neo-ebionite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A postclassical Judeo-Christian whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites.
Example Sentences
- "From the perspective of the sixteenth century, this neo-Ebionite halfway house between Pharisaic Judaism and Apostolic Christianity came to represent a viable pathway into Christianity for former Jews [who did not share in the traditions of medieval Catholicism] much as it was also a pathway back to the Old Testament for certain evangelical Restitutionist Christians who wished to eliminate much of medieval Catholic tradition."
- "5. the highly reformed neo-Ebionite version where many Judaic practices are still kept."
- "Likewise, this research will seek to answer the question of whether we are at this time, 15th century Spain, facing the possibility of the existence oif a new movement of "Neo-Ebionites", which might have been represented and directed by the same converts, and if this is the case and we really are talking about the existence of a neo-Ebionite movement led by these converts, then who are those converts that constitute it and what religious, social, and political purpose do they have in the development of this ideology?"
- "His views were Monarchian, and are identified by Schleiermacher with those of the Patripassians, and by Bauer with those of Artemon and the neo-Ebionites."
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Inflected Forms
neo-Ebionites (plural)