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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In theology, the doctrine that Christ is the Son of God by adoption only.

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  • noun Christianity A form of Christianity which maintains that Jesus is divine only in the sense that God the Father adopted him, either at Jesus' birth, or at his death, as opposed to the orthodox understanding of the nature of the Trinity.

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