The end of early Christian adoptionism?: a note on the invention of adoptionism, its sources, and its current demise
"Adoptionism" is an early Christian "heresy" often associated with early strands of Jewish Christian tradition. It figures as such in handbooks of church history and New Testament studies alike. This essay investigates the origins of the concept of "adoptionism" in the...
| Published in: | International journal of philosophy and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2015]
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International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Adoptianism
/ Soteriology
/ Church
/ History 30-400
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBF Christology NBK Soteriology |
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| Summary: | "Adoptionism" is an early Christian "heresy" often associated with early strands of Jewish Christian tradition. It figures as such in handbooks of church history and New Testament studies alike. This essay investigates the origins of the concept of "adoptionism" in the historiography of early Christianity, offers a fresh analysis of the relevant "adoptionist" sources, and concludes that the concept is a misleading one. Therefore, the proposal is made to abandon the notion of "adoptionism" as a category and to focus on the authors involved as such and to investigate what their soteriological and christological concerns were, rather than to identify them as ‘adoptionists’ and to study them with that identification as a starting point. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2327 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2015.1091981 |