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- noun Plural form of
Monarchian .
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Furthermore, to speak of them as Dynamistic Monarchians groups them with other Monarchians, which is desirable.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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On the other hand "Monarchians" was a name connoting heresy when applied to those who pushed the doctrine of the Unity to an extreme, involving denial of a Trinity.
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Praxeas with Callistus; he proves that the Monarchians attacked in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Monarchians and Sabellius himself, as well as the opposite error of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Hippolytus date it before the creation, and the Monarchians perhaps not until the Incarnation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Modalist Monarchians, or Patripassians [Sabellians].
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In the first decades of the third century, Rome impartially repelled opposing heresies, those which identified the three Persons of the Holy Trinity with only a modal distinction (Monarchians, Sabellians, "Patripassians"), and those who, on the contrary, made Christ a mere man, or seemed to ascribe to the Word of God a distinct being from that of the Father.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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By the Patripassians this first principle was used to deny the Trinity, and they are with some reason called Monarchians.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Theodotion and the Alogi; in like fashion he opposed the false doctrines of Noetus, of Epigonus, of Cleomenes, and of Sabellius, who emphasized the unity of God too one-sidedly (Monarchians) and saw in the concepts of the Father and the Son merely manifestations (modi) of the Divine Nature (Modalism, Sabellianism).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Persons: God the Father appears on earth as Son; hence it seemed to their opponents that Monarchians made the Father suffer and die.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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