Meanings
- not comparablerareChristianitySimilar to what the Ebionites believed.First known use 20th c.
5. the highly reformed neo-Ebionite version where many Judaic practices are still kept.
2012 June 16, Ir. Jim K K Wong, chapter 19, in The Evolution of the God of Illusion, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 1422 more examples
From the perspective of the sixteenth century, this neo-Ebionite halfway house between Pharisaic Judaism and Apostolic Christianity came to represent a viable pathway into Christianity for former Jews [who did not share in the traditions of medieval Catholicism] much as it was also a pathway back to the Old Testament for certain evangelical Restitutionist Christians who wished to eliminate much of medieval Catholic tradition.
1994, Jerome Friedman, edited by Richard H. Popkin, Gordon M. Weiner, Jewish Christians and Christian Jews: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, U.S.A.: Springer Science+Business Media, B.C., →DOI, →ISBN, page 41Likewise, this research will seek to answer the question of whether we are at this time, 15th century Spain, facing the possibility of the existence oif a new movement of "Neo-Ebionites", which might have been represented and directed by the same converts, and if this is the case and we really are talking about the existence of a neo-Ebionite movement led by these converts, then who are those converts that constitute it and what religious, social, and political purpose do they have in the development of this ideology?
2019 November 27, Fabio Lichtensztein, Fray Hernando de Talavera. Frente al fenomeno ebionita a judeo cristiano en la España del siglo XV, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 5
plural neo-Ebionites
- rareChristianityA postclassical Judeo-Christian whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.First known use 19th c.
His views were Monarchian, and are identified by Schleiermacher with those of the Patripassians, and by Bauer with those of Artemon and the neo-Ebionites.
1911, Henry Wace, William Coleman Piercy, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies, London: John Murray, page 132
Origin
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