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Definition of Adoptionist

Adoptionist
Adoptionist A*dop"tion*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Meaning of Adoptionist from wikipedia

- of God at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension. How common adoptionist views were among early Christians is debated, but it appears to have...
- a relatively short time. Jewish Christians like the Ebionites had an Adoptionist Christology and regarded Jesus as the Messiah while rejecting his divinity...
- part of this diocese. Among its most notable events are Bishop Felix's adoptionist revolt, the coup of Bishop Esclua and the overthrowing of the bishop...
- opposed by Beatus of Liebana, and in the Carolingian territories, the Adoptionist position was condemned by Pope Hadrian I, Alcuin of York, Agobard, and...
- from adoptionism and may or may not be present in beliefs described as adoptionist. The group most closely ****ociated with denial of the virgin birth were...
- ancient Jewish thought. The second theme subsequently became the basis of "adoptionist Christology" (see adoptionism), which viewed Jesus' baptism as a crucial...
- Arianism. In 269, the Synods of Antioch condemned Paul of Samosata for his Adoptionist theology and also condemned the term homoousios (ὁμοούσιος, "of the same...
- Christologies, namely a "low" or adoptionist Christology, and a "high" or "incarnation Christology". The "low Christology" or "adoptionist Christology" is the belief...
- as the Adoptionists. The identification with nontrinitarianism sometimes led the Paulicians to be labeled as Arians by critics and Adoptionists by scholars...
- Eusebius, telling of a 3rd-century priest who accepted the bishopric of the Adoptionists, which was seen as a heretical group in Rome. Natalius soon repented...