Christology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Western medieval Christology== The [[Franciscan]] piety of the 12th and 13th centuries led to "popular Christology". Systematic approaches by theologians, such as [[Thomas Aquinas]], are called "scholastic Christology".<ref name="mini7">{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Mini S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=christology+franciscan&pg=PA74 |title=Christology: Biblical And Historical |date=2005-01-01 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-8324-007-9 |pages=74β76 |language=en |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214060058/https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=christology+franciscan&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q=christology%20franciscan&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> In the [[Christianity in the 13th century|13th century]], [[Thomas Aquinas]] provided the first systematic Christology that consistently resolved a number of the existing issues.<ref name="GilsonC">{{Citation|last= Gilson|first= Etienne|title= The Christian Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas|year= 1994|publisher= University of Notre Dame Press|location= Notre Dame, IN|isbn= 978-0-268-00801-7|page= 502}}</ref> In his Christology from above, Aquinas also championed the [[Perfection of Christ|principle of perfection of Christ]]'s human attributes.<ref name="mini76">{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Mini S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA75 |title=Christology: Biblical And Historical |date=2005-01-01 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-8324-007-9 |pages=76β79 |language=en |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214060058/https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=Christology%20aquinas&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|O'Collins|2009|p=208β12}}<ref name="Geest">{{Cite book |last=Goris |first=Harm J. M. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Svfrp2LSlkEC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA27 |title=Aquinas as Authority: A Collection of Studies Presented at the Second Conference of the Thomas Insituut Te Utrecht, December 14-16, 2000 |date=2002 |publisher=Peeters Publishers |isbn=978-90-429-1074-4 |pages=25β35 |language=en |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214060058/https://books.google.com/books?id=Svfrp2LSlkEC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q=Christology%20aquinas&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Middle Ages]] also witnessed the emergence of the "tender image of Jesus" as a friend and a living source of love and comfort, rather than just the ''Kyrios'' image.<ref name=Astley >''Christology: Key Readings in Christian Thought'' by Jeff Astley, David Brown, [[Ann Loades]] 2009 {{ISBN|0-664-23269-8}} p. 106</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page