Greek PATERology Armenian HIERology the origin of the word HIERarchy
The 25th century BC comprises the years from 2500 BC to 2401 BC
From c. 2900–2334 BC we have Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
c. 2500 BC: Scribal schools flourish throughout Sumer.
c. 2500 BC: Assyria is established.
c. 2500 BC: Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression are made.
c. 2500–2250 BC: Ebla tablets are collected in the ancient city of Ebla, Syria.
c. 2492 BC: Traditional date for the legendary foundation of Armenia by Hayk was 4522 years ago!
From c. 2900–2334 BC we have Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
c. 2500 BC: Scribal schools flourish throughout Sumer.
c. 2500 BC: Assyria is established.
c. 2500 BC: Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression are made.
c. 2500–2250 BC: Ebla tablets are collected in the ancient city of Ebla, Syria.
c. 2492 BC: Traditional date for the legendary foundation of Armenia by Hayk was 4522 years ago!
c. 2450 BC: End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Sumer.
c. 2450 BC: Kish is lost to Hamazi tribesmen of the Kurdistan mountains; Elam under the Awan dynasty occupies parts of Sumer. (Roux 1980)
c. 2410 BC: By this time, kings in Sumer have ceased to be automatically high priests of the city deity. (Roux 1980) Infiltration and conquest of Mesopotamia by ancient Semitic-speaking peoples begins. Earliest signs of Corded Ware culture from the Caucasus. Amorites and Canaanites occupy Syria and Lebanon. Statue of Ebih-Il, at Mari. Sumerians use domestic donkeys on war chariots (Standard of Ur), not onagers as early interpreters claimed. Also relevent is the fact that wooden boats cruised along the Nile River in Egypt as thousands of workers stack giant stone blocks into a pyramid. This 200-foot-tall structure honors a pharaoh named Menkaure. 2500 BC: The Pyramid of Khafre, Giza, is built and the sculpture Khafre Enthroned is made.
c. 2450 BC: Kish is lost to Hamazi tribesmen of the Kurdistan mountains; Elam under the Awan dynasty occupies parts of Sumer. (Roux 1980)
c. 2410 BC: By this time, kings in Sumer have ceased to be automatically high priests of the city deity. (Roux 1980) Infiltration and conquest of Mesopotamia by ancient Semitic-speaking peoples begins. Earliest signs of Corded Ware culture from the Caucasus. Amorites and Canaanites occupy Syria and Lebanon. Statue of Ebih-Il, at Mari. Sumerians use domestic donkeys on war chariots (Standard of Ur), not onagers as early interpreters claimed. Also relevent is the fact that wooden boats cruised along the Nile River in Egypt as thousands of workers stack giant stone blocks into a pyramid. This 200-foot-tall structure honors a pharaoh named Menkaure. 2500 BC: The Pyramid of Khafre, Giza, is built and the sculpture Khafre Enthroned is made.
Sometime before the 25th century bc the Sumerian Empire, under the leadership of Lugalanemundu of Adab (flourished about 2525–2500 bc), was extended from the Zagros to the Taurus mountains and from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. Subsequently the empire was ruled by Mesilim (fl. about 2500 bc), king of Kish. By the end of his reign, Sumer had begun to decline. The Sumerian city-states engaged in constant internecine struggle, exhausting their military resources. Eannatum (fl. about 2425 bc), one of the rulers of Lagash, succeeded in extending his rule throughout Sumer and some of the neighboring lands. His success, however, was short-lived. The last of his successors, Uruinimgina (fl. about 2365 bc), who was noteworthy for instituting many social reforms, was defeated by Lugalzagesi (reigned about 2370–2347 bc), the governor of the neighboring city-state of Umma. Thereafter, for about 20 years, Lugalzagesi was the most powerful ruler in the Middle East.
By the 23rd century bc the power of the Sumerians had declined to such an extent that they could no longer defend themselves against foreign invasion. The Semitic ruler Sargon I (reigned about 2335–2279 bc), called The Great, succeeded in conquering the entire country. Sargon of Akkad is identified by some scholars as the Nimrod in the Old Testament. Sargon toppled Lugalzagesi of Uruk, Sumer’s dominant ruler at the time. Uniting Akkad with Sumer as part of his conquest of Mesopotamia, Sargon forged history’s first multinational empire.Commerce was one way cuneiform spread, but scholars believe that conquest was another. Sumerian cities conquering each other expedited cultural exchanges. For instance, Eannatum of Lagash brought not only much of Sumer under his control in around 2500 B.C. but also areas of Elam to the east. Ironically, however, the durability of Sumerian literary culture and the use of the cuneiform system—which later spread throughout the Near East and remained in use until as late as A.D. 75—owes less to Sumer conquering than its being conquered.
