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.
From Time Magazine Archive
More broadly, Sobrino espouses an evolutionary view of Jesus' sonship.
From Time Magazine Archive
This again is complicated by the doubt which has been thrown on a Thomas Chaucer’s sonship to Geoffrey, in spite of the definite assertion by the former’s contemporary, Gascoigne, Chancellor of Oxford University.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
The distinction between the servile spirit and the spirit of sonship being thus radical, it could be by no mere formality, or exhibition of his legal title, that Isaac became the heir of God’s heritage.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
Galatians, Epistle to the, 175.Gideon’s faith, 261.Glory, of sonship, 37; of leadership, 38;in power to consecrate, 39;in destroying Satan, 42.God, not a mechanician, 209; the Son is, 27;a consuming fire, 309.Gnostics,
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards
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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