Jesuism

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛzu.ɪzəm/

Noun

Jesuism (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) The teachings or worship of Jesus, as opposed to Christianity as a whole.
   • 1794, John Rippon, The Baptist annual register; including sketches of the state of religion among different denominations of good men at home and abroad, volume 2:

     A sentiment this, which is as far from a weak Arminianism as it is opposite to a wicked Antinomianism, and which may strictly be denominated pure Jesuism.

   • 1870 November, “Dr. J. F. Clarke against theism”, in The Examiner, volume 1, number 1:

     The Jesuism which makes Jesus an object of religious faith is pseudo-Christian. That Jesuism which makes Jesus very God, has some claims to be considered religion. But that which makes him, as Dr. Clarke's does, a mere "perfect specimen of a man," is no religion at all; it is mere hero-worship.

   • 1909, Paul Carus, “Christianity as the pleroma”, in The Open Court, volume 23, page 424:

     The religion of the Christians has for good reasons been called, not Jesuism after the name of Jesus, but Christianity after Christ, the ideal of humanity, which is not an individual being but a superpersonal presence, not a man who lived and died at a certain time, but like the Platonic ideas, an eternal type, the prototype of the highest ideal of manhood.

Synonyms

• Jesusism, Jesuanism

Further reading

• Jesuism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia