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
You and I know nothing of a man's sonship until he believes.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles
A sonship indeed is what Our Lord is Himself incessantly teaching the Apostles to regard as their high privilege, for God is not only His Father, but theirs: "Thus shalt thou pray, Our Father."
From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Jarrett, Bede
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 Coulton, G. G.
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