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Adoptionism, in a broad sense, a christological theory according to which Christ, as man, is the adoptive Son of God; the precise import of the word varies with the successive stages and exponents of the theory. ... Adoptionism of Elipandus and Felix in the eighth century...
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www.newadvent.org/cathen/01150a.htm
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Adoptionism ; Other spelling: Adoptianism ... Adoptionism defined God to be a single unity, while Jesus Christ was of divine nature only temporarily, for the period his mission lasted. Jesus as a human being possessed by a spiritual entity. This possession, or spiritual adoption, happened either at the time of Jesus' baptism...
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i-cias.com/e.o/adoptionism.htm
i-cias.com/e.o/adoptionism.htm
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Adoptionism is an error concerning Christ that first appeared in the second century. Those who held it denied the preexistence of Christ and, therefore, His deity. ... Adoptionism was later revived in the 8th Century in Spain by Elipandus, archbishop of Toledo, and Felix, bishop of Urgel. This was a variation of the...
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www.carm.org/adoptionism
www.carm.org/adoptionism
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Several articles on Adoptionism. A source of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. ... Put most simply, adoptionism is the theory that Jesus was in nature a man who became God by adoption.
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mb-soft.com/believe/text/adoption.htm
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Adoptionism is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely human and that he became divine—adopted as God's son—later in his life. By these accounts, Jesus earned the title Christ through his sinless devotion to the will of God, rather than be his pre-existent status as the eternally begotten Son of God.
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www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Adoptionism
www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Adoptionism
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Encyclopedia article about adoptionism. Information about adoptionism in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... The Theodotians taught that Jesus was a man, who became the Christ only after his baptism (a concept basic both to monarchianism and to adoptionism ). .....
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encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/adoptionism
encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/adoptionism
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Though the term Adoptionism has been applied to earlier divergent theologies, such as that of Theodotus in the second century, the Hispanic controversy of the same name is an unrelated development.
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medspains.stanford.edu/demo/themes/adoptionism/index.ht...
medspains.stanford.edu/demo/themes/adoptionism/index.html
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(1) Adoptionism of Elipandus and Felix in the Eighth Century ... (2) New-Adoptionism of Abelard in the Twelfth Century ... Adoptionism, in a broad sense, a christological theory according to which Christ, as man, is the adoptive Son of God; the precise import of the word varies with the successive stages and exponents of...
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www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/a/adoptionism.html
www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/a/adoptionism.html
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Indeed if adoptionism was the earliest view of Jesus, this high Christology would not be prevalent at all or attested in the earliest texts of the NT. Adoptionist Christology would not necessarily be deemed incommensurate with Judaism nor provoke the Jewish sensibilities about monotheism.
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www.biblicaltheology.com/Research/CostaT01.pdf
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