adoptionist

Speech parts

1. adoptionist - Noun

2. adoptionist - Adjective

Meaning

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

Despite the shared name of "Adoptionism" the Spanish Adoptionist Christology appears to have differed sharply from the Adoptionism of early Christianity. Source: Internet

In 791, Felix appealed to Charlemagne in defense of the Spanish Adoptionist teaching, sending him a tract outlining it. Source: Internet

In 269, the Synods of Antioch condemned Paul of Samosata for his Adoptionist theology, and also condemned the term homoousios (ὁμοούσιος, "of the same being") in the sense he used it. Source: Internet

Today I have begotten you"; the latter phrase that may show Adoptionist tendencies. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

adoption of decisions adoptional adoptionism adoptionistic adoptious adoptive