Antipope Natalius
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Antipope Natalius | |
|---|---|
| Church | Adoptionism |
| Installed | c. 199 |
| Term ended | c. 200 |
| Predecessor | Roman claimant: Victor I Zephyrinus Antipapal claimant: Antipapacy established |
| Successor | Roman claimant: Zephyrinus Antipapal claimant: Hippolytus of Rome |
| Opposed to | Pope Zephyrinus |
Natalius was a figure in early church history who is sometimes considered to be the first antipope of Rome.[1]
The only information about Natalius is a quote from an unnamed earlier writer by Eusebius,[2] telling of a 3rd-century priest who accepted the bishopric of the Adoptionists,[1] which was seen as a heretical group in Rome. Natalius soon repented and tearfully begged Pope Zephyrinus to receive him into communion.[3][4]
According to the accounts, Natalius became the head of this Christian community, due to the influence of the theologians, Asclepius and Theodotus the Younger, disciples of Theodotus of Byzantium. Theodotus had been excommunicated in 190 by Pope Victor I for his teachings, and this caused a schism, albeit of small proportions, within the Church. Theodotus, a leather merchant and a scholar of Greek culture, argued that Jesus was at first an ordinary man, in whom the Logos, God or the Wisdom of God dwelt "as in a temple", as it had been with Moses and the prophets. This had happened at his baptism, when he received the divine grace or adoption (dynamis) and thus became equally divine, his divinity being inferior to that of the Father (God or Logos). This doctrine, called dynamic monarchianism, was both Ebionistic and Adhocianistic.[citation needed]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Dix, Gregory; Chadwick, Henry (2013). The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St Hippolytus of Rome, Bishop and Martyr. Routledge. p. xvii. ISBN 9781136101465. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ Historia Ecclesiastica, V, 28
- ^ Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature: Zephyrinus
- ^ "Monarchians – Dynamists, or Adoptionists". Catholic Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
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