Sentence examples for human christ from inspiring English sources

(1099; "Why Did God Become Man?") would later be influential for its emphasis on the human Christ.

In portraying a very human Christ, struggling more with his notoriety than his divinity, Jesus Christ Superstar was about the pain and suffering caused to the individual by the dehumanising effect of fame.

It also provided the terminology for that discussion, since 5th-century theologians were able to describe the relation between the divine and the human Christ by analogy to the relation between the Father and the Son in the Trinity.

This group, with a human Christ surrounded by inhuman grotesques, closely resembles a famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci (coincidentally - they never met) of a wise man fallen among gross idiots that can be interpreted as a melancholy self-portrait.

Pope Francis could well agree with Steinberg, who lamented that the human Christ disappeared "as modern Christianity distanced itself from its mythic roots; as the person of Jesus was refined into all doctrine and message, the kerygma of a Christianity without Christ".

Although this distinction is much too neat and fails to recognize the importance of all the books of the Bible to medieval Christianity, it does reflect the growing emphasis on the human Christ and the apostolic life after the turn of the millennium.

The instrument for bringing humans back into a right relationship with God, therefore, had to be the God-human (Christ), by whose infinite merits humanity is purified in an act of cooperative re-creation.

Because it seemed to him that the supporters of the title were blurring the distinction between the divine and the human in Christ, Nestorius, the patriarch of Constantinople, objected to its use, preferring the less explicit title Christotokos, meaning "Christ-bearer" or "mother of Christ".

Thus, a decision regarding the relation between the divine and the human in Christ could be simultaneously a decision regarding the political situation.

Both the Trinity and the doctrine of two natures (divine and human) in Christ are argued to be both contradictory and unsupported by the Bible.

Christianity is an odd religion in that the central human figure, Christ, is executed by the state.