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Opposers of the theory of adoption. Etherius of Othma. Beatus. Violence of the controversy. Conduct'of Elipandus. Spread of the controversy to France. Characteristics of Felix of Urgellis. Condemnation of the theory of adoption at Ratisbone Felix in Rome. Recalled. In Spain. His letters to Spanish bishops. Council at Frankfort Alcuin. Felix defends the theory of adeption against Alcuin. His free views respect ing the Church. Letters from Elipandus to Alcuin. Elipandus on the R0 man Church. Pope Hadrian respecting the Apost. Decret., Act. 15. Alcain's proposal for the refutation of Felix. Abbot Benedict of Aniana, Archbishop Leidrad of Lyons, and Bishop Nefrid of Narbonne, are sept to suppress the doctrine of adeption in the south of France. Their meeting with Felix at Urgellis. Felix declares himself vanquished in the synod at aix-la-chapelle. He is consigned to the care of Leidrad of Lyons. Felix remains true to his conviction (d. Agnoetism.

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Another theatre was opened, at this period, for the world-transforming activity of the Gospel; and we see it operating in a new and peculiar manner. In the earlier chapters of this work, we observed how Christianity united itself with the systems of culture in the old world, as exhibited under the form of Greek and Roman nationality; and how, when the harmonious design, founded on the principles of nature and humanity, had reached its highest point, and then, by suffering itself to be perverted, was destroyed, Christianity was the means of introducing a new and divine element of life; and of thereby reanimating the race lying under spiritual death, and of elevating it to a far higher degree of spiritual development than it had hitherto reached: whence a new creation was seen arising out of the new spirit, but retaining the old form.

But a people of an altogether ruder nature now present themselves to our notice; and to these also Christianity is seen imparting the germ of all human culture in the seed of divine life; not, indeed, as something already prepared from without, but so that it should develope itself, as something essentially fresh, from within, through the inward impulses of divine life, corresponding to the peculiar character of the people.

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