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- noun Plural form of
adoptionist .
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Among the anti-adoptionists in the senate was a rural clergyman who, prompted by his conscience, or, as one account runs, by exhortation and the offer of a conveyance by an influential member of the adoption party, was, when Sunday came, absent upon his sacred work.
History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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His thesis is that proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons-for example, to oppose adoptionists like the Ebionites, who claimed that Christ was a man but not God, or docetists like Marcion, who claimed that he was God but not a man, or Gnostics like the
World religions, List of religions, Christian religion, history religion, mayan religion 2010
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The dominant biblical scholars in this period were people like Dennis Nineham, John Knox (not the Reformation figure, but a Presbyterian NT scholar), W. H. Lampe (advocate of "Spirit-Christology"), and, of course, J.A.T. Robinson, all of whom were adoptionists of various sorts.
Anglican Mainstream 2009
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