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neo-Ebionite

neo-Ebionite adjective: similar to what the Ebionites believed.

Adjective

neo-Ebionite (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Similar to what the Ebionites believed.
    • 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...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....
    • 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 142

Noun

neo-Ebionite (plural neo-Ebionites)

  1. (rare) A postclassical Judeo-Christian whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.
    • 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...

Forms of neo-Ebionite

pluralneo-Ebionites

Origin of neo-Ebionite

From neo- + Ebionite.

Questions about neo-Ebionite

What does neo-Ebionite mean?
Neo-Ebionite means similar to what the Ebionites believed.
What part of speech is neo-Ebionite?
Neo-Ebionite can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near neo-Ebionite in the dictionary

  1. neo-druid
  2. neo-druidism
  3. Neo-Druidry
  4. neo-druids
  5. neo-Ebionism
  6. neo-Ebionite
  7. neo-eugenic
  8. neo-eugenics
  9. Neo-Europe
  10. Neo-Europes
  11. neo-expressionism

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