The Four Types of Belief About the Nature of Christ

The most common way to describe this is to take a ancient hereseological definitions, while acknowledging that these definitions are extremes. On one side, you have what's called dosetism. Dosetism comes from the greek word doceo, which means to seem or to appear. The opposite extreme of this is called adoptionism. That's the belief that jesus was, in fact, fully human and god adopted him as his son. One of em could be called possession christology, or could be called a separationist christology. This is the belief that at some point in his life, the holy spirit entered into him such that he took on divine attributes.