Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having Christ as a center; regarding Christ as the center of history or of the universe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion.
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- adjective of a form of
Christianity that concentrates on the teaching ofJesus Christ
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Examples
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Tools he used included [a] fervent return to the original texts, determined anthropocentrism (if in Christocentric form); and the affirmation of his own organ of genius and draftsmanship, namely the voice of the vernacular.
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Tools he used included [a] fervent return to the original texts, determined anthropocentrism (if in Christocentric form); and the affirmation of his own organ of genius and draftsmanship, namely the voice of the vernacular.
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This, however, is but one side of the American message in the nineteenth century; evidence abounds that a 'Christocentric' type of teaching, with adhesion to much of old material of the Gospels, held its own till a generation ago, and its peculiar accent is not without echoes to-day.
Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890
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This is not to upend what you are doing here, or to suggest that John's Apocalypse is not "Christocentric"
Inhabitatio Dei celucien joseph 2008
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All of these images, even those that were not Christocentric, allowed the women to position themselves within the wider Christian community, both on earth and in heaven.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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As seen above, there is ample evidence of Christocentric Passion piety, as well as, we will see, Passion piety directed towards Saint John and the Virgin Mary. 56
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Note 56: The Vesperbild, although illustrating an event in Christ's life, is essentially a Marian, not Christocentric image.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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But we do not necessarily differ over the recognition of a diversity of voices in scripture, or over the need, from a confessional point of view of interpreting individual passages in light of all others a long-standing principle of the Reformed tradition, one reason it tends to be theocentric rather than merely Christocentric.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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It was a spirituality that interacted closely with the material elements of the monastic environment, utilizing the predominately Christocentric images that surrounded the cloistered inhabitants.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Of the eight small miniatures, six are Christocentric and portray the following scenes: Christ's Presentation in the Temple (sometimes also known as the Purification); the
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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