# christocentrist
## English
### Noun

christocentrist (plural christocentrists)
* Alternative letter-case form of Christocentrist
** 1976, Philip Joseph Rosato, Karl Barth’s Theology of the Holy Spirit: God’s Noetic Realization of the Ontological Relationship Between Jesus Christ and All Men, page 360:It is our contention that to accuse Barth in an exaggerated way of being anti-philosophical, and therefore of being a purely biblical christocentrist, is grossly unfair.
** 1981, Philip J. Rosato, The Spirit as Lord: The Pneumatology of Karl Barth, page 43:Barth becomes a christocentrist in order to support a valid christianocentrism.
** 2010, Myk Habets, The Anointed Son: A Trinitarian Spirit Christology (Princeton Theological Monograph Series; volume 129), Pickwick Publications, →ISBN:The great christocentrist was advocating the possibility of a thorough Spirit Christology that would complement the dominant Logos Christology: a Christological programme pursued from a Trinitarian perspective, highlighting the mutual relations between the Son and the Spirit in the incarnation.
** 2012, Richard Schultz, “Hearing the Major Prophets: “Your Ears Are Open, but You Hear Nothing” (Isa. 42:20)”, in Craig G. Bartholomew, David J. H. Beldman, editors, Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God’s Address, Grand Rapids, Mich., Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 334:And even when heard, the prophets are heard rather selectively, as determined by the hearer’s special interest, whether she is an “end-times” buff, a “Jesus on every page of the Old Testament” christocentrist, or a social justice advocate.
** 2017, Hans W. Frei, “Saint, Sinner, and Pilgrim”, in Mike Higton, Mark Alan Bowald, editors, Reading Faithfully; Volume I: Writings from the Archives: Theology & Hermeneutics, James Clarke & Co, page 127:This contrast between Jefferson and many a present-day “christocentrist” is one more exemplification, applied in this instance to a crucial religious figure, of the dissociation of sensibility, the divorce of the imagination’s world from the intellect’s conviction concerning the real world in modern literature, of which T. S. Eliot and so many other modern critics have spoken.
** 2021, Franz Posset, “Marulus and Luther: What Do Marcus Marulus and Martin Luther Have in Common?”, in Catholic Advocate of the Evangelical Truth: Marcus Marulus (Marko Marulić) of Split (1450-1524): Collected Works, volume 5, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, →ISBN, page 12:Luther became an effective affective christocentrist.

### Adjective

christocentrist (comparative more christocentrist, superlative most christocentrist)
* Alternative letter-case form of Christocentrist
** 1974, Trivium, page 148:The christocentrist position arose when, about 1100, it began to be taught that the cause of Christ’s incarnation was God’s predestining man to deification—a christology, in other words, developed in relation to a particular view of God’s eternal will for the temporal order.
** 1993, Journal of Religious Studies, page 23:Nevertheless, I am a Christian believer, a Roman Catholic scholar—self-described as a credal trinitarian, incarnationalist, christocentrist theologian who in believing knows that which he believes.
** 1994, Religious and Theological Abstracts:Traces the evolution of Knitter’s pluralistic theology of religions from his beginning as an exclusivist, through later christocentrist and theocentrist stages, to his current soteriocentrism, focusing on the latter - a kind of liberation-theology of religions.
** 2004, Bob Robinson, Christians Meeting Hindus: An Analysis and Theological Critique of the Hindu-Christian Encounter in India, Regnum Books International, →ISBN, page 258:This remains a crucial issue for the christocentrist position, however much qualified.