The Christology of Jehovah's Witnesses is also generally regarded as Arian, given their views on development of the Trinity.

The Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult ) is a Christian statement of belief, focusing on Trinitarian doctrine and Christology.

The Athanasian Creed is usually divided into two sections: lines 1 – 28 addressing the doctrine of the Trinity, and lines 29 – 44 addressing the doctrine of Christology.

The area of Christian theology called Christology is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament.

In the Christology of the Logos, Christ is viewed as the Incarnation of the " Divine Logos ", i. e. The Word.

The formal definition of ' two natures ' in Christ was understood by the critics of the council at the time, and is understood by many historians and theologians today, to side with western and Antiochene Christology and to diverge from the teaching of Cyril of Alexandria, who always stressed that Christ is ' one '.

The Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult ) is a Christian statement of belief, focusing on Trinitarian doctrine and Christology.

Christology ( from Greek Χριστός Khristós and ,-logia ) is the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the canonical Gospels and the epistles of the New Testament.

As such, Christology is concerned with the details of Jesus ' ministry, his acts and teachings, to arrive at a clearer understanding of who he is in his person, and his role in salvation.

According to Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, the purpose of modern Christology is to formulate the Christian belief that " God became man and that God-made-man is the individual Jesus Christ " in a manner that this statement can be understood consistently, without the confusions of past debates and mythologies.

The Kyrios title for Jesus is central to the development of New Testament Christology, for the early Christians placed it at the center of their understanding, and from that center attempted to understand the other issues related to the Christian mysteries.

A foremost contribution to the Christology of the Apostolic Age is that of Paul.

The Pauline epistles also advanced the " cosmic Christology " of the fourth gospel, elaborating the cosmic implications of Jesus ' existence as the Son of God, as in: " Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

However, in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, " Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary ," thus the foundation of the definition according to the Non-Chalcedonian adherents, according to the Christology of Cyril of Alexandria is valid.

In terms of Christology, the Oriental Orthodox ( Non-Chalcedonians ) understanding is that Christ is " One Nature -- the Logos Incarnate ," of the full humanity and full divinity.

It seems most likely that Paul's Christology of sacrifice is the manner in which he intends to affect an environment of peace within the church.

It is mainly for this justification of the worship of Christ that Justin employs the Logos-idea, though where he explicitly deals with the divinity of the Redeemer and his relation to the Father, he makes use of the Old Testament, not of the Logos-idea, which thus can not be said to form an essential part of his Christology.

31-53 ) is believed to have had a Two Parousias Christology, characterized by the belief that Jesus first came in humility, in fulfillment of prophecy, and will return in glory as the Messiah to the Gentiles.

The Christology of the source is close to that of the Ascension of Isaiah.

The ' two natures ' defined at Chalcedon were now clearly interpreted as two sets of attributes possessed by a single person, Christ God, the Second Person of the Trinity, Later Byzantine Christology, as we find it Maximus the Confessor and John of Damascus, was built upon this basis.

In Johannine Christology the proclamation " who takes away the sin of the world " begins the unfolding of the salvific theme of the redemptive and sacrificial death of Jesus followed by his resurrection which is built upon in other proclamations such as " this is indeed the Saviour of the world " uttered by the Samaritans in John 4: 42.

In Johannine Christology the proclamation " who takes away the sins of the world " begins the unfolding of the salvific theme of the redemptive and sacrificial death of Jesus followed by his resurrection which is built upon in other proclamations such as " this is indeed the Saviour of the world " uttered by the Samaritans in John 4: 42.

While he thus closely followed the two great Alexandrians, Origen and Athanasius, in exegesis and Christology respectively, his work shows many traces of vigorous independent thought.

This question of the exact relationship between the Father and the Son ( a part of the theological science of Christology ) had been raised some fifty years before Arius, when Paul of Samosata was deposed in 269 for agreeing with those who used the word homoousios ( Greek for same substance ) to express the relation between the Father and the Son.

The second part recapitulates the formation of the dogmatic theological tradition of Christology up through the monothelite controversy in the seventh century ( theses 2-5 ).

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

The term " Christology from below ", on the other hand, refers to approaches that begin with the human aspects and the ministry of Jesus ( including the miracles, parables, etc.

The concept of " Cosmic Christology ", first elaborated by Saint Paul, focuses on how the arrival of Jesus as the Son of God forever changed the nature of the cosmos.

Since the 1980s theologians from the Oriental ( non-Chalcedonian ) Orthodox and Eastern ( Chalcedonian ) Orthodox churches have been meeting in a bid to resolve theological differences, and have concluded that many of the differences are caused by the two groups using different terminology to describe the same thing ( see Agreed Official Statements on Christology with the Eastern Orthodox Churches ).

The Pauline theme of unity based on a sacrificial Christology may also be noted in the epistle to the Philippians.

Many theologians argue for a Christology that is expressly based on the Trinity and an understanding of the interpersonal relationships between Father and Son and between Son and Holy Spirit.

* Rorem, Paul and John C. Lamoreaux, " John of Scythopolis on Apollinarian Christology and the Pseudo-Areopagite's True Identity.

Following the conversion of Constantine and the liberating Edict of Milan in 313, the ecumenical councils of the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries, that focused on Christology helped shape the Christian understanding of the redemptive nature of Resurrection, and influenced both the development of its iconography, and its use within Liturgy.

This emphasis on the path through Mary to Christ ( which was also a basis for some of Louis de Montfort's writings ) has since been a key direction in Roman Catholic Mariology, with Mariology being viewed as inherent in Christology, and the rosary paving that path.

The Oriental Orthodox churches, on the other hand, consider their own Christology, known as Miaphysitism and based heavily on the writings of Cyril of Alexandria ( whom all sides accept as orthodox ), to be distinct from monophysitism, and often object to being labelled monophysites.

Fausto Sozzini was further influential through the posthumous Racovian Catechism which set out his uncle Lelio's views on Christology and replaced earlier catechisms of the Ecclesia Minor, and also after his death through the writings of his students issued in Polish and Latin from the press of the Racovian Academy at Raków, Kielce County.

In this visit, Pope Shenouda III and Pope Paul VI signed a common declaration on the issue of Christology and agreed to further discussions on Christian.

In modern Roman Catholic Christology, Karl Rahner has continued to elaborate on the analogy that the blood of the Lamb of God, and the water flowing from the side of Christ on Calvary had a cleansing nature, similar to baptismal water.

Luke's Christology centers on the dialectics of the dual natures of the earthly and heavenly manifestations of existence of the Christ, while Matthew's Christology focuses on the mission of Jesus and his role as the savior.

Some of the debates involved the title Theotokos ( God bearer ) for the Virgin Mary and began to illustrate the impact of Mariology on Christology.