christology

Paul's epistles, which are early arguably display a very high christology, suggesting John is not such an outlier here.

He was seen as a human, a rabbi, a prophet, and God incarnate—but how could one reconcile these different views into a consistent christology?

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My point is that in Christology there is literally nothing but conspiracy theories all the way down, by every active participant for fully two millennia.

This is particularly important for Christianity, because of the heavy debates on christology in the early centuries of the Church resulting in several major schisms.

UT Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen joined — and was welcomed by — a liberal Austin Presbyterian church even though he didn't believe traditionalist theology, christology, or soteriology.

Reynolds notes that some critical scholars find the East Syrian (Nestorian) Christology congenial to a docetic view of the crucifixion - the idea that Christ only appeared to suffer.

There isn't any indication as to whether James, Peter, John (the Three Pillars in Jerusalem) disagreed with Paul over his Christology or eschatological expectations (Jesus was probably an apocalyptic prophet like John the Baptist).

In the strict sense, that would be called ecclesiology, which would be distinct from theology dealing with the nature of God (which has the distinct sub discipline of christology dealing with the nature of Christ specifically).

Thought the article says the council 'settled' christology, it still took hundreds of years before it was popularly resolved: for, at least, the first 500 years of christianity jesus was widely regarded as something more like a demigod.

The historical sources I mentioned can be found in more detail on newadvent.org, whatever else you think of the Catholics, they compile a humdinger of a wiki, and are probably the experts on Christology and the historical Jesus.

And while I suppose that something that might loosely be described that way was involved with groups like the Bogomils and Cathars, in both cases more fundamental differences over Christology and the nature of God were more central.

My phrasing is for an audience who is unaware that the gospels already disagree on Christology.

I think I tend to agree with the conclusion—namely that it was predominantly a Jewish influence on Christology.

But, yes, there are certainly groups that self describe as Christian that subscribe to heterodox (from the POV of mainstream Christianity) Christology, and JW are very much not alone there.