VIII. In the eighth century, the notion that Christ
VIII. In the eighth century, the notion that Christ
Though the true, proper, and natural Son of God according to the divine nature, yet according to the human nature was only the Son of God by adoption and grace, an adoptive Son, was propagated by Elipandus and Felix, Spanish bishops; but condemned by the council at Frankfort, called by Charles the Great;[4515] and the eternal Sonship and generation of Christ was asserted and maintained by Damascene, Bede, Albinus, and others.[4516]