neo-Ebionite

English

Etymology

From neo- +‎ Ebionite.

Adjective

neo-Ebionite (not comparable)

1. (Christianity, rare) Similar to what the Ebionites believed. [20th c.]
   • 1994, Jerome Friedman, edited by Richard H. Popkin, Gordon M. Weiner, Jewish Christians and Christian Jews: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment‎^[1], U.S.A.: Springer Science+Business Media, B.C., →DOI, →ISBN, page 41:

     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.

   • 2012 June 16, Ir. Jim K K Wong, chapter 19, in The Evolution of the God of Illusion‎^[2], Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 142:

     5. the highly reformed neo-Ebionite version where many Judaic practices are still kept.

   • 2019 November 27, Fabio Lichtensztein, Fray Hernando de Talavera. Frente al fenomeno ebionita a judeo cristiano en la España del siglo XV‎^[3], GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 5:

     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?

Noun

neo-Ebionite (plural neo-Ebionites)

1. (Christianity, rare) A postclassical Judeo-Christian whose theology is similar to that of the Ebionites. [19th c.]
   • 1911, Henry Wace, William Coleman Piercy, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies‎^[4], London: John Murray, page 132:

     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.