God-man (Christianity)
God-man refers to the incarnation and the hypostatic union of Christ, which are one of mainstream Christianity’s most widely accepted and revered christological doctrines.Origins
The first usage of the term God-man as a theological concept appears in the writing of the 3rd-century Church Father Origen.
The Council of Chalcedon, meeting in 451 AD, affirmed that Christ had two natures – human and divine – in hypostatic union.
Much is also written of the God-man by the medieval philosopher and theologian Anselm of Canterbury in his treatise on the atonement, Cur Deus Homo :
The term is used in Protestant documents such as the Westminster Larger Catechism, where it says that
The word is also found in religious poetry and essays of the Romantic era. An example can be found in the poetry of Goethe:
