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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Christ \Christ\, n. [L. Christus, Gr. ?, fr. ? anointed, fr. chri`ein to anoint. See Chrism.] The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
title given to Jesus of Nazareth, Old English crist (by 830, perhaps 675), from Latin Christus, from Greek khristos "the anointed" (translation of Hebrew mashiah; see messiah), noun use of verbal adjective of khriein "to rub, anoint" (see chrism). The Latin term drove out Old English Hæland "healer, savior," as the preferred descriptive term for Jesus.\n
\nA title, treated as a proper name in Old English, but not regularly capitalized until 17c. Pronunciation with long -i- is result of Irish missionary work in England, 7c.-8c. The ch- form, regular since c.1500 in English, was rare before. Capitalization of the word begins 14c. but is not fixed until 17c. The 17c. mystical sect of the Familists edged it toward a verb with Christed "made one with Christ."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of Christ English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
In Christianity, the Christ is a title for the saviour and redeemer who would bring salvation to the Jewish people and mankind. Christians believe Jesus to be the Jewish messiah (Christ) of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Christ, used by Christians as both a name and a title, is synonymous with Jesus.
The role of the Christ in Christianity originated from the concept of the messiah in Judaism. Though the conceptions of the messiah in each religion are similar, for the most part they are distinct from one another due to the split of early Christianity and Judaism in the 1st century.
Though the original followers of Jesus believed Jesus to be the Jewish messiah, e.g. in the Confession of Peter, before the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus was usually referred to as "Jesus of Nazareth" or "Jesus, son of Joseph". Jesus came to be called "Jesus Christ" (meaning "Jesus the Khristós", i.e. "Jesus the Messiah" or "Jesus the Anointed") by his followers after his crucifixion and resurrection. Christians believe that the messianic prophecies were fulfilled in his mission, death, and resurrection. The Pauline epistles, the earliest texts of the New Testament, often refer to Jesus as "Christ Jesus" or "Christ". The word Christ was originally a title, but later became part of the name "Jesus Christ". It is, however, still also used as a title, in the reciprocal use "Christ Jesus", meaning "the Messiah Jesus", and independently as "the Christ".
The followers of Jesus became known as Christians (as in Acts ) because they believed Jesus to be the Khristós or Mashiach prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. Jesus was not, and is not, accepted in Judaism as a Jewish messiah, and the concept of a divine messiah was always rejected by Judaism as idolatry. Religious Jews still await their messiah's first coming and the Messianic prophecies of Jewish tradition to be accomplished. Religious Christians believe in the Second Coming of Christ, and they await the rest of Christian messianic prophecies to be fulfilled. One of those prophecies, distinctive in both the Jewish and Christian concept of the messiah, is that a Jewish king from the Davidic line, who will be "anointed" with holy anointing oil, will be king of God's kingdom on earth, and rule the Jewish people and mankind during the Messianic Age and World to come. Muslims accept Jesus as al-Masih, the messiah in Islam, but don't believe that the messiah is divine or the Son of God, but do believe he will come again.
The area of Christian theology called Christology is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament.
Christ is a title given to Jesus, in his role as the Jewish Messiah in Christianity.
Christ also may refer to:
- Messiah
- Christ (title), a title for the saviour and redeemer who would bring salvation to the Jewish people and mankind
- Christ (surname)
Christ is a surname.
Those bearing it include:
- Benjamin C. Christ (1824–1869), American soldier
- Konrad H. Christ (1833–1933), historical botanist
- Victor Christ-Janer (1915–2008), American architect
- Carol T. Christ (born 1944), American academic and administrator
- Norman Christ (born c. 1945), American academic
- John Christ (born 1965), American musician
- Jesus Christ Allin 1956-1993) American punk rock musician
- Peaches Christ ( fl. c. 2000), American drag performer
- Grégory Christ (born 1982), French football player
- Johnny Christ (born 1984), American musician
- Sonja Christ (born 1984), 61st German Wine Queen
- Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880-1966), Paternal grandmother of Donald Trump
Usage examples of "christ".
That Joshua had gained his wisdom from the fifth Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, who might himself have been Judas or Christ if only he had foreseen a painful future as clearly as he recalled a blissful past?
Christ, which body, although not informed by those accidents, is yet contained under them.
One fair afternoon, as if to clear their heads, Adams and two or three others climbed the bell tower of Christ Church, up a series of dimly lit, narrow ladders, past the great bells in their yokes, to a point a hundred feet aboveground, where a trap door led to the open air of the arched lantern, above which rose the church spire.
They either comprise statements which are borrowed from the Adoptian Christology, or they testify in an unreflective way to the Dominion and Deity of Christ.
Basilica does host a shrine to the Aedes, the tribal god, as well as shrines to the Christ and the Emperor.
Your sister Fiammetta is betrothed to Christ, Agata is promised to the son of Prince Torre Mosca, and you--your duty is to axcept the bridgroom we have found for you because we love you.
During the time that the AntiChrist rules this world, he will do everything in his power to destroy the true believers in Christ.
In the same way that we worship God the Father through Jesus Christ, the AntiChrist will be the one through whom people will worship Satan.
Apostles, the authenticity of the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite and of the letter of Christ to King Abgarus, preserved and credited by Eusebius.
How long pride of that kind might survive in confrontation with the awareness that it was the arthropodan and crustacean intelligences that could travel between the star-worldsuniting them into an empire vaster than anything Alexander, Augustus, or Jesus Christ could ever have imaginedThomas did not know.
How long pride of that kind might survive in confrontation with the awareness that it was the arthropodan and crustacean intelligences that could travel between the star-worlds--uniting them into an empire vaster than anything Alexander, Augustus, or Jesus Christ could ever have imagined--Thomas did not know.
Does your heart bleed as much when you think of the man who betrayed your Christ?
May the praise be His, and may it be that some Auca, clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, will be with us as we lift our voices in praise before His throne.
Word that there shall be some from every tribe in His presence in the last day and in our hearts we feel that it is pleasing to Him that we should interest ourselves in making an opening into the Auca prison for Christ.
Thirdly, we have unquestionable proofs that, during the period from the Babylonish captivity to the advent of Christ, the Jews borrowed and adapted a great deal from the Persian theology, but no proof that the Persians took any thing from the Jewish theology.