Jesusanity

Jesusanity

English

Etymology

Blend of Jesus +‎ Christianity

Noun

Jesusanity (uncountable)

1. (informal) A form of Christian religion focusing on Jesus to the exclusion of God.
   • 2009, Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?

     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.

   • 2011, Jonathan Morrow, Think Christianly

     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.