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Christian History Magazine—Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

“There was a time when the Son was not,” sang Arius, a 4th century Libyan bishop and poster child of early church heresy. Debates covered a wide range of issues, from wealth to wild charismaticism to non-Trinitarianism, but none was more central to preserving the Christian faith than the personhood of Jesus Christ. Discussions of his divinity and humanity were the perpetual theological argument...

God is one, and Jesus must be understood in Old Testament categories. Jesus was merely a specially blessed prophet. Key text: 1 Tim. 2:5: “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.” Adoptionists, a.k.a., dynamic monarchianists: No denying Jesus was special, but what happened is this: at birth (not conception) or baptism, God “adopted” the human Jesus as his special son and gave him an extra measure of divine power (dynamis, in Greek). Key text: Luke 3:22 (in
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