The UUA holds no binding Christology. Among those UUA members who engage with Christianity at all, Jesus is most commonly understood as an exceptional human moral teacher, prophet, and example — not as the divine Son of God in the orthodox Trinitarian sense. The UUA's Unitarian heritage explicitly rejected the divinity of Christ, regarding him as a supremely good human being whose teaching and example are worthy of emulation.

Contemporary UUism encompasses a wide range of views on Jesus: some UU Christians hold fairly high Christological views (regarding Jesus as uniquely spiritual or as the son of God in some sense); others regard him as one great teacher among many (alongside the Buddha, Mohammed, and other religious figures); and many UU humanists do not engage with Jesus specifically as a religious figure of personal significance. The UUA includes congregations and fellowships organized specifically around UU Christianity, but these are a minority within the broader movement.

The UUA's non-creedal character means that no doctrinal claim about Jesus is required or excluded from UU membership. What matters is not what one believes about Jesus but how one lives — according to the Seven Principles of the inherent worth of all, justice, equity, compassion, and the search for truth.