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The spelling Christ (Greek Genitive: , to Christo,; Nominative: , ho Christs) in English was standardized in the 18th century, when, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, spellings of certain words were changed to fit their Greek or Latin origins. Prior to this, in Old and Middle English, the word was usually spelled Crist, the i being pronounced either as /i/, preserved in the names of churches such as St Katherine Cree, or as a short //, preserved in the modern pronunciation of Christmas). The spelling "Christ" is attested from the 14th century.
The term Christ (or similar) appears in English and most European languages, owing to the Greek usage of Khrists (transcribed in Latin as Christus) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus. In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible, it was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew mashiach (messiah), meaning "anointed."
Khrists in classical Greek usage could mean covered in oil, and is thus a literal translation of messiah.
Orthodox Christian views
See also: Jesusand New Testament view on Jesus' life
This section contains views that have generally agreed upon among Christians for two millennia. The New Testament records that the Messiah, long awaited, had come and describes this savior as The Christ. The apostle Peter, in what has become a famous proclamation of faith among Christians since the first century, said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."[Matthew16:16]
Teachings about Jesus and testimonies about what he accomplished during his three-year public ministry are found throughout the New Testament. Core biblical teachings about the person of Jesus Christ may be summarized that Jesus Christ was and forever is fully God (divine) and fully human in one sinless person at the same time. Scripture asserts that Jesus was conceived, by a miraculous work of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of his virgin mother Mary without a human father.
The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews says:
Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
Josephus
Various texts titled "Apostles' Creed", dating from the third century A.D., and still in current use among Christians, describe Jesus as
The only son of God the Father
Having the Virgin Mary as mother
Crucified on the authority of Pontius Pilate
Having been dead and buried
Having "descended into hell" or "descended to the dead" (sometimes omitted)
Rising from the dead after 3 days or "on the third day"
Having "ascended into heaven"
Sitting "at the right hand" of God
Destined to return to earth, and then to pass judgment on all humans who have ever lived
Heterodox Christian views
This section contains views and doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position.
Christian Science
In the theology of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, the religion's founder, wrote in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, that:
The invisible Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus appeared as a bodily existence. This dual personality of the unseen and the seen, the spiritual and material, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest in flesh, continued until the Master's ascension, when the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes."
Eddy wrote that while Jesus, as a material man, was not the exact ontological or quantitative equivalent to God, he thoroughly embodied the spiritual sonship of God's nature. In Christian Science, the Christ, or divine manifestation of God, continues forever to enlighten humanity and to destroy sickness, sin, and death.
Gnostic
See also: Sophia (wisdom)and New Thought
The gnostics generally believed not in a Jesus who was a divine person with a human form, but in a spiritual christ who dwelt in Jesus. Through the spiritual path of gnosticism, followers of these schools believed that they could experience the same knowledge, or gnosis. Many of the Gnostic texts say that in order to be called worthy of the title 'Christian' one must also be anointed with Holy oil and that the water baptism alone is incomplete.[citation needed] The Gospel of Philip states several such instances, one being:
The 'Chrism' is superior to baptism, for it is from the word 'Chrism' that we have been called 'Christians,' certainly not because of the word 'baptism.' And it is because of the 'Chrism' that the 'Christ' has his name. For the Father anointed the Son, the Son anointed the apostles, and the apostles anointed us. He who has been anointed possesses everything. He possesses the Resurrection, the Light, the Cross, the Holy Spirit. The Father gave him this in the bridal chamber, he merely accepted the gift. The Father was in the Son and the Son in the Father. This is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Other Gnostic texts with Jesus Christ include the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary.
Neo-Theosophy
In Neo-Theosophy, C.W. Leadbeater promulgated a Nestorian/Gnostic Christology that was taught by Alice A. Bailey, is taught by Benjamin Creme, and is accepted today by most Theosophists. This theology asserts that a powerful being from the higher spiritual planes known as the Maitreya overshadowed the being Theosophists know as the Master Jesus during the ministry of Jesus, such that there were two beings (two souls) in one bodyaitreya was the Christ and the Master Jesus was Jesus; the combination of the two beings functioned as Jesus Christ. Those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions derived from Theosophy, believe in the existence of the Maitreya; however, they believe that although he encouraged the mission of Jesus, he did not actually overshadow Jesus.
Western Wisdom Teachings
In the WWT, the Solar System is the Creation of the collective Great Being God - Elohim, its threefold Architect and sustainer; the celestial bodies of this portion of Space, permeated by different planes of existence having varying density and vibration, are home to various life waves of virgin spirits, differentiated within God Himself, and in different evolutionary stages of consciousness. The Sun, depicted above, is seen as the seat of the Christ Spirit, The Son, Who has become partially confined to the Earth, as its Regent, through the Great Sacrifice of Christ-Jesus on Calvary.
See also: Second Coming and Esoteric Christianity
In the Rosicrucian writings of Max Heindel, also known as Western Wisdom Teachings, there is a distinction to be made between Jesus and the Christ. Jesus is considered a high Initiate of the human life wave (the cycle of rebirth) and of a singularly pure type of mind, vastly superior to the great majority of the present humanity. Among the esoteric insights into the composite nature of Christ-Jesus and the uplifting mission of the Christ, the Esoteric Christian philosophy of the Rosicrucians teaches that:
On Golgotha, the physical body of Jesus was destroyed amid certain phenomena recorded in the Bible, and the Christ Spirit drew into the earth. Up to that time the earth had been worked upon FROM WITHOUT. As the group spirits guide animals from without, so the earth had been guided in its orbit and mankind had been led on the path of evolution almost entirely by Jehovah, but from that time the Christ became our indwelling Earth Spirit. He now guides our planet in its orbit, AND IS ENDEAVORING TO REPLACE THE REGIME OF WAR INAUGURATED BY JEHOVAH, ON THE ONE HAND, AND THE MARTIAL LUCIFER SPIRITS, ON THE OTHER, BY A REGIME OF ALTRUISM, a reign of UNIVERSAL FRIENDSHIP. We hear much about UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD, but it is not necessary to form societies to proclaim that we are brothers; everyone knows this; there is not need of calling attention to this fact. Brothers and sisters are not always harmonious, but they must be harmonious if they are to be friends, and therefore Christ instituted a much higher ideal when He called His disciples friends: "Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I have commanded you."
