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Christocentric

[ kris-tuh-sen-trik ]

adjective

  1. having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.


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Other Word Forms

  • t·t noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Christocentric1

First recorded in 1870–75; Christo- + -centric
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Example Sentences

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Christocentric, 272, 273, 274. the Protrepticus, 282-287, 296.

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For Barth the Word of God came to man in the person of Christ, and Dogmatics is a Christocentric exploration of that word.

Princeton's best-known systematic theologian, Presbyterian George Stuart Hendry, says Barth's Christocentric approach forces many church doctrines into an artificial mold.

But, while he conceives Christianity as an explanation of the world and as redemption, his Christocentric teaching was opposed to that of the Gnostics.

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Paulinism is a religious and Christocentric doctrine, more inward and more powerful than any other which has ever appeared in the Church.

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