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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...
- Theodotus the Fuller; flourished late 2nd century[citation needed]) was an Adoptionist theologian from Byzantium, one of several named Theodotus whose writings...
- 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...
- citizen, born in the capital of the Roman Empire. Combated against the adoptionist heresies of the followers of Theodotus of Byzantium who were ruled by...
- opposed by Beatus of Liebana, and in the Carolingian territories, the Adoptionist position was condemned by Pope Hadrian I, Alcuin of York, Agobard, and...
- as the Adoptionists. The identification with nontrinitarianism sometimes led the Paulicians to be labeled as Arians by critics and Adoptionists by scholars...
- Coptic Orthodox Church 248~264 Paul of Samosata, bishop of Antioch, adoptionist, condemned at 269 Council of Antioch Athanasius of Alexandria, c. 297~373...
- The chief concerns of the council were the Frankish response to the Adoptionist movement in Spain and the Second Council of Nicaea (787), which had been...
- baptism. In 269, the Synods of Antioch condemned Paul of Samosata for his Adoptionist theology, and also condemned the term homoousios (ὁμοούσιος, "of the...
- a relatively short time. Jewish Christians like the Ebionites had an Adoptionist Christology and regarded Jesus as the Messiah while rejecting his divinity...