Definition (house style)
Christology is the theological discipline concerned with the person and work of Jesus Christ: his nature (divine and human), his origin, his redemptive-historical function, and his future role as the completer of God’s restoration plan. On apokatastasis.wiki, christology is understood in connection with the question of universal reconciliation: who Christ is determines what his redemptive work can encompass and ultimately achieve.
The term christology functions on this wiki as a discipline name and orienting concept, parallel to soteriology, eschatology, and pneumatology. All featured authors work from a christological foundation, but with strongly divergent emphases: juridical-typological (Jones), revelatory (Warnock), numerical-typological (Bullinger), kenotic-processual (Noordzij), and pneumatological-participatory (Nee/Lee).
Usage per author
Jones
Jones’ christology is primarily juridical and typological: Christ had to be truly human to qualify as go’el (kinsman-redeemer) for humanity under the law, and the two comings correspond to the two heir-sons Judah (sceptre, first coming) and Joseph (birthright, second coming).
Warnock
Warnock reads Christ’s incarnation as the ontological self-revelation of who God truly is: the Almighty who always works through weakness and humiliation. His christology issues in an identificatio cum Christo spirituality — union, not mere imitation.
Bullinger
Bullinger develops his christology through numerical patterns: the 28-fold arnion title (Rev.), the sevenfold Melchizedek formula (Heb.), and the tol’doth structure of Matthew 1 as the closing of the biblical genealogy series with Christ as the Last Adam.
Noordzij
Noordzij works with a typological christology through Moses as the foreshadowing of Christ, emphasising kenosis as an ongoing process and reading the baptism of Jesus (Luke 3:21-22) as his anointing to the threefold office (prophetic, priestly, royal).
Nee/Lee
Lee structures christology around seven redemptive-historical elements (divine nature, incarnation, human life, death, resurrection, ascension, enthronement) that are now all present in the “all-inclusive Spirit” dwelling in believers.