Jesus Christ

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The development of our Churches understanding of Christ is intriguing and exciting. This essay will explore the development of how the Church understood the person of Jesus Christ during the first five centuries, the challenges that were faced and the teachings that emerged, taking account of the varied currents of opposition and problems that were faced and solved by a multitude of thinkers.
Jesus Christ is the source and the centre of the Church. We believe that Jesus Christ the Son Incarnate is the ‘way’ to the Father. who do you say I am
“ I am the way, the truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father, but through me.” (Jn 14:6)
Through the centuries the church has faced a paradox as on one hand we meet God in the person of Jesus, on the other hand the Father abides beyond Jesus. The church is centred on the person of Jesus Christ because in him Christians learn to discover who God really is and thus who human beings are and what our true origin and destiny is. The role of the church, amongst others is to accompany humankind on its pilgrimage through the ages in developing our understanding of Jesus. (Dupuis , J) –who do you say I am
As the central figure of the Christian faith is our Lord, Jesus Christ, he needs to be understood, so we look to the New Testament. The life of Jesus is described in the Four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Church has taken this knowledge amongst other writings in the bible to develop Christology. I will now discuss how the early church during the first five centuries has developed its understanding of the person of Christ from this.
The Christian movement probably began from many different centres, where different groups of disciples of Jesus gathered and tried to ma...

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...osed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as to his humanity; "like us in all things but sin". He was begotten from the Father before all ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God.91’ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm

As we have seen the early Church faced many conflicts and difficulties whilst trying to understand the Person of Jesus, through their thinking and understanding and teaching we now have the Catholic teaching we know and teach today .
That God without losing his divine nature he has assumed human nature. That Jesus Christ is true God and true man. For this reason he is the one and only mediator between God and us and this Incarnation is a mystery.

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