Was Christ a Narcissist Or Not? Christianity v. Psychology

REFLECTIONS FOR THE SOUL

Using Christ as the epitome of the martyr, some have attempted to define the Christian martyr as a first-class egotistical, fanatical narcissist for whom nothing else counts except the unbrokenness – the unfragmented purity and integrity, if you will – of the self-image. This attitude and disposition was termed “extraordinary.” The Christian martyr was also defined as starving of all natural desire, to attain this unattainable fantasy-based goal.

In the attempt, however, to explain the martyrdom of Christ’s human nature from within such a weak – starving – purported viewpoint of psychology, these writers failed, intentionally or otherwise, to consider five basic facts (four of them spiritual) that cannot be reduced to mere psychologizations. These facts are that

1. Christ was the only-begotten Son of God (the Father);
2. The difference between image and likeness in the nature of mankind;
3. The ontology of the extraordinary;
4. The natural desires experienced by Christ the Man; and
5. The real reason He died on the…

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