Christocentricity, not Christomonism

May 14, 2023•58 words

Christocentricity is indeed vital in the preaching of the Word of God; but Christocentricity must not be permitted to degenerate into Christomonism. The Christocentric does not and must not exclude the exemplary; the indicatives of history do not and must not exclude the imperatives of ethics.

—John Carrick, 'The Imperative of Preaching: A Theology of Sacred Rhetoric', 130

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