Editing Christology (section)

==Western medieval Christology==
The [[Franciscan]] piety of the 12th and 13th centuries led to "popular Christology". Systematic approaches by theologians, such as [[Thomas Aquinas]], are called "scholastic Christology".<ref name="mini7">{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Mini S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=christology+franciscan&pg=PA74 |title=Christology: Biblical And Historical |date=2005-01-01 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-8324-007-9 |pages=74–76 |language=en |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214060058/https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=christology+franciscan&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q=christology%20franciscan&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the [[Christianity in the 13th century|13th century]], [[Thomas Aquinas]] provided the first systematic Christology that consistently resolved a number of the existing issues.<ref name="GilsonC">{{Citation|last= Gilson|first= Etienne|title= The Christian Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas|year= 1994|publisher= University of Notre Dame Press|location= Notre Dame, IN|isbn= 978-0-268-00801-7|page= 502}}</ref> In his Christology from above, Aquinas also championed the [[Perfection of Christ|principle of perfection of Christ]]'s human attributes.<ref name="mini76">{{Cite book |last=Johnson |first=Mini S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA75 |title=Christology: Biblical And Historical |date=2005-01-01 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-8324-007-9 |pages=76–79 |language=en |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214060058/https://books.google.com/books?id=Aa3yRbs0tisC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=Christology%20aquinas&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|O'Collins|2009|p=208–12}}<ref name="Geest">{{Cite book |last=Goris |first=Harm J. M. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Svfrp2LSlkEC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA27 |title=Aquinas as Authority: A Collection of Studies Presented at the Second Conference of the Thomas Insituut Te Utrecht, December 14-16, 2000 |date=2002 |publisher=Peeters Publishers |isbn=978-90-429-1074-4 |pages=25–35 |language=en |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214060058/https://books.google.com/books?id=Svfrp2LSlkEC&dq=Christology+aquinas&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q=Christology%20aquinas&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Middle Ages]] also witnessed the emergence of the "tender image of Jesus" as a friend and a living source of love and comfort, rather than just the ''Kyrios'' image.<ref name=Astley >''Christology: Key Readings in Christian Thought'' by Jeff Astley, David Brown, [[Ann Loades]] 2009 {{ISBN|0-664-23269-8}} p. 106</ref>