the way to accept salvation and righteousness. Because Paul had not yet visited Rome personally, he chose to write this epistle, also known as a letter, to the people preparing both himself and them for the reasons…

Melito of Sardis is thought to have penned a homily called “A Homily on the Passover,” or Peri Pascha. This piece elucidates a christology with several important facets. First, Melito centers Christ as both fully human and fully divine. He writes at length that Jesus, in his christological role, was both temporal and atemporal, finite and infinite, the embodiment of the Father [sic] and the Son [sic]. Further, Jesus, as the Christ, is understood to be a mold-breaker. The mold was the Law to…

The first volume of Robert Jenson’s Systematic Theology resolves two theological difficulties in the doctrine of God by innovatively binding together eschatology and pneumatology (advancing what I will refer to as Jenson’s “eschatological pneumatology”) in order to develop and sustain material proposals concerning God’s triune character. In terms of eschatology, Jenson’s project critically opposes theologies which are overdetermined by protological thinking, or God’s reality as source and origin…

Jesus has been a prevalent figure in Christology. As seen in the Book of Mark, Jesus is seen through his countless journeys teaching, healing, and providing. Many see him as a hero, though others, such as his hometown, Nazareth, reject him. In the opening of Mark 1, Jesus’ first appearance sees him being baptized by John the Baptist. Once Jesus is becoming what he was set out to do, being the true son of God, the suffering messiah. As he meets his demise in Mark 15 to his miraculous resurrection…

from their humanly form. A lot of those beliefs and theologies involved many concepts, theories, and beliefs from Christianity. Members of Heaven’s Gate believed in soteriology, Christology, cosmology, demonology, and eschatology. Soteriology is a belief about salvation and giving up all worldly possessions. Christology is a belied about Jesus Christ. Demonology is the belief in the devil, demons, and evil spirits. Cosmology is a belief about…

Throughout Hebrews, the author argues the superiority of Christ to the Law, to the Prophets, to the angels, even to Moses. His high christology indicates that he believes Christ to be lower for a little while, not a little lower than the angels. He writes that Christ is “much superior to angels” and “Let all God’s angels worship him.” Furthermore, the author repeatedly states that Jesus…

In very simple words as one could put it, Incarnational Union Soteriology is this: God goes to hell, so that hell goes to God. More exactly, Incarnational Union Soteriology is a soteriology that focuses on the Incarnation, the Word becoming Flesh, and in the words of the Church fathers that "[i]n Christ, God becomes human, so that humans can become God" (CP2 28). It is through the Incarnation that humanity is divinized, yet in order for us to share divinity with God, God must become and share in…

Jesus in Christianity is often seen as the central figure of worship, a divine individual, and has also been described in the bible as performing miracles with gifts that his father bestowed on him. It is a common misconception of many believing that Jesus is seen the same in every religion. However, the religion of Islam proves that Jesus is not seen with the same perspective that Christians see Jesus; although there are some similarities. In Islam, the Qur’an (which is the moral code for…

For Gnostic Christians “the idea that God became flesh was a repulsive thought” (Lynch, 58). They reasoned, “if he had a real body, he would have been imprisoned in flesh like everyone else” (Lynch, 58). Therefor, Gnostic Christian christologies “tended to separate Jesus from matter and to regard him as a pure spirit rather than a real human being” (Lynch, 58). This view of Jesus was called Docetism, which held that because Jesus was a spirit there was “no reason to believe that he actually…

One of the principle benefits of Christology is that of redemption. Redemption is the means to be saved from sin. In Why God Became Man, Anselm asks “by what logic or necessity did God become man, and by his death, as we believe and profess, and restore life to the world, when he could have done this through the agency of some other person, angelic or human or simply by willing it? ” Here Anselm explores the need of humanity which is that of redemption; how humanity is redeemed through Christ’s…