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Prepared by:

Richard G. Pazcoguin

UST Institute of Religion

“Whatever you ask in my name, I will do, sothat the Father may be glorified in the Son.If you ask anything of me in my name, I willdo it.” John 14:13-14



Every name is a symbol. More than being a

title by which someone is recognized, a

name is a representation of its bearer. To

praise a name is to praise the person who

bears it.

We even go to the extent of equating name

with reputation or honor. To preserve one’shonor is to preserve one’s good name.

When our Lord became man, he needed to

be called by a name:

“…and you shall name him J ESUS.”

Luke 1:31



The name given to Our Lord was “YESHUA”.

This was a late version of the Hebrew name Joshua

or Yehoshua.

“She is to have a son and you are to name him

J esus because he will save his people from theirsins.” Matthew 1:11

The name Yeshua means “Yahweh saves” or “Yahweh is Salvation”.

This name was common during our Lord’s time, but

when it became definite that Christianity was a

separate religion from Judaism, the Jews stopped

calling their children with this name.



JESUS OF NAZARETH

(Jn.18:5)

JESUS THE CARPENTER

(Mk.6:3)

JESUS BAR/BEN JOSEPH

JESUS SON OF MARY

(Luke 4:22; Mk.6:3)



The Greek word “Christos” means

“messiah” (Hb. “masiah”) or

“anointed one”. This title was given

to Jesus by the early Church as a

profession of what they believed

about him – He was the one whom

God has anointed to bring peace and

justice to the world by establishing

Kingdom of God.



The description of the Suffering Servant is found

in the Book of Isaiah. The Suffering Servant is

the innocent victim whose unconditional

obedience pleased God and whose suffering

became the source of healing for wounded

humanity.

The early church, after witnessing Christ’s brutal

execution and his glorious resurrection from the

dead, realized that the suffering servant and the

messianic king that they were expecting were

one and the same person.



The Jews believed that the name of God

was too holy to be pronounced by the

human tongue. In their scriptures, they

read God’s name (YHWH) as “Adonai” –

Lord. Therefore, in the religious context,

the title Lord belongs to God.

Calling Jesus “Lord” is an affirmation of

his Divinity.



Looking into Daniel’s prophecy about

the coming of the Son of Man (Dan 7:13-

14), the Son of Man is the person who

will establish God’s kingdom at the end

of time.

Jesus is called by this title to emphasize

his role as savior and ruler of the world.



In the Old Testament, the title “son of God” was used to designate the king

or the angels.

Jesus, however, is THE SON OF GOD.

He is the unique Son of the Father for

he partakes of the Father’s Divinenature.



A word is a representation of one’s thoughts and of

one’s self. When a word is spoken, the one whospeaks gives himself to the listener.

God communicates to us through words. For

example, creation is a word of God. We learn about

God by looking into the Created world.

Jesus is THE WORD. He is the totality of God’s self -

communication.

WORD OF GOD=REVELATION

JESUS IS THE FULLNESS OF GOD’S REVELATION



The Messianic King, whose coming wasawaited by the Jews, must be from the

Davidic line.

Jesus Christ was from the tribe of Judah,

the tribe of King David. Jesus was born in

Bethlehem, King David’s hometown.Joseph, the foster father of Jesus was a

descendant of David.

Jesus was called “Son of David” as an

affirmation that he indeed was the awaited

Messiah.



The priest is the person who offers the

sacrificial sin-offering on behalf of God’s

people. Jesus Christ, by offering himself as

a sacrifice for our sins, once and for all

reconciled humanity with God.

As priest, Christ is THE MEDIATOR between

God and humanity.



A lamb is a sacrificial animal.

Jesus is THE LAMB OF GOD

because like a lamb, Christ was

“slaughtered” for the forgiveness

of sins. His blood washed awaythis sins of the world.



These are the first and last letters of the

Greek alphabet.

Jesus is the beginning and the end of human

history in whom we can find the meaning of everything.



The Greek word for fish (IXΘY∑) served

as an anagram for a primitive Christian

Creed.

I – Iesous

X- ChristosΘ-Theou

Y- Uios

∑-Soter



This symbol is the monogram of the

name CHRIST

The Chi and the Rho are the first two

letters of the Greek name for Christ:



This symbol is a monogram of the name JESUS.

• It is from the first two letters and the last letter

of the Greek name of Jesus : IHSOYS

• It is from the letters of the Latin name for Jesus:

IHESUS



The first Christians were not comfortable with

representing Christ with a cross. This was because

crucifixion was still being practiced as a method of

capital punishment in the Roman Empire. The cross

was a symbol of shame. Some of the early Christians

represented the cross with an anchor.

When Emperor Constantine won the Battle of the

Milvian Bridge, he attributed his victory to the Sign of

the Cross. As he permitted Christianity to surface

and flourish, the cross consequently became a sign

of Christ’s victory rather than of shame.



In Greek, IC is the first

syllable of Jesus. InLatin, I and C are the

first letters of Jesus

Christ

In Greek, XC is the

first syllable of Christ.

It is by the IC and XC

that our Lord is

identified in the icons of

the Eastern Churches



CHRIST BECAME OBEDIENT FOR US

EVEN TO DEATH, DEATH ON THE CROSS.

BECAUSE OF THIS, GOD RAISED HIM ON HIGH

AND GAVE HIM A NAME

ABOVE ALL OTHER NAMESSO THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS

EVERY KNEE MUST BEND

IN THE HEAVENS, ON THE EARTH,

AND UNDER THE EARTH,

AND EVERY TONGUE PROCLAIM

TO THE GLORY OF THE FATHER:JESUS IS LORD!

Phil 2:8-11



James Finley and Michael Pennock

JESUS AND YOU: DISCOVERING THE REAL CHRIST Ind: Ave Maria Press, 1977

Joseph Fitzmayer

A CHRISTOLOGICAL CATECHISM: NEW TESTAMENT ANSWERS

NJ: Paulist Press, 1991

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