PS ( 18 ) Female Christ --different versions of this, the first I know about being All Lee in the late 18th century, the leader of the Shakers, but more recently including a smorgasbord of feminist concepts ( 19 ) Baha'i Jesus, the view that Christ was one of a line of "Manifestations of God," along with Moses, Zoroaster, Krishna, Buddha, etc. Theosophists have a similar view, and some Muslim groups, like the Ismailis and very similar also. ( 20 ) the black Jesus, three basic variations, Jesus as orthodox but descended from African family members --that is , a mestizo or mulatto Jesus-- another being James Cone's version, part of black liberation theology, and finally Jesus as conceived by some Christian sects in Africa ( 21 ) the non-Jesus of some Atheists / neo-Pagans, who view the story of Christ as simply a personification of a set of myths with Pagan origins that were assembled around --and attributed to-- a Jewish rebel of some kind but who was just that, nothing more. ( 22 ) the metaphysical Jesus of some theologians who regard such subjects as Christology, etc, as what really matters ( 23 ) Jesus the miracle worker, healer, and , in effect, a divine magician ( 24 ) Jesus as son of the Theotokos, Mary as equivalent to a Goddess, hence Christ not only as divine, but divinity understood in conjunction with Mary, all of this obviously associated with Eastern Orthodox tradition. ( 25 ) Jesus the sage, philosopher, etc, more or less a spiritual Socrates.
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