Christós w świadomości Jezusa

Abstract

In Protestant theology there is a more and more often accepted opinion that Jesus did not call himself Christós. His apostles did not do it either during His lifetime. This title was used by Christians after the Resurrection on the basis of the idea of the king, and through retrojection it was ascribed to events from the history of Jesus. Soon afterwards this term became common in the primeval Christianity in the role of a proper name. However, it is impossible to adopt such a view. Neither Jesus nor His apostles were using that term during His lifetime in the political sense of the word, but they used it in a special sense in which christós bears a new meaning in relation to the Old Testament.