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Exploring the Concept of Christ in Various Traditions

This quiz explores various interpretations and teachings related to Jesus Christ across different religious and philosophical traditions, including Gnosticism, Christian Science, and Theosophy.

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1 Other Gnostic texts with Jesus Christ include the Gospel of Thomas and the ________.

2 Most Christians now wait for the Second Coming of Christ when they believe he will fulfill the rest of the ________.

3 In Neo-Theosophy, C.W. Leadbeater promulgated a Nestorian/Gnostic Christology that was taught by ________, is taught by Benjamin Creme, and is accepted today by most Theosophists.

4 In the theology of ________, Mary Baker Eddy, the religion's founder, wrote in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, that:

5 The ________ generally believed not in a Jesus who was a divine person with a human form, but in a spiritual christ who dwelt in Jesus.

6 In the Septuagint version of the ________, it was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew mashiach (messiah), meaning "anointed."

7 [citation needed] The ________ states several such instances, one being:

8 In the Rosicrucian writings of Max Heindel, also known as Western Wisdom Teachings, there is a distinction to be made between ________ and the Christ.

9 [1] It is a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ), usually transliterated into English as ________.

10 The word is in fact used as a ________, hence its common reciprocal use Christ Jesus, meaning The Anointed One, or The Messiah, Jesus.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Gero Cross (pictured) of about 970 AD is one of the earliest known depictions of the dead Christ on the cross.
  • the tablet known as Gabriel's Revelation, written in Hebrew before the birth of Christ, allegedly tells of a man killed by the Romans and resurrected after three days.
  • the ex-monastery of San Francisco in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, has a wax figure of Christ in a glass coffin (pictured), the limbs of which are claimed to be growing.
  • the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i (pictured) in the Cusco Region of Peru commemorates events which included the transformation of a boy into a bush with an image of Christ hanging from it.
  • the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke, the main ceremonial entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople, marked the beginning of the Byzantine Iconoclasm.
  • the Norman church in Pawlett, Somerset has a stained glass window showing Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat.
  • the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to Christ".
  • Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin (pictured) appears to be unique in 15th century art in depicting Christ and God the Father as identical figures.
  • Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity.
  • Peter of Atroa was accused of exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub, not the power of Christ.
  • a woman named Priscilla, wife of Aquila, was one of the first Christian evangelists.
  • in Early Medieval art Christ treading on the beasts (pictured) often showed Christ trampling on a lion, asp, basilisk and dragon, all representing the devil.
  • William Blake sought in his illustrations of Milton's Nativity Ode (example pictured) to depict the rebirth of John Milton's poetry into the creative imagination of Christ.
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