Page "Adoptionism" Paragraph 8

Adoptionism is one of two main forms of monarchianism ( the other is modalism, which regards " Father " and " Son " as two historical or soteriological roles of a single divine Person ).

Adoptionism ( also known as dynamic monarchianism ) denies the eternal pre-existence of Christ, and although it explicitly affirms his deity subsequent to events in his life, many classical trinitarians claim that the doctrine implicitly denies it by denying the constant hypostatic union of the eternal Logos to the human nature of Jesus.

Under Adoptionism Jesus is currently divine and has been since his adoption, although he is not equal to the Father, per " my Father is greater than I " ().

and as such is a kind of subordinationism.