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By John C. Cavadini. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1993. Pp. xii + 225. $36.95

This revised doctoral dissertation, completed under the direction of Jaroslav Pelikan at Yale University, is a significant piece of revisionist scholarship; it challenges conventional wisdom concerning Spanish adoptionism.

The traditional approach had been based upon three assertions. First, there is a theological connection between second- and third-century adoptionism...