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adoptionism

(əˈdɒpʃənɪzəm)
n
an early Greek theology that Jesus was a man gifted with divine powersthe later belief (from the 8th century) that Jesus was only the adopted, not true, son of God
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adoptionism

the 8th-century heretical doctrine that Christ in His human nature was the son of God only by adoption; that in His spiritual nature, however, He was truly God’s son. Also adoptianism. — adoptionist, n., adj.
See also: Christ
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Adoptionists (note Theodotus) believed the human Jesus became a divine person at baptism, or even more likely after the resurrection.
Strange as it may seem to some readers, the rather structured Roukema approved both the adoptionist and the catholic Christology.
Orbe notes that the Spanish adoptionists nowhere refer to Irenaeus (ibid.
Irenaeus and the baptism of Jesus
Alcuin reminds Fredegisus of his duty to teach, because `according to apostolic prophecy, there has been no lack of men to contradict this faith in former times and we have experienced the same now in our own times'.(29) The heretics of Alcuin's day were certainly the Adoptionists. Yet another letter written to monks in Britain and Ireland repeats the same message that learning and teaching are urgent tasks in a Church threatened by heresy.
The "mystery of the incarnation" and Wisdom's house (Prov. 9:1) in Alcuin's 'Disputatio de vera philosophia.'
Second, this theological link is indicative of an historical link of the Spanish adoptionists with Eastern thought, so that the eighth-century adoptionist crisis in the West was simply a repeat of the earlier controversy in the East.
The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785-820
What is distinctive, however, is Grant's particular focus on Galen, an obvious favourite of his, and his demonstration of the importance of Galen's literary-critical methods and logic and their direct influence on Christians, particularly the Adoptionists of Rome.
Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature

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