Christocentrism
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- noun
- /ˌkrɪstəˈsɛntrɪzəm/
- Formal
- One of his hopes for the Canberra Assembly was that it would reduce what he perceived to be the excessive Christocentrism of the WCC and bring to the fore instead a Trinitarian pneumatology.
Examples
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The debate about Christocentrism often centers on whether it appropriately reflects God's nature in teaching.
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Given Western Christocentrism, other New Testament tropes involving the council were conceivable.
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Although Augustine's Pneumatology is not diminished by this robust Christocentrism, such a strong focus on the Son is often seen as imbalanced.
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This focus on Christ cannot be construed as a relapse from prayer to the Holy Spirit into the kind of ecclesiastical position that some Eastern theologians often have reproached as a Western Christocentrism typically reluctant to think and speak about the coequality of the Spirit.
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While postmodern Christians may favor retrieving the Trinity of history, they shudder at the idea of Christocentrism, as if the centrality of Christ may quench plurality and freedom.
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The problem with Rahner's "Anonymous Christianity" lies not in his Christocentrism, so much as his assertion of a universal, pre-linguistic revelation and his attempt to link a meta-account of religion with a privileged linguistic narrative.
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Many theologians argue that Christocentrism is essential for understanding Christian doctrine.
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In her sermon, she emphasized the importance of Christocentrism in daily life and spiritual growth.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Christocentrism = Christocentric (transparent) = Christ + centr + ism
Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ism' to 'Christocentric', yielding the doctrine of placing Christ at the center; the meaning follows directly from the base.
Etymology
Christocentrism comes from two parts: Christo- (from Christ, meaning 'anointed one') and -centrism (from center, meaning 'middle' or 'focus'). So, Christocentrism is the idea of putting Christ at the 'center' of your beliefs and practice.