Jesusologist
English
Noun
Jesusologist (plural Jesusologists)
- One who studies Jesus.
- 1958, Ronald W. Hepburn, “Meaning and Mediator”, in Christianity and Paradox: Critical Studies in Twentieth-Century Theology, London: C. A. Watts & Co Ltd, page 67:
- The gulf between the ‘unimpressive’ Jesus and God himself does not have to be spanned by the Christologist. It would require to be spanned only if he became a ‘Jesusologist’ instead.
- 1966, Vernon C. Grounds, “The Graveyard Theology: A Brief Introduction to Brash Infidelity”, in Is God “Dead”?, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, LCCN 66-29418, page 44:
- As for Hamilton, he is even more of a Jesusologist. Discarding supernaturalism, root and branch, he reduces all Christianity to Jesus.
- 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:
- These criticisms are not intended to give aid and comfort either to Christocentrists or the Jesusologists.
- 1972, compiled by Michael Braun with Richard Eckford and Peter Stimpson, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Authorised Version, London: Pan Books Ltd., →ISBN:
- Are you aware of those four self-proclaimed Jesusologists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, who go around analyzing every word you say and collect your garbage?
- 1972, Gabriel Moran, The Present Revelation: In Quest of Religious Foundations, →ISBN, page 265:
- The Jesusologist tries to recover every historical detail of the master’s life; the Christologist constantly relates his doctrine to historical development.
- 2012, “Difference”, in Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid, transl., pH Neutral History, Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, translation of original by Lidija Dimkovska, →ISBN, page 8:
- Jesusologists, Allahologists, Constantinople has no contemporaries.
- 2013, Hugh Rock, God Needs Salvation: A New Vision of God for the Twenty First Century, Christian Alternative Books, published 2014:
- A classificatory scheme of four types is proposed: Christians, Platonists, Christian Mystics, and Jesusologists.
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