* Those groups which have Arian Christology such as Jehovah's Witnesses may identify some appearances of angels, particularly the archangel Michael, as Christophanies, but not theophanies.

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.

In his Christology from above, Aquinas also championed the principle of perfection of Christ's human attributes.

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

" His statement echoed the view that in Roman Catholic Mariology the path to Christ is through Mary, with Mariology being inherent in Christology ; a sentiment also expressed by saints such as Louis de Montfort who was a strong rosary advocate.

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.

In the light of modern historical research and ecumenical discussions, the miaphysite and Chalcedonian positions appear to differ mainly in their usage of the key term " nature " ( Greek: φύσις, phýsis, as used in the original texts of the relevant Ecumenical Councils ) rather than in the underlying Christology, but other smaller differences of interpretation or emphasis may also exist.

Later interpreters of the Council held that Chalcedonian Christology also rejected monothelitism and monergism.

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.

Valentinus ' Christology may have posited the existence of three redeeming beings, but Jesus while on Earth had a supernatural body which, for instance, " did not experience corruption " by defecating, according to Clement: there is also no mention of the account of Jesus's suffering in First Epistle of Peter, nor of any other, in any Valentinian text.

This view has also been called the doctrine of " heavenly flesh " and " Incarnational Christology ".

It also tends to take a more traditionalist line on matters of liturgy, ecclesiology, Christology and the authority of scripture.

Babai the Great ( 551-628 ), who was the unofficial head of the Church at that time and also involved in reviving the strict Syrian monastic movement, refuted him and in the process wrote the normative Christology of the Church of the East, based on Theodore of Mopsuestia.

It has also been noted that this Greek term " homoousian " or " consubstantial ", which Athanasius of Alexandria favored, and was ratified in the Nicene Council and Creed, was actually a term reported to also be used and favored by the Sabellians in their Christology.

There has also been a contrast made between Christology from above and Christology from below.

The question concerned the doctrine of the Lord's Supper and also involved a peculiar development of Christology, which was opposed by the Lutheran theologians outside of Württemberg, since Brenz carried to its logical conclusion the concept of " personal union ," thus favoring an absolute omnipresence ( ubiquity ) of the body of Christ, which did not begin with the ascension but with the incarnation.

" Roman Catholic theologians have also expressed the view that: " Mariology is Christology developed to its full potential ".

While the Church of the East ( i. e., Nestorian Christianity ) also did not accept the Council of Chalcedon, in addition to that it rejected the First Council of Ephesus as well and has, according to the traditional interpretation, an opposite Christology to the Oriental Orthodox.

The first volume also expounds a Mormon Christology or theory of Christ as both fully human and fully divine at once.

* Christadelphians, Church of God General Conference and other " Biblical Unitarians " are typically Socinian in their Christology, not Arian.

Bernard of Clairvaux's biographer and other sources accuse some Cathars of Arianism, and some scholars see Cathar Christology as having traces of earlier Arian roots.

The Christology commonly called " Arian " holds that Jesus, before his human life, existed as the Logos, a being created by God, who dwelt with God in heaven.

Arian Christology was not a majority view among Unitarians in Poland, Transylvania or England.

However, the Christology of the LDS religion differs in several significant aspects from Arian theology.

The most distinctive element in Socinian, as opposed to Arian, Christology is the objection of the personal pre-existence of Christ.