Meanings
- informaluncountableA form of Christian religion focusing on Jesus to the exclusion of God.
Darrell Bock, a prominent evangelical New Testament scholar and coauthor of Dethroning Jesus, sums up the cultural conversation about Jesus in terms of Jesusanity versus Christianity.
2011, Jonathan Morrow, Think Christianly1 more example
Certain forms of liberal theology extol the fatherhood of God but (like Islam) reduce Jesus to the status of a prophet and regard the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force. There is also a kind of “Jesusanity” that ignores the Son's relationship to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
2009, Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?
Origin
Blend of Jesus + Christianity.
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