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English
Etymology
From Jesus + -ology.
Noun
Jesusology (countable and uncountable, plural Jesusologies)
- The study of Jesus.
1972 July 22, Eileen Spraker, “‘I celebrate my salvation by becoming involved …”, in The Morning News, volume 182, number 19, Wilmington, Del., page 4:HE’S [Joseph H. Yeakel] scared of the Jesus movement. “I’m scared when I think of Jesusology. The church has to move toward a Christology—on a God-and-man emphasis. I see the Jesus movement as a tidal wave. The Jesus movement can overemphasize Jesus the man.”
1994, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, “Sin against God”, in The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 52:Albert Schweitzer’s wry remark that the lives of Jesus produced in 19th century scholarship are so many portraits of the idealized hopes of the scholars may well be expanded to cover all of our Jesusologies and Christologies, and so it should be.
1994, Donald L. Gelpi, “The Turn to Experience in Process Theology”, in The Turn to Experience in Contemporary Theology, New York, N.Y., Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 70:W. Norman Pittenger, David Griffin, and John B. Cobb have all formulated “process Christologies.” In point of fact, all three have only constructed Jesusologies that so naturalize the understanding of divine grace as to make Christology unthinkable.
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