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Meaning of Christocentrist | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. A proponent of Christocentrism.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Christocentrist.
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Examples

“His “Map of the Universe” looks like a diagram once submitted to us by a Christocentrist.”
“These criticisms are not intended to give aid and comfort either to Christocentrists or the Jesusologists.”
“Contrary to Strauss, however, Schleiermacher was not a thoroughgoing Christocentrist in his defense of this doctrine.”
“It is our contention that to accuse Barth in an exaggerated way of being anti-philosophical, and therefore of being a purely biblical christocentrist, is grossly unfair.”
“Barth becomes a christocentrist in order to support a valid christianocentrism.”
“The great christocentrist was advocating the possibility of a thorough Spirit Christology that would complement the dominant Logos Christology: a Christological programme pursued from a Trinitarian perspective, highlighting the mutual relations between the Son and the Spirit in the incarnation.”
“And even when heard, the prophets are heard rather selectively, as determined by the hearer’s special interest, whether she is an “end-times” buff, a “Jesus on every page of the Old Testament” christocentrist, or a social justice advocate.”
“This contrast between Jefferson and many a present-day “christocentrist” is one more exemplification, applied in this instance to a crucial religious figure, of the dissociation of sensibility, the divorce of the imagination’s world from the intellect’s conviction concerning the real world in modern literature, of which T. S. Eliot and so many other modern critics have spoken.”
“Luther became an effective affective christocentrist.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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