Adoptionism

Adoptionism: The Early Church’s Battle for the Divine Sonship of Christ

The second and third centuries of the Christian era witnessed a succession of theological controversies that would shape the doctrinal foundations of the Catholic faith for all subsequent ages. Among these early disputes, Adoptionism stands as one of the most significant challenges to orthodox Christology. This heresy, which asserted that Jesus Christ was born as […]

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The New Prophecy and the Old Faith: Montanism’s Challenge to Early Christianity

The New Prophecy and the Old Faith: Montanism’s Challenge to Early Christianity

Introduction: The Challenge of the “New Prophecy” Among the many theological challenges that confronted the early Church, few were as provocative or enduring in their implications as Montanism. Emerging in the latter half of the second century in Phrygia, a region of Asia Minor, Montanism presented itself not as a rival religion, but as a

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