ADOPTIONISM

Christian heresy taught in Spain after 782 by Elipandus, archbishop of Toledo, and Felix, bishop of Urgel (Seo de Urgel). They held that Jesus at the time of his birth was purely human and only became the divine Son of God by adoption when he was baptized. Variations of this doctrine had been held as early as the 3d cent. by the Theodotians, Paul of Samosata, and by the Nestorians. It reappeared in the neo-adoptionist heresy among the followers of Peter Abelard. Elipandus and Felix were condemned at Frankfurt (794). The vigorous refutation of Alcuin had much to do with the sect's disappearance in the early 9th cent. See also monarchianism.

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Encyclopedia of Christian Theology - Vol. 1
Includes: A-F
Book by Jean-Yves Lacoste; Routledge, 2005
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...Christianity of the ebionitic form, adoptionism is perhaps to be associated with a particularly...against the faith of Christians for adoptionism to have had a profound impact on the...Dogmas I, Paris, 1994). The Spanish adoptionism of the end of the eighth century is...
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A Short History of the Early Church
Book by Harry R. Boer; Eerdmans, 1976
Subjects: Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600
...Adoptionists. The western church did not accept Adoptionism because it could not believe that sal- vation...man may have been. In the East, however, Adoptionism continued for many years. Adoptionism is also called Dynamic Monarchianism, because...
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A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament
Book by Samuel Sandmel; Hebrew Union College Press, 1956
Subjects: Bible--N.T--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Christianity And Other Religions--Judaism, Judaism--Relations--Christianity
...baptism a view which was known as "adoptionism" and which, in the eighth century...the convert, and the disadvantage in adoptionism lay in the implied reduction of the...Messiahship should rest on something more than adoptionism and on something anterior to his baptism...
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The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987
Book by Rosamond McKitterick; Longman, 1983
Subjects: Carolingians, France--History--To 987, Franks--History
...Among these were the questions concerning Adoptionism and iconoclasm. The heresy of Adoptionism was dealt with at Regensburg in 792 and...Frankfurt and made a public declaration on both Adoptionism and iconoclasm. Their official response...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Book by J. J. Herzog, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson; Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1908
...the most prominent representative of Adoptionism, Felix, bishop of Urgel in the Pyrenees...Italy-- which agreed in condemning Adoptionism. Charlemagne sent these, with one...Eutychianism. In fact, the assailants of Adoptionism, starting from their thesis that Christ...
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State Courts Adopting Federal Constitutional Doctrine: Case-by-Case Adoptionism or Prospective Lockstepping?
Journal article by Robert F. Williams; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 46, 2005
Subjects: Constitutional interpretation--Influence, Constitutional law--Influence, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Prospective overruling--Laws, regulations and rules, State courts--Management
...Constitutional Doctrine: Case-by-Case Adoptionism or Prospective Lockstepping...bench and bar. 1. Unreflective Adoptionism The first approach may be referred...Latzers terms: "unreflective adoptionism." (28) He stated that "it...
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Irenaeus and the Baptism of Jesus
Journal article by Daniel A. Smith; Theological Studies, Vol. 58, 1997
Subjects: Baptism--Philosophy, Irenaeus--Philosophy, Jesus Christ--Divinity
...terminology. Wickham argues that "adoptionism" is a historians construct, a collection...God from the moment of conception, adoptionism in this context cannot be understood...refers to the eighth-century Spanish adoptionism of Elipandus and Felix of Urgel...
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The Common and the Ordained Priesthood
Journal article by David Coffey; Theological Studies, Vol. 58, 1997
Subjects: Ordination--Philosophy, Priesthood--Philosophy, Vatican Council II (Book)--Philosophy
...first century, can escape the charge of adoptionism when propounded seriously in the 20th...proper object of the Fathers love. Adoptionism is ruled out because there are not three...presumably, is twofold: first, the fear of adoptionism; and secondly, an inability to square...
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Current Trends in Anglican Christology
Journal article by John Macquarrie; Anglican Theological Review, Vol. 79, 1997
Subjects: Anglican churches, Differences, Theology, Theory
...this whole movement is a resurgence of adoptionism. I have myself been accused of adoptionism, but I think the charge can be answered...make a decisive difference between Pauls adoptionism or indeed any consciously constructed adoptionism...
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Jesus' Baptism in the Jordan
Journal article by Kilian Mcdonnell; Theological Studies, Vol. 56, 1995
Subjects: Baptism--Analysis, Bible. N.T. Gospels (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jesus Christ--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Christological controversies. Because of adoptionism, which held that Jesus received his...This protest is a protection against adoptionism. The Arians also use Jesus baptism...one, again a polemical note against adoptionism.(38) The Spirit came "to indicate...
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The Lively God of Robert Jenson
Magazine article by David B. Hart; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October 2005
Subjects: Jenson, Robert--Evaluation, Theologians--Evaluation
...out to be either some version of one of the heresies rejected by the councils of the ancient Church--"tritheism," "adoptionism," "modalism," even "Arianism"--or a bland ethical Unitarianism bound only tenuously to the historical career of...


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encyclopedia articles on: Adoptionism  - 8 results

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Adoptionism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ADOPTIONISM Christian heresy taught in Spain after 782 by Elipandus, archbishop of Toledo, and Felix, bishop of Urgel (Seo de Urgel...
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Alcuin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...He wrote verse, and his letters were preserved. Alcuins treatise against Felix of Urgel did much to defeat the heresy of adoptionism . He died as head of the abbey of St. Martin of Tours, where he had one of his most famous schools. See studies by E...
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Paul of Samosata
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...been his pupil and his influence on Nestorius was considerable, but his connection with the Paulicians is disputed. See adoptionism . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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Theodotians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...taught that Jesus was a man, who became the Christ only after his baptism (a concept basic both to monarchianism and to adoptionism ). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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Charlemagne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bishops and he acted as arbiter in theological disputes by summoning councils, notably that at Frankfurt (794), where adoptionism was rejected and some of the decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea (see Nicaea, Second Council of ) were condemned...
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