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- noun Any of several Christian doctrines of the second and third centuries AD that attempted to maintain monotheism and the unity of the Godhead, thereby denying the independent hypostasis of God the Son. Monarchianism was condemned as heretical by the Christian church in the fourth century.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The theological doctrine respecting the Godhead maintained by the Monarchians.
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- proper noun The beliefs of the
Monarchians .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Within the next hundred years these theories were systemized into what has since become known as Monarchianism, i.e., monos = one + archein = to rule, which postulates only one person in God.
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Christian Gnostic beliefs were very much present in early Christianity, along with Logos Christology, Monarchianism, Unitarianism and, of course, Arianism.
Blind Faith? 2009
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Christian Gnostic beliefs were very much present in early Christianity, along with Logos Christology, Monarchianism, Unitarianism and, of course, Arianism.
Blind Faith? 2009
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Father as "Spirit" and the Son as "flesh", and it is scarcely surprising that the similar Monarchianism of Marcellus should have issued in the Theodotianism of Photinus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The Monarchianism of Photinus (q. v.) seems to have been akin to that of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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When Tertullian wrote he himself was no longer in the Church; Monarchianism had sprung up again, but he does not mention its leaders at Rome, and directs his whole argument against his old enemy Praxeas.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Monarchianism, Sabellianism, and Arianism an opportunity was afforded to the Fathers and the oecumenical councils to establish the true meaning of the dogma of the Trinity, to secure it on all sides and to draw out, by speculation, its genuine import.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Monarchianism was the protest against this learned philosophizing, which to the simplicity of the faithful looked too much like a mythology or a
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The combat which the Fathers waged against Monarchianism, Sabellianism, and Subordinationism (Arius, Macedonius) aids considerably in shedding light on the mystery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Marcellus of Ancyra developed a Monarchianism of his own, which was carried much further by his disciple, Photinus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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