God-man (Christianity)

God-man is a term which refers to the incarnation and the hypostatic union of Christ, which are two 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:

Posterity

The term is also used by the medieval philosopher and theologian Anselm of Canterbury in his treatise on the atonement, Cur Deus Homo.
The term is used in the Westminster Larger Catechism, where it says: