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In this penetrating analysis of Oneness theology and practice, Gregory Boyd writes from the experience of his four years of personal involvement in a Oneness church. Boyd argues that although Oneness Pentecostals’ belief in Christ’s deity establishes some common ground with other Christians, their aggressive denial of the Trinity has nonetheless fostered their indisputably differing Christian...

Man). In other words, as fully God, Jesus is “Father,” and as fully man, Jesus is “Son.” Hence, whereas the Sonship of Jesus is for trinitarian Christians an aspect of his divinity, for most Oneness writers it is only an aspect of his humanity. “Jesus is God in spite of the sonship and not because of the sonship” (Reeves, Dimensions, 64). As the very influential Oneness author Gordon Magee expresses it, “The Son is the flesh or humanity (Magee, 21). In short, the Son is, not God, but the man in whom
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