A major feature of Anabaptist Christology was the weight placed on the function of Jesus as model and example. That involved an emphasis on his human life with his actions and words as described in the Gospels. But it did not lead to a denial or even an underemphasis on the divine nature of Jesus. With a few exceptions (Italian Anabaptism, for example, which, after 1550, was unitarian), it was strongly asserted that, in order to be the Saviour, Jesus had to be divine, a member of the Trinity (see