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Adoptionism [Catholic Encyclopedia]
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Title Adoptionism [Catholic Encyclopedia]
Url http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01150a.htm
Description The theory that the man Jesus at some point in time became the Son of God only by adoption. Strictly speaking, refers to an eighth-century Spanish heresy, but the term is also used to cover similar beliefs.
Category Churches > Church_History > Ancient_Heterodoxies
Date May 20, 2001
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The so-called Dynamic Monarchians were actually a form of adoptionism. Monarchianism, properly speaking, refers to the Modalists. Denial of the Trinity, assertion that there is only one Divine Person, who appears in three different roles. Noetians and Sabellians were two schools of Modalism.
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