THEODOTIANS

small heretical sect, formed c.190 by Theodotus, a Byzantine. It lasted until the end of the 4th cent. The Theodotians taught that Jesus was a man, who became the Christ only after his baptism (a concept basic both to monarchianism and to adoptionism).

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History of Dogma - Vol. 2 & 3
Book by Adolf Harnack, Neil Buchanan; Dover Publications, 1961
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal--History
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A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: Second Series - Vol. 1
Book by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace; Christian Literature Co., 1890
Subjects: Christian Literature, Early
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Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Book by Bart D. Ehrman; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Apocryphal Books (New Testament)--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600, Heresies, Christian--History--Early Church, Ca. 30-600
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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 - Vol. 7
Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson, George William Gilmore; Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
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History of Dogma - Vol. 4 & 5
Book by Adolph Harnack, Neil Buchanan; Dover Publications, 1961
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal--History
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Theodotians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THEODOTIANS small heretical sect, formed c.190 by Theodotus, a Byzantine. It lasted until the end of the 4th cent. The Theodotians taught that Jesus was a man, who became the Christ only after his baptism (a concept basic both to monarchianism...
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Monarchianism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Father and Jesus are one person, was developed in two forms in early Christianity. Dynamistic monarchians, such as the Theodotians and Paul of Samosata , held that Jesus was born a man and received the Christ as a power from God at a later time (see...
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Novatian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with that of Donatism . Novatians chief work, On the Trinity, which was written as a refutation of the Gnostics, the Theodotians, and the Sabellians, was later regarded as an orthodox expression of ante-Nicene doctrine, except for the last chapter, which...
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Adoptionism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...


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