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Also known as Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

thumb|right|Paolo Veronese, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ ()

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Contents
  • Definition and approaches
  • {{anchor|Person of Christ}}Person of Christ
  • Salvation
  • Early Christologies (1st century)
  • Early notions of Christ
  • Pre-existence
  • ''Kyrios''
  • Development of "low Christology" and "high Christology"
  • New Testament writings
  • Paul
  • The Gospels
  • Controversies and ecumenical councils (2nd–8th century)
  • First Council of Nicaea (325) and First Council of Constantinople (381)
  • First Council of Ephesus (431)
  • Council of Chalcedon (451)
  • Fifth–Seventh Ecumenical Council (553, 681, 787)
  • 9th–11th century
  • Eastern Christianity
  • Western medieval Christology
  • Reformation
  • Modern developments
  • Liberal Protestant theology
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Topics
  • Nativity and the Holy Name
  • Crucifixion and resurrection
  • Threefold office
  • Mariology
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|right|Paolo Veronese, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ ()

Christology is a branch of Christian theology that concerns Jesus. Different denominations have different views on questions such as whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah what his role would be in the freeing of the Jewish people from foreign rulers or in the prophesied Kingdom of God, and in the salvation from what would otherwise be the consequences of sin.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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