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Meaning of "adoptionist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADOPTIONIST

əˈdɒpʃənɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADOPTIONIST

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Adoptionist is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ADOPTIONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Adoptionism

Adoptionism, sometimes called dynamic monarchianism, is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was adopted as God's Son either at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension. According to Epiphanius's account of the Ebionites, the group believed that Jesus was chosen because of his sinless devotion to the will of God. Adoptionism was declared heresy at the end of the 2nd century and was rejected by the Synods of Antioch and the First Council of Nicaea, which defined the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and identified the man Jesus with the eternally begotten Son or Word of God. Some scholars see Adoptionist concepts in the Gospel of Mark and in the writings of the Apostle Paul. According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1:1, 5:7 and 15:39, the concept of the Virgin Birth of Jesus had not been developed or elucidated at the time of the writing of this early Christian text. By the time the Gospels of Luke and Matthew were written, Jesus is identified as being the Son of God from the time of birth. Finally, the Gospel of John portrays him as the pre-existent Word as existing "in the beginning".

Definition of adoptionist in the English dictionary

The definition of adoptionist in the dictionary is one who believes in adoptionism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADOPTIONIST

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADOPTIONIST

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ADOPTIONIST

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嗣子
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adopcionistas
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養子論信奉者
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Adoptist
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adoptionist
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Adoptionist
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adoptionist
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adopționistă
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADOPTIONIST»

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Messiah and the Throne: Jewish Merkabah Mysticism and Early ...
IV. The. Nature. of. Early. Enthronement. Christology. §. 10. Some. Problems. with . the. "Theocratic". Theory. of. Adoptionist. Christology. It is not so easy to define the nature of early Christology. One might suppose that, after analysing both the ...
Timo Eskola, 2001
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Challenges to New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Justify ...
In my opinion the expectation that the Messiah should come from the descendants of David does not favour the "adoptionist" view. The idea is more probable that God knows who his Messiah will be (from the descendants of David ) even ...
Peter Balla, 1997
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The Three-personed God: The Trinity as a Mystery of Salvation
This is the basis for an initial adoptionist Christol- ogy — though not in the later heretical sense of the term, because here it intends to say nothing of Jesus' nature. Paul writes of Jesus "proclaimed the Son of God in all his power through his ...
William J. Hill, 1982
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Defending Inerrancy: Affirming the Accuracy of Scripture for ...
Sparks's adoptionist analogy has serious flaws. Adoptionism is a false doctrine teaching that Jesus was only a man but was adopted by God because of his divine powers. This is said to have occurred when God declared from heaven, “ This is ...
Norman L. Geisler, Bill Roach, 2012
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The Christ Is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, And ...
95 Francis Watson in "Is ]ohn's Christology Adoptionist?” argues that adoptionist is indeed the appropriate label because the union between the Logos of God and lesus of Nazareth occurs at the baptism. Watson's primary evidence is 1 ]ohn 5; ...
Pamela E. Kinlaw, 2005
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The Catholic Tradition
Of it, Pelikan judges, "The claim that [The Shepherd] was adoptionist in its doctrine is difficult to prove or disprove, because of the confusing language of the book and because of the literary problems of determining its origin and composition.
Thomas Langan, 1998
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The key of truth
(lxxxviii) Coherence of Paulician Christology with baptismal usages and with rite of election. ——(lxxxix) The Key a monument of the Adoptionist Church, of which The Shep/1m! of Hermas is also a monument—(kc) The Christology of latter book  ...
F.C. Conybeare
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The Frankensteinization, Draculafiction and Lust Temptation ...
A second Theodotus, the Money Changer, continued the Adoptionist belief as well as a certain Aescelpedotus. It is alleged that much of the NT can be read in the Adoptionist sense, and very few verses are expressed in clear, explicit terms  ...
Jim K K Wong
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Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History ...
One can imagine that Burriel perceived parallels between the political context of the adoptionist controversy and the concerns ofhis own time, when the aspirations of the Spanish national church conflicted with the prerogatives claimed by ...
Susan Boynton, 2011
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Evangelism and the Openness of God: The Implications of ...
30 Just as the church was wise to reject an adoptionist Christology, so the church would do well to reject an “adoptionist missiology.” In fact, an adoptionist Christology leads to an “adoptionist missiology.” As the Nicene Creed states: “We  ...
Vaughn W. Baker, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADOPTIONIST»

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Rom 1:3-4 as a Non-Adoptionist Text with Christology of Incarnation …
Bates basically contests the idea that Rom 1:3-4 is a proto-creed with an adoptionist christology (contra e.g., Rudolf Bultmann, Robert Jewett, ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
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Pagans and Christians and Mark, Part I
Mark's theology is “Adoptionist”: he believed that Jesus was an ordinary human being who was adopted as a Son of God by that experience ... «Patheos, Apr 14»
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Book Notice: Craig Keener, Acts 3:1-14:28
Paul's speech in Pisidian Antioch does not not have an adoptionist christology because Jesus' sonship does not begin with his resurrection but ... «Patheos, Jan 14»
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Orthodoxy on Coffee
Affogato is Adoptionist, being merely topped with espresso. The Café Bombón is Sabellian, appearing at some points to be foam, at others ... «Patheos, Jan 14»
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Coffee Theology
Affogato is Adoptionist, being merely topped with espresso. The Café Bombón is Sabellian, appearing at some points to be foam, at others ... «Patheos, Jan 14»
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The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part IV
In Mark, the earliest of the canonicals, for example, the theology is “Adoptionist”: Jesus is adopted as the Son of God and becomes the Messiah ... «Patheos, May 13»
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On Jesus as a Gnostic
Mark's theology was Adoptionist. He believed that Jesus was an ordinary human being, with a human father and a human mother, who was ... «Patheos, Apr 13»
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Emperor of the West: Charlemagne, the father of Christian Europe
It was this imposition of unity over his empire and the formalising of language and religion - Charlemagne was severe on the adoptionist and ... «The National, Jun 11»
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What I learned profiling a 'blasphemous' Jesus scholar
The Ebonites Christians (an early sect of Christians) only had a copy of the Gospel of Matthew and the Torah, and they had an adoptionist view ... «CNN, Mar 11»
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Qasr Al Yahud - Epiphany Ceremony in the Jordan River
... we Christian believers in Him receive our re-birth in the Holy Spirit through Him! The writer is an "adoptionist" , one of the ancient heresies. «YouTube, Feb 11»
REFERENCE
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