sonship
Americannoun
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sonships
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He was ignorant of the meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ.
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More broadly, Sobrino espouses an evolutionary view of Jesus' sonship.
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It is a "partaker of the Divine nature," by union with Christ and sonship to God; and one of the first features of that nature is love.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
Life is love and beauty and sonship with God.
From Victory out of Ruin by Norman Maclean
It is animated throughout by the spirit of sonship, of which the perfect realisation is seen in Christ Himself.
From The Christian Use of the Psalter by Arthur Richard Whitham
A trifling predilection for the real thing in sonships is absolutely vital, even to the continuance of the artificial variety.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
There are in the Bible different kinds of sonship, or sonships on different levels.
From Some Essentials of Religion by E. J. Bidwell
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