The pre-existence of Christ asserts the existence of Christ prior to his incarnation as Jesus. One of the relevant Bible passages is John 1:1–18 where...

is placed into the body. Concepts of pre-existence can encompass either the belief that the soul came into existence at some time prior to conception or...

approaches that include aspects of divinity, such as Lord and Son of God, and the idea of the pre-existence of Christ as the Logos ('the Word'), as expressed...

actions of free agents and rejection of the pre-existence of Christ. The beliefs of Socinianism date from the wing of the Protestant Reformation known as...

history: Arian, which believed in a pre-existence of the Logos; Socinian, which denied his pre-existence, but agreed that Christ should be worshipped; "Strict...

professed by believers in Christ. The pre-existence of Christ refers to the existence of Christ before his incarnation as Jesus. One of the relevant New Testament...

theology, the doctrine of incarnation teaches that the pre-existent divine person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, and the...

about 1400.[need quotation to verify] Angel of the Lord Divine Mercy (Catholic devotion) Pre-existence of Christ Theophany Carey C. Newman Paul's glory-christology:...

example, rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity and the pre-existence of Christ was a feature of Socinianism. However, restrictions on religious freedom...

Beryllus of Bostra (fl. c. 222–235) was a bishop of Bostra whose writings are lost but is mainly remembered for denying the pre-existence of Christ, and also...

title of Jesus Christ, seen as the pre-existent second person of the Trinity. In the Douay–Rheims, King James, New International, and other versions of the...

fourteen from the exile to the Christ." Matthew emphasizes, right from the beginning, Jesus' title Christ—the Greek rendering of the Hebrew title Messiah—meaning...

as pre-existence of Christ, Son of man, the hypostatic union, etc. For instance, in Johannine "Christology from above" which begins with the pre-existence...

the pre-existing Muhammad takes some resemblance of the Christian doctrine of the pre-existence of Christ, Muhammad is considered human in essence, not a...

not accept the personal pre-existence of Christ, their interpretations of Philippians 2:7, and the concept of kenosis—Christ "emptying" himself—take as...

absolute lordship of Jesus. In early Christian belief, the concept of Kyrios included the pre-existence of Christ for they believed that if Christ is one with...

Virtually all scholars dismiss theories of Jesus's non-existence or regard them as refuted. In modern scholarship, the Christ myth theory is a fringe theory and...

Trinity, but also the pre-existence of Christ as well as, in many cases, predestination and original sin as put forward by Augustine of Hippo, and the substitutionary...

Word of God and his Christology appears to be Socinian, denying the pre-existence of Christ but accepting the virgin birth. Biddle's denial of the pre-existence...

the same as Jesus Christ himself did in the flesh and like us." A now reversed teachings by top leaders about God in the pre-existence is the Adam-God doctrine...

generated the flesh of Christ in His earthly mortal body. But most of Christians also believe in the pre-existence of Christ from the eternity in a human-divine...

(who denied the divinity of Jesus), and the Arians (who subordinated the Son to the Father by denying the pre-existence of Christ, thus placing Jesus as...

conception of Jesus. For Photinus the Logos was simply a mode of manifestation of the Father, hence he denied the pre-existence of Christ and saw theophanies...

with God", referring to the pre-existence of Christ. The term is used in the Gospel of John in the context of the Water of Life and John 4:14 states: "the...

though in denial of the pre-existence of Christ they were again largely Socinians, not Arians. In 1683, when Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury...

will exist and happen. Despite some resemblance of the Christian doctrine of the pre-existence of Christ, Islam always depicts Muhammad as a created being...

Trinity, to the person and personality of the Holy Spirit, to the pre-existence of Christ, but not to the virgin birth. This then appears to be what would...

pre-existence of Christ) were different from those of the Polish Socinians (rejecting belief in Jesus' pre-existence), and again from the generation of Thomas...

discourse is rich with Christological content, e.g. it reiterates the Pre-existence of Christ in John 17:5 when Jesus refers to the glory which he had with the...

Arian section of the Ecclesia Minor from belief in the pre-existence of Christ to the early Unitarian position, and from their rejection of the invocatio...