By the 23rd century bc the power of the Sumerians had declined to such an extent that they could no longer defend themselves against foreign invasion. The Semitic ruler Sargon I (reigned about 2335–2279 bc), called The Great, succeeded in conquering the entire country. Sargon of Akkad is identified by some scholars as the Nimrod in the Old Testament. Sargon toppled Lugalzagesi of Uruk, Sumer’s dominant ruler at the time. Uniting Akkad with Sumer as part of his conquest of Mesopotamia, Sargon forged history’s first multinational empire.Commerce was one way cuneiform spread, but scholars believe that conquest was another. Sumerian cities conquering each other expedited cultural exchanges. For instance, Eannatum of Lagash brought not only much of Sumer under his control in around 2500 B.C. but also areas of Elam to the east. Ironically, however, the durability of Sumerian literary culture and the use of the cuneiform system—which later spread throughout the Near East and remained in use until as late as A.D. 75—owes less to Sumer conquering than its being conquered.
Mesopotamian women in Sumer, the first Mesopotamian culture, had more rights than they did in the later Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian cultures. Sumerian women could own property, run businesses along with their husbands, become priestesses, scribes, physicians and act as judges and witnesses in courts. In the transition period in Mesopotamia during the early period toward a patriarchal social structure, there were many who distinguished themselves and some who were able to assume positions traditionally held by men. Women served as generals, scribes, and even ruled in their own right.
In a phrase, այր եւ կին, husband and wife.
այրաբար, adverb Manly, manfully, like a man. այրական, adjective Male, virile, manly.
այրաբար, adverb Manly, manfully, like a man. այրական, adjective Male, virile, manly.
Maya In Greek, Maya means “good mother,” the Greek variation of the name is also sometimes spelled Maia. In Greek mythology, Maya was the mother of the Greek god Hermes, son of Zeus. She was also the eldest of the Pleiades, who were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas. Magia is an ancient Greek name and was one of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, that were representing a star cluster. Magos as a name has a rather weird story. They say that he was a pagan or an enemy of the Christians. He was giving poison drip by drip to St Hermeias.
At some point, Hermeias managed to convince him about his wrong actions and Magos accepted the Christian religion, showing regret for everything he had done. Both men died when they were decapitated by the pagan rulers of his city. The Church later declared Magos a martyr and saint and celebrates the his namesday as Magia on May 31st. Magos and he had a rather weird story. He used to be a pagan or an enemy of the Christians. He was giving poison to several men and women, among who St Hermeias and more. The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him.
The Pre-Greek or Armenian substrate consists of the unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the coming of the Proto-Greek language in the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age. It is possible that Greek acquired some thousand words and proper names from such a language or group of languages, because some of its vocabulary cannot be satisfactorily explained as deriving from Proto-Greek and a Proto-Indo-European reconstruction is almost impossible for such terms.[
ARYAMAN signifies "Life-Partner", "close friend", "Partner", "play-fellow" or "companion".
Miar
մայր, noun Cedar, pine-tree.
մայր, noun Mother, mamma; matrix, mould; spring.
Phrases related to Mother, Mier in Armenian.
մայր արեւու, n. the West, sunset.
արեւը մայր կը մտնէ, the sun sets.
մայր դուռ, chief doorway, portal, front gate.
մայր եկեղեցի, cathedral church, mother church.
մայր թագուհի, mother-queen.
մայր լեզու, mother tongue.
մայր շնչերակ, n. (anat.) aorta.
մայր վանից, abbess, prioress.մայր տառ, matrix.
մայր քաղաքաց, capital, metropolis. "ama" is a Sumerian word which means "mother." “ummu” is the Akkadian word for “mother”, derived from the Sumerian word “ama”
Hiarհայր, noun Father.
Phrases related to father, Hiar in Armenian.
երկնաւոր հայր, Heavenly father.
հոգեւոր հայր, Spiritual father.
HIAR AND MIAR
An Heir in English is a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.
His the fathers eldest son is the heir, or the saying son and heir clearly indicates the rank and order. An heir is the person who inherits and continues the work of a predecessor, his father in a patriarchal, hierarchical order. An heir is one who receives property from an ancestor, one who is entitled to inherit property. Also a monarchy where one inherits or is entitled to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office, an heir to the throne.
