Adoptionism

Some writers, mainly Protestant, have tried to erase from Adoptionism all stain of the Nestorian heresy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

It is, however, noteworthy that Adoptionism began in that part of Spain where Islamism dominated, and where a Nestorian colony had for years found refuge.

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Adoptionism, in a broad sense, a christological theory according to which Christ, as man, is the adoptive Son of God; the precise import of the word varies with the successive stages and exponents of the theory.

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Abelard's new-Adoptionism was condemned, at least in its fundamental principles, by Alexander III, in a rescript dated 1177:

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The refutation of this new form of Adoptionism, as it rests altogether on the interpretation of the hypostatical union, will be found in the treatment of that word.

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Christological question, an attitude whose heterodoxy was shrouded perhaps even from their own eyes in the beginning, by the specious distinction between natural and adoptive sonship; and it was a worthy tribute to the range of his patristic scholarship when Felix, the chief intellectual defender of Adoptionism, after the disputation with Alcuin at Aachen, acknowledged the error of his position.

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He opposed most vigorously, by synods and writings, the nascent heresy of Adoptionism (q.v.), one of the few

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Roughly, we have (1) the adoptionism of Elipandus and Felix in the eighth century; (2) the Neo-Adoptionism of Abelard in the twelfth century; (3) the qualified Adoptionism of some theologians from the fourteenth century on.

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Elipandus's obstinacy and Felix's versatility were but the partial cause of the temporary success of Adoptionism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The official condemnation of Adoptionism is to be found (1) in Pope

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913