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Adoptionism
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01150a.htmThe theory that the man Jesus at some point in time became the Son of God only by adoption. Strictly speaking, refers to an eighth-century Spanish heresy, but the term is also used to cover similar beliefs.
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