Theological Term of the Week: Adoptionism
Thursday, November 25, 2021 at 8:25AM
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adoptionism
A heresy “which held that although Jesus was essentially nondivine, he was adopted by the Father—perhaps at his baptism or even at his birth.”1 Also called dynamic monarchianism.

 

Learn more:

  1. GotQuestions: What is adoptionism?
  2. Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry: Adoptionism
  3. Ligonier Ministries: Early Christian Heresies
  4. Coleman Ford: Christological Controversies in the Early Church
  5. Tony Costa: Was Adoptionism the Earliest Christology?

 

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Filed under Defective Theology and Trinity

1The Christian Faith by Michael Horton, page 471.


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