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Theodotian|θiːəʊˈdəʊʃ(ɪ)ən, -ˈdəʊtɪən|
[f. the name Theodot-us: see -ian.]
A follower of Theodotus (‘the Tanner’) of Byzantium, who (c 200 a.d.) taught the antitrinitarian doctrine of the monarchians; also, a follower of Theodotus (‘the Banker’) who promulgated a similar heresy in the 3rd c. a.d. Hence Theoˈdotianism.
1853W. E. Taylor Hippolytus ii. iv. 102 Disputes occurring among the Theodotians, he became the head of a new sect. 1874J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects, Heresies, etc. (1886) s.v., Epiphanius writes that the Theodotians held Christ to be a mere man, and begotten of the seed of man... Hippolytus and Theodoret state that they had their beginning from Theodotus the Banker. 1876A. Plummer tr. Dȯllinger's Hippolytus & Callistus iv. 287 note, A full denial of the divinity of Christ or Theodotianism. |