α. 1800s– Adoptionism.
β. 1800s– Adoptianism.
Adoptionismn.
/əˈdɒpʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /əˈdɒpʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /əˈdɑpʃəˌnɪzəm/ Christian Church (chiefly historical).
A Christological theory which states that Jesus Christ is the son of God only by adoption, and is not coeternal with the Father. Also called dynamic monarchianism. Cf. Monarchianism n., Nestorianism n.Adoptionism has been proposed in various forms since at least the 2nd cent. a.d. (when it was condemned as heresy by Pope Victor I). The most prominent espousal of Adoptionism was in 8th-cent. Spain, by the followers of Elipandus, bishop of Cordoba, and Felix, bishop of Urgell.
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Adoptionism1833
1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. Contents p. ix Adoptionism.
1841 E. Cox tr. J. J. I. Döllinger Hist. Church III. iii. ii. 61 Charlemagne twice sent the archbishops Leidrad of Lyons, and Nefrid of Narbonne, and Benedict, abbot of Aniana, into the countries infected with Adoptionism.
1850 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church VI. 214 In his [sc. Felix of Urgell's] commentaries we find no trace of Adoptianism [Ger. Adoptianismus], but rather the contrary.
1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 8 By contemporaries Adoptionism was regarded as identical with..Nestorianism.
1910 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 14 270 The young Augustine was reared in a circle which was still Adoptionist... His piety continued to be the piety of Adoptionism.
1953 Catholic Hist. Rev. 39 130 Adoptionism, the doctrine that the human Christ may be called God only by accommodation, that He is not the unique, only-begotten, consubstantial Son of the Father.
2005 G. Childs Secrets Esoteric Christianity 16/1 Another kind of Adoptionism concerns those who believe that Jesus of Nazareth was purely human until his baptism in the River Jordan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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