From the viewpoint of the Rosicrucian cosmology, our home Solar system is God's habitation; the Sun is the indwelling "bright morning-star" of the Christ Spirit -- the "Sun of righteousness," the "Light of the World," the Solar Logos -- Who founded the catholic, meaning 'universal', lofty Christian religion, the only religion that is looking for the ne Who is to come again; whereas the Moon(s) is(are) the working platform of the lunar God Jehovah, the builder of concrete bodies or forms (and, thus, the giver of children) and the founder of all separative race-religions, that still look for the ne Who is to come; and Mars (not Venus), the red planet, is the abode of the fallen selfish Lucifer spirits. Further, it is described that the great Sun-spirit Christ became the Regent of our planet at the moment He secured His admission into the Earth through the Cleansing Blood ("... the soul of all flesh is in the blood...")[Leviticus17:11,14] that flowed at the crucifixion of Christ-Jesus.
Hindu view
Swami Tripurari states:
... in theory the sinners of the world are the beneficiaries of Christ sacrifice, but it is God the father for whose pleasure Christ underwent the crucifixion, even when the father joy in this scenario lies in the salvation of sinners. Christ represents the intermediary between God and humanity, and his life aptly illustrates the fact that it is sacrifice by which we come to meet our maker. Thus in Christ the Divine teaches us he way more than he does the goal. The Christ conception represents he way in the sense that the way is sacrifice, out of which love arises. The Krishna conception represents that for which we not only should, but must sacrifice, compelled by the Godhead irresistible attributes, etc. depicted therein.
See also: Christogram
The use of "," derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ (most commonly in the abbreviation "mas") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term. Thus understood, the centuries-old English word mas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas. Christians are sometimes referred to- in a semi-satirical manner- as "Xtians", with the 'X' replacing 'Christ.
Slang usage
The interjection "christ!" is sometimes used as a sign of surprise or anger, without a direct religious referencehat is, as an exclamation. Some Christians understand this usage to be in violation of the commandment against taking the Lord's name in vain, although the severity of the transgression varies among different groups of believers.
The prohibition against use as an interject was generally taken more seriously in the past, to the point where it was not only considered socially improper, but a sin against God. Many maintain this view.
See also
Anointing of Jesus
Anointing
Antichrist
Chrism
Christology
Jewish Messiah
Messiah
Messianic prophecy
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament
Son of Man
References
^ Etymology Online: Christ
^ Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "Christ"
^ Etymology Online: messiah
^ Grudem, Wayne A. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. Zondervan, 1994. ISBN 0310286700
^ Matthew1:18-25, Luke1:35, Luke3:23
^ Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18, Chapter 3, Section 3
^ Science and Health 334
^ Template:Http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr sci.htm
^ Lee, A. D. (2000). Pagans and Christians in late antiquity. Routledge. p.45. ISBN 9780415138925.
^ Leadbeater, C.W. The Masters and the Path Adyar, Madras, India: 1925--Theosophical Publishing House Page 278
^ Creme, Benjamin Maitreya's Missionolume III Amsterdam:1997 Share International Foundtion Page 64
^ Prophet, Mark Studies of the Human Aura Colorado Springs, Colorado: 1975 - Summit University Press (Claimed to have been dictated from the ascended master Kuthumi") Page 17
^ Note: see also Formation and evolution of the Solar System
^ Max Heindel, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (Part III, Chapter XV: Christ and His Mission), November 1909, ISBN 0-911274-34-0
^ Heindel, Max, How Shall We Know Christ at His Coming?, May 1913 (stenographic report of a lecture, Los Angeles), ISBN 0-911274-64-2
^ Note: cf. Psalm19:1-6
^ Note: cf. Revelation22:16
^ Note: cf. Matthew17:2 Revelation1:16
^ Note: cf. Ephesians4:9-10
^ The Rosicrucian Fellowship. Rosicrucian Bible MysteriesPDF. Compilation, 2001
^ Tripurari, Swami, Christ, Krishna, Caitanya, The Harmonist, May 31, 2009.
^ "X". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
Further reading
De La Torre, Miguel A., "The Quest for the Cuban Christ: A Historical Search," University Press of Florida, 2002.
Harpur, Tom, The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2004.
McDowell, Joshua and Don Stewart, Handbook of Today's Religions, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983.
Ott, Ludwig, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, 1957.
Michalopoulos, Dimitris (2006): "Islam and Christendom: The distorted relationship". Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, 2, Otoo 2006. Pgs. 201-206.
External links
The Christ concept in Esoteric Christianity Hermes-Press.com
Jesus and Jerusalem feeljerusalem.com
Messianic prophecies fulfilled by Jesus About-Jesus.org
Christ in Islam Islamic view of Messiah
Jewish Messiah Criteria Jews for Judaism
Linkages Between Two God-Men Saviors: Christ and Krishna religioustolerance.org
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