Glory Jane C.

Bernardino

BSTM 4-1

Project in Christology

WHAT HAVE I LEARNED IN THE SUBJECT CHRISTOLOGY?

Christology is primarily concerned with the identity of Jesus. Because Christianity asserts that Jesus
is human and divine, the discipline asks how both of these can exist in one person. Christology also
investigates how this relates to the life and works of Jesus. How and why did the incarnation and
resurrection occur? Why is salvation offered through Christ? These questions and topics lead to a
greater understanding of who Jesus is, what he did and what all of this means.

During our first lesson we discussed about the Liturgical calendar, and I have learned that, when we
celebrate the liturgy, we are drawn into the love of God, healed, and transformed. As a religious
phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through
activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication or repentance. It forms a basis for
establishing a relationship with a divine agency, as well as with other participants in the liturgy.

We also discussed about the incarnation of God. The idea of a “god” involving himself in the affairs of
men by coming to the earth is not a novel one. In the Greek culture of New Testament times there were
numerous instances in which the “gods” were said to have manifested themselves in human flesh. In our
own times there are numerous examples of “super-beings” who have intervened in human history.

Before the primitive Christian movement, Jesus was hailed as Israel’s “messiah” and “Lord.” In

Greek, these words are christos and kyrios, respectively. Importantly, Christians attributed to Jesus

titles such as these in the context of worship—while they gathered in community to remember Jesus’

deeds, death, and Resurrection; as they prayed through and rediscovered the Scriptures; as they

ritually enacted Jesus’ last supper with his disciples before his death; and so on. The earliest Christians

very much experienced the presence of the Risen Christ among them, even singing hymns to him in a

way that, from an outsider’s point of view, might seem as though they regarded him as God. This is not

to say that the earliest Christians had yet developed a specific vocabulary to speak of Jesus as “God,”

but the evolution of early Christian language and practice shows an unmistakable and steady process

of coming to precisely this conclusion.

By hailing Jesus as “Lord,” the earliest Christians were not just acknowledging Jesus’ authority as

God’s true emissary in the world, and thus one to whom his disciples owed allegiance, but they were

also saying something about Jesus’ exalted status after his death. By raising him from the dead, God

has triumphed over chaos, violence, and death. Jesus is “Lord” of creation, sovereign in human history,

sovereign among the world’s powers, be they social, political, or religious. Paul summarizes this

conviction in one of his letters as he writes that, although many people allege and worship other gods,

“for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord,

Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist” (1 Corinthians 8:5–6). One

cannot help but notice the closest relationship between “God” and “Jesus” in this passage. Though

explicitly monotheistic, both the “Father” and the “Lord Jesus Christ” together are sovereign over

creation and human history.

The Catechism teaches that "Mary is truly 'Mother of God' since she is the mother of the eternal Son
of God made man, who is God himself." According to Catholic teaching, sourced in the John 1:1-14,
Mary did not create the divine person of Jesus, who existed with the Father from all eternity. The
expectation of an Anointed Deliverer is called the messianic hope. This hope was very real for the
ancient house of Israel and extended into the distant past, even into the premortal council in heaven.

The Gospels are your most important resource in a study of Christianity. Christians obtain most of
their knowledge and understanding of Jesus from the Gospels. Christians regard the Gospels as the
Word of God and often treat them with more awe and reverence than other parts of the Bible. Gospel
means ‘good news’. It comes from the Greek word evanglion; hence the Gospel writers are called
evangelists because they are proclaiming the Good News: the Good News that Jesus is the Messiah and
came to show people a new way of living. The bulk of the Gospel texts are concerned with the last three
years of Jesus’ life, when he was teaching, and they also give much space to a description of his arrest,
trial, death and resurrection.

I also learned the difference between apostle and disciple. While a disciple is a student, one who
learns from a teacher, an apostle is sent to deliver those teachings to others. "Apostle" means
messenger, he who is sent. An apostle is sent to deliver or spread those teachings to others. ... We can
say that all apostles were disciples but all disciples are not apostles. The different characteristics of the
disciples and apostles.
 The Lord's Prayer is the most widely known prayer in Christianity and is said across most Christian
denominations . Jesus often spoke about the importance of prayer for developing a relationship with
God. When asked by his followers how they should pray, he taught them the Lord's Prayer (Matthew
6:9–13).

Kingdom of God, also called Kingdom Of Heaven, in Christianity, the spiritual realm over which God
reigns as king, or the fulfillment on Earth of God's will. The phrase occurs frequently in the New
Testament, primarily used by Jesus Christ in the first three Gospels.

Parables open our eyes to deeper insights into Christ and His kingdom and give us a greater glimpse
into the spiritual realm. To conceal truth: Jesus explained, “Therefore I speak to them in parables,
because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Three reasons
parables are important, First they convey the heart of the message, second they show that Jesus was an
outstanding teacher and and last they give us a good idea of how Jesus' was able to defend himself
against those who opposed him.

The miracles of Jesus serve as a glimpse and foretaste of what God will accomplish on a grand,
universal scale when Jesus comes to establish the New Heaven and the New Earth. The miracles of Jesus
offer a preview of that glorious day. The miracles offer a glimpse of Heaven on earth.

All thanks to my Professor Sir Dom for all the learnings and wisdom you have shared with us.