Christo-
(ˌkrɪstəʊ)
combining form of Gr. Χριστός or L. Christus Christ, as in Christo-centric (-ˈsɛntrɪk), a. [see centric], having Christ as its centre; Christocenˈtricity, the state of having Christ as the centre; Christoˈcentrism, Christocentric doctrine; Chrisˈtocracy, the rule or government of Christ; Christoˈcratic a., constituted under the rule of Christ; † Christo-ˈcrucian, Obs. nonce-wd. [f. L. crux, cruc-is cross + -ian, after Rosicrucian], one devoted to the cross of Christ; Christolatry (krɪˈstɒlətrɪ), worship of Christ as divine; Christoˈlogic a. = christological. Christomaniac (-ˈmeɪnɪæk) [see maniac], etc.
| 1873 tr. Oosterzee's Dogmatic i. §7 The claim that Christian Dogmatics shall be Christo-centric. 1888 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 522 Fuller could not make his theology ‘Christo-centric’ without initiating a radical change in the Idea of God. |
| 1921 C. C. Martindale St. Justin iii. 125 Christocentricity is the pivot of Justin's thought. 1955 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. VI. 47 [Beza's] eschatology is devoid of the Christocentricity which it ought to have. 1963 Observer 31 Mar. 22/5 This is the reductio ad absurdum of the narrow Christocentricity which the Churches offer man today. |
| 1912 Von Hugel Eternal Life 198 Schleiermacher..insists..upon so intense a Christocentrism, as to prepare acute collisions with Biblical Criticism. 1939 J. Baillie Our Knowl. of God i. 17 He stands..in the tradition of that Lutheran christo⁓centrism which makes Christ the Mediator no less of knowledge than of salvation. |
| 1925 Brit. Weekly 1 Oct. 5/4 Therefore, he preferred a Christocracy to a democracy. |
| 1907 19th Cent. Dec. 877 Her [sc. the Church's] powers are thus derived from Christ and His Apostles, and her constitution in the matter of teaching, ministry, and government is necessarily Christocratic and Apostolic. |
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 566 Let Rosie-crucians be dumb..a Christocrucian (of which this Apostle was none of the meanest) is an order, etc. |
| 1819 Coleridge Lit. Rem. III. 71 The progress of the Christolatry from the lowest sort of Christodulia. |
| 1920 Harris & Burch Testimonies ii. vii. 66 The first Christian teaching had two sides—the polemic and the evangelic: the anti-Judaic and the Christologic. |
| 1880 Swinburne Study Shaks. 213 The whole Thebaid of Christomaniacs rolled into one. |