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The debate over whether Jesus is human, divine, or both; Jiang treats it as the problem Constantine needs orthodoxy to settle.
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Christology
The debate over whether Jesus is human, divine, or both; Jiang treats it as the problem Constantine needs orthodoxy to settle.
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Glossary
The debate over Christ's nature, including whether he is divine, human, both, or some combination.
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Christology creates a logical problem: if Jesus is divine, Mary’s birth and Jesus’s death become incoherent; if Jesus is human, the sacrifice makes more sense.
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Jiang links Christian orthodoxy after Augustine to the migration of religious dissidents eastward: if people rejected the official interpretation, they had to leave or die.
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The relationship between God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is presented as a fundamental problem in Christianity from antiquity to the present.
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The Biblical Jesus story introduces contradictions absent from Jiang's reconstruction of Jesus' teaching: God, divine sonship, crucifixion, resurrection, and second coming all have to be reconciled.
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"...doesn't make any sense, okay? So this is a problem with Christology. Is Jesus human or is he divine? And there are different interpretations,..."
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"The first interpretation is, Jesus is divine in heaven, but he's human in the world. Okay, does that make sense? So yes, Mary gave..."
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"...Even today, Christians still fight over it. It's the idea of Christology. What is the nature of Christ? Is he divine? Is he human?..."
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"Okay? So these are client states. All right? So that's the second thing. This is a war society. Okay? Who know how to fight...."
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"So what is the relationship between, okay, Jesus came from heaven to sacrifice himself, right? So what is the relationship between God and Jesus?..."
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"In the Bible, Jesus is the Son of God. And there's a conflict between God and humanity. Remember, we humans committed the original sin...."
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"And this is an extremely powerful story, but it's also very complicated and in many ways contradictory, okay? So if Jesus is the Son..."
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"...two major sources of confusion. The first is what we call Christology. What this is, is the question of like, what's the nature of..."
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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