Definitions
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 theTrinity .
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Examples
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Part of their Christology was "adoptionism" -- they thought Jesus was adopted as the unique son of God at some time later in life.
Valerie Tarico: Ancient Mythic Origins of the Christmas Story 2009
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Yet, presumably because of a desire to avoid "adoptionism", this manner in which identity might be shared with someone who did not previously possess it remains largely unexplored.
Review of Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel James F. McGrath 2009
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But Bauckham certainly doesn't want to understand Christology in terms of adoption, much less adoptionism.
Archive 2009-07-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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But Bauckham certainly doesn't want to understand Christology in terms of adoption, much less adoptionism.
Five Primary Sources That SHOULD Influence Richard Bauckham James F. McGrath 2009
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Does your "permanence" remark indicate a form of prenatal adoptionism or ensoulment, as you seem to prefer?
Jesus the Mystic in the Gospel of John James F. McGrath 2009
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The earlier one is a form of adoptionism, in which Jesus was born human of natural parents, but later elevated by God to a subordinate divine status.
Philocrites: Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news. 2007
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Roughly, we have (1) the adoptionism of Elipandus and Felix in the eighth century; (2) the Neo-Adoptionism of Abelard in the twelfth century; (3) the qualified Adoptionism of some theologians from the fourteenth century on.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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That sounds like Osteenesque self-help seasoned with a wee sprinkling of adoptionism.
The Thinklings 2009
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