Christocentrist
See also: christocentrist
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editNoun
editChristocentrist (plural Christocentrists)
- A proponent of Christocentrism.
- 1925 November 8, The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, fifty-ninth year, number 168, Minneapolis, Minn., page four:
- His “Map of the Universe” looks like a diagram once submitted to us by a Christocentrist.
- 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.
- 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:
- Contrary to Strauss, however, Schleiermacher was not a thoroughgoing Christocentrist in his defense of this doctrine.
Adjective
editChristocentrist (comparative more Christocentrist, superlative most Christocentrist)
- Synonym of Christocentric
- 1975, Theological Studies, page 370:
- 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).
- 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:
- 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).
- 2014, Gerald Robert McDermott, Harold A. Netland, A Trinitarian Theology of Religions: An Evangelical Proposal, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 229:
- 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.