sonship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sonship
Example Sentences
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He was ignorant of the meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ.
From Time Magazine Archive
More broadly, Sobrino espouses an evolutionary view of Jesus' sonship.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sufferings of Jesus he regards as necessary in order to test the reality of the life of sonship towards God, and brotherhood towards men, which he came to earth to exemplify.
From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood
The Thirty-nine Articles took essentially Lutheran ground in treating of baptism, recognising it as a vehicle of regeneration and divine sonship, and the tractarians laid uncommonly great stress upon this article.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
From all this, it follows, that our sonship, with all its consequent dignities and privileges, is entirely independent of us.
From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry
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