A church dictionary

by Walter Farquhar Hook

38. The Jovinianists, followers of Jovinian; who denied the virginity of Mary.

39. The Messalians; who chiefly pretended to prophecy.

40. The Bonosians, followers of Bonosus; who held that Jesus Christ was the Son of God only by adoption.

CENTURY V.

41. The Pelagians, followers of Pelagius; who denied the necessity of Divine grace, in order to salvation, &c.

42. Nestorians, followers of Nestorius; who distinguished our blessed Saviour into two persons, the one Divine, the other human.

43. The Eutychians, followers of Eutyches; who fell into the opposite error, and held, that there was but one nature in Jesus Christ.

44. The Theopaschites, followers of Petrus Fullo, bishop of Antioch; so called, because they affirmed that all the three persons in the Trinity were incarnate, and suffered upon the cross.

CENTURY VI.

45. The Predestinarians; so called, because they held that the salvation or damnation of men is pre-ordained, and that no man is saved or damned by his works.