Types of Christology
The study of the nature of Jesus Christ
What is Christology
Redeemer of sin and saver of souls. For Christians, this is Jesus, the Messiah (Christ).
What is Savior
Self-Designation of Jesus . . . Messianic in nature . . . "Son of Man" can also simply imply "human," as in "mortal".
What is Son of Man
Emphasizes or starts with the humanity of Jesus.
What is Low Christology
The Christian God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, though still One God.
What is Trinity
The combination of Divine and human natures in the single person of Christ . . . Fully human and also fully Divine.
What is Hypostatic Union
Emphasizes or starts with the Divinity of Jesus
What is High Christology
In Hebrew, the “Anointed One,” the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, the awaited Jewish “savior” or “rescuer”.
What is Messiah
Event reported in the New Testament when Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain.
What is Transfiguration
Theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind, the end times!
What is Eschatology
The Greek translation of “Messiah,” used by Christians as a title for Jesus to show that He is Messiah/Savior.
What is Christ
The tendency to sin innate in all human beings, held to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall . . . The concept of Original Sin was developed in the writings of St. Augustine.
What is Original Sin