At some point, Hermeias managed to convince him about his wrong actions and Magos accepted the Christian religion, showing regret for everything he had done. Both men died when they were decapitated by the pagan rulers of his city. The Church later declared Magos a martyr and saint and celebrates the his namesday as Magia on May 31st. Magos and he had a rather weird story. He used to be a pagan or an enemy of the Christians. He was giving poison to several men and women, among who St Hermeias and more. The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him.
The Pre-Greek or Armenian substrate consists of the unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the coming of the Proto-Greek language in the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age. It is possible that Greek acquired some thousand words and proper names from such a language or group of languages, because some of its vocabulary cannot be satisfactorily explained as deriving from Proto-Greek and a Proto-Indo-European reconstruction is almost impossible for such terms.[
ARYAMAN signifies "Life-Partner", "close friend", "Partner", "play-fellow" or "companion".
Miar
մայր, noun Cedar, pine-tree.
մայր, noun Mother, mamma; matrix, mould; spring.
Phrases related to Mother, Mier in Armenian.
մայր արեւու, n. the West, sunset.
արեւը մայր կը մտնէ, the sun sets.
մայր դուռ, chief doorway, portal, front gate.
մայր եկեղեցի, cathedral church, mother church.
մայր թագուհի, mother-queen.
մայր լեզու, mother tongue.
մայր շնչերակ, n. (anat.) aorta.
մայր վանից, abbess, prioress.մայր տառ, matrix.
մայր քաղաքաց, capital, metropolis. "ama" is a Sumerian word which means "mother." “ummu” is the Akkadian word for “mother”, derived from the Sumerian word “ama”
Hiarհայր, noun Father.
Phrases related to father, Hiar in Armenian.
երկնաւոր հայր, Heavenly father.
հոգեւոր հայր, Spiritual father.
HIAR AND MIAR
An Heir in English is a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.
His the fathers eldest son is the heir, or the saying son and heir clearly indicates the rank and order. An heir is the person who inherits and continues the work of a predecessor, his father in a patriarchal, hierarchical order. An heir is one who receives property from an ancestor, one who is entitled to inherit property. Also a monarchy where one inherits or is entitled to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office, an heir to the throne.
I agree with the theory that patriarchal social structures developed after the end of the Pleistocene epoch, following social and technological developments such as agriculture and domestication. Historical research has not yet found a specific "initiating event", no single event, that we can point to. I agree with the scholars that point to the social and technological events that started about six thousand years ago (4000 BCE), in Sumer, that came to a head about 5000 years ago.
Paterology, or Patriology, in Christian theology, refers to the study of God the Father. Both terms are derived from two Greek words: πατήρ (patḗr, father) and λογος (logos, teaching). As a distinctive theological discipline, within Theology proper, Paterology is closely related to Christology (study of Christ as God the Son) and Pneumatology (study of the Holy Spirit as God the Spirit)
Paterology, or Patriology,[1][2] in Christian theology, refers to the study of God the Father. Both terms are derived from two Greek words: πατήρ (patḗr, father) and λογος (logos, teaching). As a distinctive theological discipline, within Theology proper, Paterology is closely related to Christology (study of Christ as God the Son) and Pneumatology (study of the Holy Spirit as God the Spirit).
Christian Paterology is primarily based on the study and interpretation of Bible verses that refer to God as "Father". In the Old Testament, God is called by the title "Father". God is seen as "Father" to all men because he created the world (and in that sense "fathered" the world). In the Hebrew Scriptures, in Book of Isaiah 63:16 (JP) it reads: "For You are our father, for Abraham did not know us, neither did Israel recognize us; You, O Lord, are our father; our redeemer of old is your name." According to Judaism, God is attributed with fatherly role of protector. He is titled the Father of the poor, of the widows and orphans. He is also titled the Father of the king, as the teacher and helper over the judge of Israel.[5]
There are three basic forms of the name of God the Father in the New Testament: Theos (θεός the Greek word for God), Kyrios (i.e. Lord in Greek) and Patḗr (Πατήρ i.e. Father in Greek). Also, the Aramaic word "Abba" (אבא; Father), is used in Mark 14:36 and in Romans 8:15 and Galatians 4:6.[6] The word for Father was chosen to coin the name of the discipline because Paterology involves particular studies of the person of God the Father, and the works of the Father. In both the Old Testament and New Testament the term "Father" when used for God is a metaphor. It is not a proper name for God, but just one of many titles by which Jews and Christians speak of and to God.
