christocentrist

plural christocentrists

1. Alternative letter-case form of Christocentrist.

   Luther became an effective affective christocentrist.

   2021, Franz Posset, “Marulus and Luther: What Do Marcus Marulus and Martin Luther Have in Common?”, in Catholic Advocate of the Evangelical Truth: Marcus Marulus (Marko Marulić) of Split (1450-1524): Collected Works, volume 5, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, →ISBN, page 12

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   It is our contention that to accuse Barth in an exaggerated way of being anti-philosophical, and therefore of being a purely biblical christocentrist, is grossly unfair.

   1976, Philip Joseph Rosato, Karl Barth’s Theology of the Holy Spirit: God’s Noetic Realization of the Ontological Relationship Between Jesus Christ and All Men, page 360

   Barth becomes a christocentrist in order to support a valid christianocentrism.

   1981, Philip J. Rosato, The Spirit as Lord: The Pneumatology of Karl Barth, page 43

   The great christocentrist was advocating the possibility of a thorough Spirit Christology that would complement the dominant Logos Christology: a Christological programme pursued from a Trinitarian perspective, highlighting the mutual relations between the Son and the Spirit in the incarnation.

   2010, Myk Habets, The Anointed Son: A Trinitarian Spirit Christology (Princeton Theological Monograph Series; volume 129), Pickwick Publications, →ISBN

   And even when heard, the prophets are heard rather selectively, as determined by the hearer’s special interest, whether she is an “end-times” buff, a “Jesus on every page of the Old Testament” christocentrist, or a social justice advocate.

   2012, Richard Schultz, “Hearing the Major Prophets: “Your Ears Are Open, but You Hear Nothing” (Isa. 42:20)”, in Craig G. Bartholomew, David J. H. Beldman, editors, Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God’s Address, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 334

   This contrast between Jefferson and many a present-day “christocentrist” is one more exemplification, applied in this instance to a crucial religious figure, of the dissociation of sensibility, the divorce of the imagination’s world from the intellect’s conviction concerning the real world in modern literature, of which T. S. Eliot and so many other modern critics have spoken.

   2017, Hans W. Frei, “Saint, Sinner, and Pilgrim”, in Mike Higton, Mark Alan Bowald, editors, Reading Faithfully; Volume I: Writings from the Archives: Theology & Hermeneutics, James Clarke & Co, page 127

comparative more christocentrist · superlative most christocentrist

1. Alternative letter-case form of Christocentrist.

   This remains a crucial issue for the christocentrist position, however much qualified.

   2004, Bob Robinson, Christians Meeting Hindus: An Analysis and Theological Critique of the Hindu-Christian Encounter in India, Regnum Books International, →ISBN, page 258

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   The christocentrist position arose when, about 1100, it began to be taught that the cause of Christ’s incarnation was God’s predestining man to deification—a christology, in other words, developed in relation to a particular view of God’s eternal will for the temporal order.

   1974, Trivium, page 148

   Nevertheless, I am a Christian believer, a Roman Catholic scholar—self-described as a credal trinitarian, incarnationalist, christocentrist theologian who in believing knows that which he believes.

   1993, Journal of Religious Studies, page 23

   Traces the evolution of Knitter’s pluralistic theology of religions from his beginning as an exclusivist, through later christocentrist and theocentrist stages, to his current soteriocentrism, focusing on the latter - a kind of liberation-theology of religions.

   1994, Religious and Theological Abstracts

plural Christocentrists · alternative christocentrist

1. A proponent of Christocentrism.

   His “Map of the Universe” looks like a diagram once submitted to us by a Christocentrist.

   1925 November 8, The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, fifty-ninth year, number 168, Minneapolis, Minn., page four

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   These criticisms are not intended to give aid and comfort either to Christocentrists or the Jesusologists.

   1970 July, J. Alvin Sanders, “Major Book Reviews: Models of God’s Government: The Old Testament and Theology, by G. Ernest Wright. […]”, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, volume XXIV, number 3, page 368

   Contrary to Strauss, however, Schleiermacher was not a thoroughgoing Christocentrist in his defense of this doctrine.

   1997, Gary Dorrien, “Theology Beyond Myth: Liberal Christianity”, in The Word as True Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology, Louisville, Ken.: Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 23

comparative more Christocentrist · superlative most Christocentrist · alternative christocentrist

1. Synonym of Christocentric.

   The present study is “an essay in advocacy, arguing against the Christocentrist position that became popular in the theological world in recent years and in favor of another” (p. ix).

   1975, Theological Studies, page 370

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   The implied analogy in Chaucer’s writings between the hermeneutic purpose of theology and the hermeneutic value of even a secular text — that both ought to engage “allegory” so as to achieve reference to spiritual nourishment — is basic to the Christocentrist theories of reference still found in Petrarch (see Familiari, 6.2.4) and Erasmus (Enchiridion, 2-3, 25).

   1992, David Lyle Jeffrey, editor, A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 446, column 2

   In spite of Barth’s strong Christocentrist understanding of revelation, he also acknowledges vestiges of divine revelation outside Scripture, as we noted in our discussion in chapter 3 of truth in the religions.

   2014, Gerald Robert McDermott, Harold A. Netland, A Trinitarian Theology of Religions: An Evangelical Proposal, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 229

   Synonyms: Christocentric