The temporal sonship of Christ is a Christian doctrine, which claims that the Logos became the Son of God in the incarnation.
[3] Eternal Generation was also rejected by the antitrinitarian Michael Servetus (1509 or 1511), who was burned at the stake for his views on the trinity.
[5] Within the 1800s, the eternal sonship of Christ began to be denied by the Plymouth Brethren author Frederick E. Raven,[6] which caused large division within Brethren churches in the 20th century, as James Taylor began to follow the "temporal Sonship" the views of F. E. Raven.
A similar division was created in American Fundamentalism in the 1990s, after John MacArthur published a booklet critiquing the eternal Sonship view of Christ.
[7] William Lane Craig, a proponent of Social Trinitarianism, has critiqued the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son.