modalism

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"If a typical household shifts from driving everywhere (what we call, automobile dependency) to multi-modalism (using a combination of travel modes) and so is able shed one vehicle, the savings typically average about $5,000 annually."

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  1. In theology, the doctrine, adopted by Sabellius in the third century, that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are different manifestations of one and the same person. The orthodox doctrine of the Trinity stands between tritheism and modalism, now leaning to the one, now to the other, when either the tripersonality or the unity is emphasized. P. Schaff, Christ and Christianity, p. 68.

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  • (The only thing I could relate their beliefs to within church history was some form of modalism that they were presenting.) —  finitum non capax infiniti
  • "If a typical household shifts from driving everywhere (what we call, automobile dependency) to multi-modalism (using a combination of travel modes) and so is able shed one vehicle, the savings typically average about $5,000 annually." —  Streetsblog New York City
  • Use it for a while, and you'll get used to it, but this sort of multi-modalism always makes for a confusing user experience. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Swedenborg's idea of a trinity of essentials, rather than of persons, should not be confused with modalism-the idea of there being one God that at various times takes on different functions or modes in sequence. —  Earthpages.ca - Think Free
  • They do not appear to understand the profoundly altering effect of egalitarianism's anthropological modalism on the life and worship of the church, and on the family, nor the natural operations of minds seized by an egalitarian principle and driven by the belief that they have not only the knowledge, but a spiritual vocation, to change beliefs and practices that have been held in the Church from its beginning. —  Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments
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