Jesusology
Jesusology noun: the study of Jesus.
Noun
Jesusology (countable and uncountable, plural Jesusologies)
- The study of Jesus.
- 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.”1972 July 22, Eileen Spraker, “‘I celebrate my salvation by becoming involved …”, in The Morning News, volume 182, number 19, Wilmington, Del., page 4
- 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, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, “Sin against God”, in The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 52
Forms of Jesusology
| plural | Jesusologies |
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Origin of Jesusology
From Jesus + -ology.
Words formed from Jesusology
Questions about Jesusology
- What does Jesusology mean?
- Jesusology means the study of Jesus.
- What part of speech is Jesusology?
- Jesusology is a noun.
- What is the plural of Jesusology?
- The plural of Jesusology is Jesusologies.
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