Sabellianism

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Sabellianism

In Christianity, Sabellianism (also known as modalism) is the second-century belief that the three persons of the Trinity are merely different modes or aspects of God, rather than three distinct persons. It is attributed to Sabellius, who taught a form of this doctrine in Rome in the second century. Hippolytus knew Sabellius personally and mentioned him in the Philosophumena. He knew Sabellius disliked Trinitarian theology, yet he called Modal Monarchism the heresy of Noetos, not that of Sabellius. Sabellianism was embraced by Christians in Cyrenaica, to whom Demetrius, Patriarch of Ale ...

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Patripassianism In Christianity, Patripassianism is the belief that God the Father and Son are simply different aspects of God. The implication of this belief is that God the Father suffered on the cross. Patripassianism is closely related to Sabellianism. See also. Heresy Nontrinitarianism Trinitarianism Trinity ...

Sabellianism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Sabellianism

Sabellianism

Alternative name for Modalism.

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Monarchianism

Monarchianism, or Monarchism as it is sometimes called, is a set of beliefs that emphasize God as being one, that God is the single and only ruler. This emphasis conflicted with the doctrine of the Trinity, of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Models of resolving the tension between the two principles in favour of God's oneness were proposed in the 2nd century, but rejected as heretical by the Church. Monarchianism in-and-of itself is not a complete theory of the relation of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, bu ...

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Trinitarian formula

The trinitarian formula is the phrase "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (original Greek εις το ονομα του πατρος και του υιου και του αγίου πνεύματος, eis to onoma tou patros kai tou huiou kai tou hagiou pneumatos), or words to that form and effect referring to the persons of the Holy Trinity. These words are quoted from a command of Jesus in Matthew 28:19, commonly called the Great Commission: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the ...

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the 5th century, who wrote a collection of books, the Corpus Areopagiticum, falsely ascribed to the Dionysius mentioned in Acts 17:34. The author was historically believed to be the Areopagite because he claimed acquaintance with biblical characters. Georgian academician Shalva Nutsubidze and Belgian professor Ernest Honigmann were authors of a theory identifying pseudo-Dionysius the ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius of Caesarea (~275 – May 30, 339) (often called Eusebius Pamphili, "Eusebius [the friend] of Pamphilus") was a bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and is often referred to as the father of church history because of his work in recording the history of the early Christian church. An earlier history by Hegesippus that he referred to has not survived. Eusebius of Caesarea - Biography. His exact date and place of birth are unknown, and little is known of his youth. He became acquainted with the pre ...

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Eusebius of Caesarea - Estimate of Eusebius

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Arius

Arius (AD 256 - 336, poss. in North Africa) was an early Christian theologian, who taught that the Son of God was not eternal, and was subordinate to God the Father (a view known generally as Arianism). Although he attracted considerable support at the time (and since), Arius's views were deemed heretical at the Council of Nicaea, leading to the formation of the Nicene Creed. Arius is also known as Arius of Alexandria. He was possibly of Libyan and Berber descent. His father's name is given as Ammonius. He was made presbyter of ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Basil of Caesarea

Basil (ca. 330 - January 1, 379), also called Basil the Great, was bishop of Caesarea, a leading churchman in the 4th century. The Eastern Orthodox Church considers him a saint and one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, together with Gregory Nazianzus and John Chrysostom. Basil, Gregory Nazianzus, and Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa are called the Cappadocian Fathers. The Roman Catholic Church considers him a saint and a Doctor of the Church. The Basilian Fathers, also known as The Congregation of St. Basil, is an international order of Roman Ca ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Trimurti

In Hinduism, the Trimurti (also called the Hindu trinity) are three aspects of God in His forms as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. This Trimurti concept is a tenet strongly held in Smartism as well as Ayyavazhi mythology. Brahma - the Creator Vishnu - the Preserver Shiva - the Destroyer The trimurti itself is conceived of as a deity and artistically represented as a three-faced human figure. Brahma is no longer as relevant as he once was, some would say the all-in-one Devi or Shakti, the Divine Moth ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Christian theological controversy

History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Unitarianism

Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Historic Unitarians believed in the moral authority, but not the deity, of Jesus. Unitarians are characterized by some as being identified through history as free thinkers and dissenters, evolving their beliefs in the direction of rationalism and humanism. Throughout the world, many Unitarian congregations and associations belong to the International Council of Unitarians and Universalis ...

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Unitarianism - Impact and opposition

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Cyril of Jerusalem

Cyril of Jerusalem was a distinguished theologian of the early Church (315 - 386). He is venerated as a saint by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. In 1883 the Holy See declared him a Doctor of the Church. Cyril of Jerusalem - Life and character. Little is known of his life before he became bishop; the assignment of the year 315 for his birth rests on mere conjecture. He seems to have been ordained deacon by Bishop Macarius of Jerusalem about 335, and priest some ten yea ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Trinity

History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations Chris ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Alan Campbell pastor

Pastor Alan Campbell is the Pentecostal pastor of the Cregagh Covenant Peoples Fellowship in Belfast, Ireland, co-director of Open Bible Ministries with Glyn Jones, and a prominent scholar and lecturer in the British Israel movement. Campbell is also popular in Historicist circles because of his identification of the Papacy as the Antichrist of Biblical prophecy. Alan Campbell pastor - Brief biography. Campbell was born in Belfast on August 6, 1949 into a staunchly Presbyterian home, in a Roman Catholic are ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Heresy

Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a "theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the catholic or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. By extension, [heresy is an] opinion or doctrine in philosophy, politics, science, art, etc., at variance with those generally accepted as authoritative." Heresy - Etymology. The word "heresy" comes from ...

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Heresy - Contemporary heresy

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Criticisms of Charismatic and Pentecostal belief

Charismatic is an umbrella term used to describe Christians who believe that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit seen in the first century Christian Church, such as glossolalia, healing and miracles, are available to contemporary Christians and ought to be experienced and practised today. The word charismatic is derived from the Greek word charis (meaning a grace or a gift) which is the term used in the Bible to des ...

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Criticisms of Charismatic and Pentecostal belief - Criticisms from within the Pentecostal / Charismatic movement

Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - William M. Branham

William Marrion Branham (April 6, 1909, Kentucky - 1965) was an influential Bible minister sometimes credited with founding the Latter Rain Movement within American Pentecostal churches, elements of which are present in most modern Pentecostal and Charismatic churches (although William Branham denied any specific connection with the movement). Many consider him a false prophet who taught heret ...

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia - Apocrypha

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Sabellianism: Encyclopedia II - Arius - Arius's Concept of Christ

This question of the exact relationship between the Father and the Son, a part of Christology, had been raised some 50 years before Arius, when Paul of Samosata was deposed in AD 269 for his agreement with those who had used the word homoousios (Greek for same substance) to express the relation of the Father and the Son. The expression was at that time thought to have a Sabellian tendency, though, as events showed, this was on account o ...

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