Meanings
- no pluralrareChristianityA postclassical Judeo-Christian denomination whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.First known use 20th c.
This third group, that which was led from Creationalism to neo-Ebionism, is represented by Arius and his followers.
1956, Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Church Fathers: Faith, Trinity, Incarnation, volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, page 5932 more examples
Somewhat later a form of neo-Ebionism evolved which understood the notion of the incarnation of the Logos in the person of Jesus in much the manner that the Divine Presence may be said to rest upon any righteous and exemplary man.
1992, J. David Belich, edited by Lenn E. Goodman, Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, State University of New York Press, Albany, →ISBN, page 247Augustine seemed to be making room for a kind of neo-Ebionism on the part of Jewish converts, for there can be no such thing as a qualified submission to the law’s observances.
2002, Peter J. Gorday, “six”, in Daniel Patte, Eugene TeSelle, editors, Engaging Augustine on Romans: Self, Context, and Theology in Interpretation, Harrisburg Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, →ISBN, page 215
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