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adoptionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
adoptionism Christian heresy taught in Spain after 782 by Elipandus, archbishop of Toledo, and Felix, bishop of Urgel (Seo de Urgel...
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Theodotians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Theodotians small heretical sect, formed c.190 by Theodotus, a Byzantine. It lasted until the end of the 4th cent. The Theodotians taught that Jesus was a man, who became the Christ only after his baptism (a concept basic both to monarchianism and to adoptionism ).
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Paulicians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...seem to show some gnostic influence, possibly that of Marcion or Paul of Samosata , and many of the adherents leaned toward adoptionism . The sect especially valued the Gospel of Luke and the Pauline Epistles. They rejected the sacraments but nevertheless...
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Cathari
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sacrament that was a laying on of hands. The Catharist concept of Jesus resembled modalistic monarchianism in the West and adoptionism in the East. Persecution, such as that by the Inquisition , and the efforts of popes like Innocent III destroyed Catharism...
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Alcuin
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Charlemagne's texts is still credited to Alcuin, though not as many as was once the case. He wrote against the heresy of adoptionism (a political as well as a religious concern), he probably composed the letter to Pope Leo III wherein pope's and king...
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Paul of Samosata
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...function as bishop under Zenobia's protection until the Romans took Palmyra (272). Arius may have been his pupil and his influence on Nestorius was considerable, but his connection with the Paulicians is disputed. See adoptionism .
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monarchianism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Theodotians and Paul of Samosata , held that Jesus was born a man and received the Christ as a power from God at a later time (see adoptionism ). Modalistic monarchians taught that God is unknowable, except for his manifestations, or modes; Christ is one of these...
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Alcuin of York
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...entirely the work of Charlemagne. These included decisions of the thorny problems of iconoclasm and the Spanish heresy of adoptionism. Alcuin's liturgical guide took into account both universally and locally observed rites and served as the basis of the...
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Charlemagne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...bishops and he acted as arbiter in theological disputes by summoning councils, notably that at Frankfurt (794), where adoptionism was rejected and some of the decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea (see Nicaea, Second Council of ) were condemned...
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