Jesus Christ the Person
A Sociological Reconstructing for Atheists and Believers
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The author analyzed the phenomenon of Jesus as a real existing person, God-man, unique in the history of mankind, who appeared, thanks to the irrefutable interference of the highest forces, to give us a graphic lesson that we would understand.
What was this lesson?
• That the Pantocrator, God, exists.
• That He created the world and people, and He continues creating them today.
• That the main way of perfecting man is awakening in them God's divinity and the Holy Spirit, which they have lost. When that happens, the kingdom of heaven will gradually appear in the heart of a person and in society.
• That a real step to this kingdom is man overcoming his own sinfulness through repentance and purifying the flesh and the spirit, through taking Christ as the Lord and Expiator. But that one can reach the kingdom in full measure if one learns the art of the Christian love of God, one's neighbor and one's enemy. It must be to the point of self-abnegation and forgiveness of evil. One must serve them and wholeheartedly give oneself over to them.
• That immortality in a transformed form is reality, the reality of the ascent to the primary source, God.
• That it opens through faith which is an especially deep understanding of existence, and can be obtained through the person of God-man Jesus Christ Himself, who is the way to the kingdom of heaven and whose "liek" stays here on earth among people.
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In Jesus Christ the Person , author Nikolai Vladimirov uses a socio-spiritual method of analysis that supposes the social perception of the invisible, hidden, transcendental sides of reality in order to investigate Jesus Christ as a real, existing Person.
Vladimirov analyzes the main milestones in Jesus Christ’s life chronologically:
• the period before He was born
• His socialization, taking place between childhood and adolescence
• the reconstruction of His physical appearance and His language
• His emotions
• His way of thinking
• the level of knowledge He gave people
• His mission and deeds
• His posthumous acts, resurrection, and returning to His father
Jesus Christ the Person shares Vladimirov’s interpretation of a host of ideas related to sociological analysis of Jesus Christ the Person. He draws on his religious insight, using many examples to provide a guide for those seeking information about this aspect of Christian history.
About the Author
NIKOLAI VLADIMIROV was born in Russia. He is a professor of sociology at the Moscow State University of Culture and Art and is a specialist in the sphere of personal spiritual development.