Jesusologist

English

Noun

Jesusologist (plural Jesusologists)

1. One who studies Jesus.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     As for Hamilton, he is even more of a Jesusologist. Discarding supernaturalism, root and branch, he reduces all Christianity to Jesus.

   • 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:

     These criticisms are not intended to give aid and comfort either to Christocentrists or the Jesusologists.

   • 1972, compiled by Michael Braun with Richard Eckford and Peter Stimpson, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Authorised Version‎^[1], London: Pan Books Ltd., →ISBN:

     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, Gabriel Moran, The Present Revelation: In Quest of Religious Foundations, →ISBN, page 265:

     The Jesusologist tries to recover every historical detail of the master’s life; the Christologist constantly relates his doctrine to historical development.

   • 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:

     Jesusologists, Allahologists, Constantinople has no contemporaries.

   • 2013, Hugh Rock, God Needs Salvation: A New Vision of God for the Twenty First Century‎^[2], Christian Alternative Books, published 2014:

     A classificatory scheme of four types is proposed: Christians, Platonists, Christian Mystics, and Jesusologists.