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In Christianity, Christology [a] is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus.Different denominations have different opinions on questions such as whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah what his role would be in the freeing of the Jewish people from foreign rulers or in the prophesied Kingdom of God, and in the salvation from what would otherwise be the consequences of sin.
Christology is the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the nature, person, and works of Jesus Christ, held by Christians to be the Son of God. Christology is concerned with the meeting of the human and divine (God the Son or Word of God) in the person of Jesus.
Monophysitism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-seye-tih-zəm [1]) or monophysism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ z ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-zih-zəm; from Greek μόνος monos, "solitary" [2] and φύσις physis, "nature") is a Christological doctrine that states that there was only one nature—the divine—in the person of Jesus Christ, who was the incarnated Word. [3]
Irenaeus (c. 130 – c. 202 AD) offered one of the earliest articulations of a cosmic Christology in his Against Heresies.In his theory of atonement, Irenaeus speaks about how all of humanity was created good but tainted by sin, but that all of creation was "recapitulated" and restored under the new headship of Christ.
Dyophysitism (/ d aɪ ˈ ɒ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm /; [2] from Greek δύο dyo, "two" and φύσις physis, "nature") is the Christological position that Jesus Christ is one person of one substance and one hypostasis, with two distinct, inseparable natures: divine and human. [3]
Kenotic Christology essentially states that in order to truly live a human experience, Jesus, despite being a preexisting divine being, voluntarily humbled himself. He could still perform miracles, heal the sick, and dispense reliable moral doctrine, but was not using divine might to resolve all of his problems as a mortal, and struggled ...
Others, however, doubt that there was actual docetism threatening the churches, arguing that he was merely criticizing Christians who lived Jewishly or that his critical remarks were directed at an Ebionite or Cerinthian possessionist Christology, according to which Christ was a heavenly spirit that temporarily possessed Jesus.
Miaphysitism (/ m aɪ ˈ æ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm, m iː-/ [1]) is the Christological doctrine that holds Jesus, the Incarnate Word, is fully divine and fully human, in one nature (). [2] It is a position held by the Oriental Orthodox Churches.