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Jesusologist en · NOUN

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1. One who studies Jesus.
   • These criticisms are not intended to give aid and comfort either to Christocentrists or the Jesusologists. 1970 July, J. Alvin Sanders, “Major Book Reviews: Models of God’s Government: The Old Testament and Theology, by G. Ernest Wright. […]”, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, volume XXIV, number 3, page 368:
   • Jesusologists, Allahologists, Constantinople has no contemporaries. 2012, “Difference”, in Ljubica Arsovska, Peggy Reid, transl., pH Neutral History, Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, translation of original by Lidija Dimkovska, →ISBN, page 8:
   • As for Hamilton, he is even more of a Jesusologist. Discarding supernaturalism, root and branch, he reduces all Christianity to Jesus. 1966, Vernon C. Grounds, “The Graveyard Theology: A Brief Introduction to Brash Infidelity”, in Is God “Dead”?, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →LCCN, page 44:
   • Are you aware of those four self-proclaimed Jesusologists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, who go around analyzing every word you say and collect your garbage? 1972, compiled by Michael Braun with Richard Eckford and Peter Stimpson, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Authorised Version, London: Pan Books Ltd., →ISBN:
   • The Jesusologist tries to recover every historical detail of the master’s life; the Christologist constantly relates his doctrine to historical development. 1972, Gabriel Moran, The Present Revelation: In Quest of Religious Foundations, →ISBN, page 265:
   • The gulf between the ‘unimpressive’ Jesus and God himself does not have to be spanned by the Christologist. It would require to be spanned only if he became a ‘Jesusologist’ instead. 1958, Ronald W. Hepburn, “Meaning and Mediator”, in Christianity and Paradox: Critical Studies in Twentieth-Century Theology, London: C. A. Watts & Co Ltd, page 67:
   • A classificatory scheme of four types is proposed: Christians, Platonists, Christian Mystics, and Jesusologists. 2013, Hugh Rock, God Needs Salvation: A New Vision of God for the Twenty First Century, Christian Alternative Books, published 2014:

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