May c. 201-c. 300 A.D. Paul of Samosata—Bishop of Antioch & Dynamic Monarchian
May c. 201-c. 300 A.D. Paul of Samosata—Bishop of Antioch & Dynamic Monarchian Editors. “Paul of Samosata.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/447010/Paul-Of-Samosata . Accessed 8 Apr 2015. · Article · Web sites Paul Of Samosata, (flourished 3rd century), heretical bishop of Antioch in Syria and proponent of a kind of dynamic monarchian doctrine on the nature of Jesus Christ ( see Monarchianism ). The only indisputably contemporary document concerning him is a letter written by his ecclesiastical opponents, according to which he was a worldly cleric of humble origin who became bishop of Antioch in 260. Paul held that it was a man who was born of Mary, through whom God spoke his Word (Logos). Jesus was a man who became divine, rather than God become man. A similar speculative Christology was found among the primitive Ebionites of Judaea; in Theodotus and Artemon of Rome (both of whom were excommunicated); and perhaps...