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Jesusanity en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of Jesus + Christianity.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) A form of Christian religion focusing on Jesus to the exclusion of God.
    • Darrell Bock, a prominent evangelical New Testament scholar and coauthor of Dethroning Jesus, sums up the cultural conversation about Jesus in terms of Jesusanity versus Christianity. 2011, Jonathan Morrow, Think Christianly:
    • Certain forms of liberal theology extol the fatherhood of God but (like Islam) reduce Jesus to the status of a prophet and regard the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force. There is also a kind of “Jesusanity” that ignores the Son's relationship to the Father and the Holy Spirit. 2009, Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?:

Hypernyms

Christianity