Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- 神の子
- Transliteration
- Kami no Ko
- Rejected alternatives
- 現人神, 神の化身
Son Of God
CRITICAL: NEVER use 現人神 (arahitogami, ‘a god in human form,’ the pre-1946 State Shinto doctrine that the Emperor was a living, incarnate divine being descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu — a doctrine Emperor Hirohito formally renounced in his 1946 Ningen-sengen, ‘Declaration of Humanity’). Christ’s Sonship is eternal, unique, and not a semi-divine imperial-lineage office. NEVER use 神の化身 (an avatar-style manifestation).