In Christian theology, fatherhood of God is seen in a more substantive sense, centered around metaphysical rather than metaphorical interpretations of various questions about relations between the Father and the Son. Christian sense of participation in the eternal relationship of Father and Son, through Jesus Christ, is symbolically represented by the notion that Christians are adopted children of God:
Subordinationism is a Trinitarian doctrine wherein the Son (and sometimes also the Holy Spirit) is subordinate to the Father, not only in submission and role, but with actual ontological subordination to varying degrees.[1] It posits a hierarchical ranking of the persons of the Trinity, implying ontological subordination of the persons of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Ontological Christology analyzes the nature or being[web 5] of Jesus Christ. "Functional Christology" analyzes the works of Jesus Christ, while "soteriological Christology" analyzes the "salvific" standpoints of Christology.
Historically in the Alexandrian school of thought (fashioned on the Gospel of John), Jesus Christ is the eternal Logos who already possesses unity with the Father before the act of Incarnation.[49] In contrast, the Antiochian school viewed Christ as a single, unified human person apart from his relationship to the divine.
The title Kyrios for Jesus is central to the development of New Testament Christology.[53] In the Septuagint it translates the Tetragrammaton, the holy Name of God. As such, it closely links Jesus with God – in the same way a verse such as Matthew 28:19, "The Name (singular) of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit".[54]
Kyrios is also conjectured to be the Greek translation of Aramaic Mari, which in everyday Aramaic usage was a very respectful form of polite address, which means more than just 'teacher' and was somewhat similar to 'rabbi'. While the term Mari expressed the relationship between Jesus and his disciples during his life, the Greek Kyrios came to represent his lordship over the world.[55]
The threefold office (Latin munus triplex) of Jesus Christ is a Christian doctrine based upon the teachings of the Old Testament. It was described by Eusebius and more fully developed by John Calvin. It states that Jesus Christ performed three functions (or "offices") in his earthly ministry – those of prophet, priest, and king. In the Old Testament, the appointment of someone to any of these three positions could be indicated by anointing him or her by pouring oil over the head. Thus, the term messiah, meaning "anointed one", is associated with the concept of the threefold office. While the office of king is that most frequently associated with the Messiah, the role of Jesus as priest is also prominent in the New Testament, being most fully explained in chapters 7 to 10 of the Book of Hebrews.
In Christianity, Christology (from the Greek Χριστός, Khristós and -λογία, -logia), translated from Greek as 'the study of Christ', is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus. Different denominations have different opinions on questions such as whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah what his role would be in the freeing of the Jewish people from foreign rulers or in the prophesied Kingdom of God, and in the salvation from what would otherwise be the consequences of sin.
The earliest Christian writings gave several titles to Jesus, such as Son of Man, Son of God, Messiah, and Kyrios, which were all derived from Hebrew scripture.[web 1] These terms centered around two opposing themes, namely "Jesus as a preexistent figure who becomes human and then returns to God", versus adoptionism – that Jesus was human who was "adopted" by God at his baptism, crucifixion, or resurrection.
Marxist theory, as articulated mainly by Friedrich Engels in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, assigns the origin of patriarchy to the emergence of private property, which has traditionally been controlled by men. In this view, men directed household production and 'sought' to control women in order to ensure the passing of family property to their own (male) offspring, while women were limited to household labor and producing children. Domination by men of women is found in the Ancient Near East as far back as 3100 BCE, as are restrictions on a woman's reproductive capacity and exclusion from "the process of representing or the construction of history". Steven Taylor argues that the rise of patriarchal domination was associated with the appearance of socially stratified hierarchical polities, institutionalised violence against women who are more prone to being abused and need a strong man to protect them and their children especially from the separated individuated masculin super ego associated with the period which was followedby a period of climatic stress. According to standard sociological theory, patriarchy is the result of sociological constructions that are passed down from generation to generation.[66] These constructions are most pronounced in societies with traditional cultures. Gendered organization theory pays particular attention to how gender interacts with different dimensions of social, political, economic, and technological life and how this is mobilized in organizations.
Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory. The term can serve somewhat different functions in each field; however, the foundation of this theoretical framework suggests various facets of social reality—such as concepts, beliefs, norms, and values—are formed through continuous interactions and negotiations among society's members, rather than empirical observation of physical reality. The theory of social constructionism posits that much of what individuals perceive as 'reality' is actually the outcome of a dynamic process of construction influenced by social conventions and structures.[2]
Unlike phenomena that are innately determined or biologically predetermined, these social constructs are collectively formulated, sustained, and shaped by the social contexts in which they exist. These constructs significantly impact both the behavior and perceptions of individuals, often being internalized based on cultural narratives, whether or not these are empirically verifiable. In this two-way process of reality construction, individuals not only interpret and assimilate information through their social relations but also contribute to shaping existing societal narratives.
Examples of social constructs range widely, encompassing the assigned value of money, conceptions of concept of self/self-identity, beauty standards, gender, language, race, ethnicity, social class, social hierarchy, nationality, religion, social norms, the modern calendar and other units of time, marriage, education, citizenship, stereotypes, femininity and masculinity, social institutions, and even the idea of 'social construct' itself. These constructs are not universal truths but are flexible entities that can vary dramatically across different cultures and societies. They arise from collaborative consensus and are shaped and maintained through collective human interactions, cultural practices, and shared beliefs. This articulates the view that people in society construct ideas or concepts that may not exist without the existence of people or language to validate those concepts, meaning without a society these constructs would cease to exist.[7]
A social construct or construction is the meaning, notion, or connotation placed on an object or event by a society, and adopted by that society with respect to how they view or deal with the object or event.
Social constructionism posits that the meanings of phenomena do not have an independent foundation outside the mental and linguistic representation that people develop about them throughout their history, and which becomes their shared reality.
From a linguistic viewpoint, social constructionism centres meaning as an internal reference within language (words refer to words, definitions to other definitions) rather than to an external reality.
Critics argue that social constructionism rejects the influences of biology on behaviour and culture, or suggests that they are unimportant to achieve an understanding of human behaviour. Social constructionism has also been criticized for having an overly narrow focus on society and culture as a causal factor in human behavior, excluding the influence of innate biological tendencies.
In philosophy, a construct is an object which is ideal, that is, an object of the mind or of thought, meaning that its existence may be said to depend upon a subject's mind. This contrasts with any possibly mind-independent objects, the existence of which purportedly does not depend on the existence of a conscious observing subject.[1] Thus, the distinction between these two terms may be compared to that between phenomenon and noumenon in other philosophical contexts and to many of the typical definitions of the terms realism and idealism also. In the correspondence theory of truth, ideas, such as constructs, are to be judged and checked according to how well they correspond with their referents, often conceived as part of a mind-independent reality.
Greek PATERology Armenian HIERology the origin of the word HIERarchy.
I believe that the best place to start trying to work out the origin of the Armenians the 'Hie' is by attempting to discover the mind of the creator of the Armenian language. My research starts in the rhelm of the social and political sciences. I think that it is easy when you look at Armenian as a historian linguist as well as a socal and political scientist. The question of the origin of the earley spoken Armenian language, which has survived some claim is 5000 years . Before I go further I wish to posit that Armenian is an a priory language thew core of which has been brought forward for us to scrutanize.
I would like to start my exposition from the given names in Armenian for father mother and the first son. I assume that we agree that all social and political structures are organized in a system that ranks things, according to power and importance. The word that comes to mind is hierarchy which Wikipedia says originates from the Greek: ἱεραρχία, hierarkhia, meaning 'rule of a high priest', from hierarkhes, a title given to the 'president of sacred rites'.
The word hierchy is today understood to reffer to an arrangement of names, values, categories, objects etc. that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is the most important concept, I would suggest that before political science and social sciences were thought of especially political science the concept covered all fields starting with the organizational theory of patriarchy which is a system of relationships, beliefs, and values embedded in political, social, and economic systems that structure gender inequality between men and women. At this stage I would suggest that primarily it was applied by Linguistics, today the ones that study the science of language. The study of specific languages. leaving out the traditional areas of linguistic analysis that correspond to syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language), and pragmatics (how social context contributes to meaning). Subdisciplines such as biolinguistics (the study of the biological variables and evolution of language) and psycholinguistics (the study of psychological factors in human language) bridge many of these divisions.Paterology, or Patriology, in Christian theology, refers to the study of God the Father. Both terms are derived from two Greek words: πατήρ (patḗr, father) and λογος (logos, teaching). As a distinctive theological discipline, within Theology proper, Paterology is closely related to Christology (study of Christ as God the Son) and Pneumatology (study of the Holy Spirit as God the Spirit)
Paterology, or Patriology,[1][2] in Christian theology, refers to the study of God the Father. Both terms are derived from two Greek words: πατήρ (patḗr, father) and λογος (logos, teaching). As a distinctive theological discipline, within Theology proper, Paterology is closely related to Christology (study of Christ as God the Son) and Pneumatology (study of the Holy Spirit as God the Spirit).
Christian Paterology is primarily based on the study and interpretation of Bible verses that refer to God as "Father". In the Old Testament, God is called by the title "Father". God is seen as "Father" to all men because he created the world (and in that sense "fathered" the world). In the Hebrew Scriptures, in Book of Isaiah 63:16 (JP) it reads: "For You are our father, for Abraham did not know us, neither did Israel recognize us; You, O Lord, are our father; our redeemer of old is your name." According to Judaism, God is attributed with fatherly role of protector. He is titled the Father of the poor, of the widows and orphans. He is also titled the Father of the king, as the teacher and helper over the judge of Israel.[5]
There are three basic forms of the name of God the Father in the New Testament: Theos (θεός the Greek word for God), Kyrios (i.e. Lord in Greek) and Patḗr (Πατήρ i.e. Father in Greek). Also, the Aramaic word "Abba" (אבא; Father), is used in Mark 14:36 and in Romans 8:15 and Galatians 4:6.[6] The word for Father was chosen to coin the name of the discipline because Paterology involves particular studies of the person of God the Father, and the works of the Father. In both the Old Testament and New Testament the term "Father" when used for God is a metaphor. It is not a proper name for God, but just one of many titles by which Jews and Christians speak of and to God.
In Christian theology, fatherhood of God is seen in a more substantive sense, centered around metaphysical rather than metaphorical interpretations of various questions about relations between the Father and the Son. Christian sense of participation in the eternal relationship of Father and Son, through Jesus Christ, is symbolically represented by the notion that Christians are adopted children of God:
Subordinationism is a Trinitarian doctrine wherein the Son (and sometimes also the Holy Spirit) is subordinate to the Father, not only in submission and role, but with actual ontological subordination to varying degrees.[1] It posits a hierarchical ranking of the persons of the Trinity, implying ontological subordination of the persons of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Ontological Christology analyzes the nature or being[web 5] of Jesus Christ. "Functional Christology" analyzes the works of Jesus Christ, while "soteriological Christology" analyzes the "salvific" standpoints of Christology.
Historically in the Alexandrian school of thought (fashioned on the Gospel of John), Jesus Christ is the eternal Logos who already possesses unity with the Father before the act of Incarnation.[49] In contrast, the Antiochian school viewed Christ as a single, unified human person apart from his relationship to the divine.
The title Kyrios for Jesus is central to the development of New Testament Christology.[53] In the Septuagint it translates the Tetragrammaton, the holy Name of God. As such, it closely links Jesus with God – in the same way a verse such as Matthew 28:19, "The Name (singular) of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit".[54]
Kyrios is also conjectured to be the Greek translation of Aramaic Mari, which in everyday Aramaic usage was a very respectful form of polite address, which means more than just 'teacher' and was somewhat similar to 'rabbi'. While the term Mari expressed the relationship between Jesus and his disciples during his life, the Greek Kyrios came to represent his lordship over the world.[55]
The threefold office (Latin munus triplex) of Jesus Christ is a Christian doctrine based upon the teachings of the Old Testament. It was described by Eusebius and more fully developed by John Calvin. It states that Jesus Christ performed three functions (or "offices") in his earthly ministry – those of prophet, priest, and king. In the Old Testament, the appointment of someone to any of these three positions could be indicated by anointing him or her by pouring oil over the head. Thus, the term messiah, meaning "anointed one", is associated with the concept of the threefold office. While the office of king is that most frequently associated with the Messiah, the role of Jesus as priest is also prominent in the New Testament, being most fully explained in chapters 7 to 10 of the Book of Hebrews.
In Christianity, Christology (from the Greek Χριστός, Khristós and -λογία, -logia), translated from Greek as 'the study of Christ', is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus. Different denominations have different opinions on questions such as whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah what his role would be in the freeing of the Jewish people from foreign rulers or in the prophesied Kingdom of God, and in the salvation from what would otherwise be the consequences of sin.
The earliest Christian writings gave several titles to Jesus, such as Son of Man, Son of God, Messiah, and Kyrios, which were all derived from Hebrew scripture.[web 1] These terms centered around two opposing themes, namely "Jesus as a preexistent figure who becomes human and then returns to God", versus adoptionism – that Jesus was human who was "adopted" by God at his baptism, crucifixion, or resurrection.
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