ABSTRACT

For Chinese Christians the significance of knowing Christ as having a cosmic nature lies essentially in ascertaining two things: the universal extent of Christ's domain, concern and care, and the kind of love which we get a taste of in Jesus Christ as we read the Gospels being the first and supreme attribute of God and basic to the structure and dynamic of the universe, in the light of which we get an insight as to how things go in the world. God being love, more and more of us are seeing that the father figure is not necessarily the only or the best analogy for understanding him. The Cosmic Christ is a rich concept. It says something of Christ the meaning of which is quite beyond human understanding. It is a notion that has come to Christians who are no longer satisfied with the classical two-nature debate and want to make a shift.