Jesusanity

English

Etymology

Blend of Jesus +‎ Christianity

Noun

Jesusanity (uncountable)

  1. (informal) A form of Christian religion focusing on Jesus to the exclusion of God.
    • 2009, Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?
      Certain forms of liberal theology extol the fatherhood of God but (like Islam) reduce Jesus to the status of a prophet and regard the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force. There is also a kind of “Jesusanity” that ignores the Son's relationship to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
    • 2011, Jonathan Morrow, Think Christianly
      Darrell Bock, a prominent evangelical New Testament scholar and coauthor of Dethroning Jesus, sums up the cultural conversation about Jesus in terms of Jesusanity versus Christianity.
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