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Adoptionism

What if Jesus became God's Son rather than always being so

Adoptionism taught that Jesus was a human being whom God adopted as his Son, perhaps at his baptism, rather than being eternally divine. It is associated with Theodotus of Byzantium and a later Spanish form, and is classed as a type of dynamic monarchianism. The major Christian traditions condemned it, insisting instead that the Son shares the Father's eternal divinity rather than acquiring sonship at a point in time.

How it traveled

  1. Malchion.
    · 220
    challenges
  2. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  3. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    challenges
  4. The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies
    Lérins · 445
    challenges
  5. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
    challenges

Key passages(20)

Apology. · Apologetic

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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin

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Exposition of the Christian Faith · Ambrose of Milan

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A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed · Rufinus of Aquileia

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Against Heresies: Book III · Irenaeus of Lyons

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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin

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The Dialogue Against the Luciferians · Jerome

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