Usually means: Belief Jesus was adopted as divine.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. adoptionism: Merriam-Webster
  2. Adoptionism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adoptionism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Adoptionism, adoptionism: Wordnik
  5. adoptionism: Wiktionary
  6. Adoptionism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. adoptionism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  8. adoptionism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. adoptionism: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adoptionism: Encyclopedia

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  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Adoptionism: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See adoptionist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (adoptionism)

noun:  (Christianity) A form of Christianity which maintains that Jesus is divine only in the sense that God the Father adopted him, either at Jesus' birth, or at his death, as opposed to the orthodox understanding of the nature of the Trinity.

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