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- noun Plural form of
Patripassian .
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In the West they were called Patripassians, whereas in the East they are usually called 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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A somewhat paradoxical result of the defence of the Logos doctrine in the struggle against the "Patripassians" was the increased emphasis that now began to be laid on the integrity and independence of the human nature in Christ.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Patripassians, the Sabellians, the Macedonians, and the Arians, and again the difficulty of conceiving the supernatural or justifying the idea of inherited sin motived the Pelagian denial of these doctrines.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 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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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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Patripassians, who maintained that there was but one God, and that the
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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Noctus of Smyrna maintained the doctrine of the Patripassians, that God was one and indivisible, and suffered to redeem mankind; Sabellius also taught that God was one, but that Jesus was a man, to whom was united a "certain energy only, proceeding from the Supreme Parent" (p. 83).
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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[456: 1] According to their views the first and second Persons of the Godhead are identical; and, as it apparently followed from this theory, that the Father suffered on the cross, they received the name of _Patripassians_.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854
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Patripassians; those who asserted that the Father was born of the
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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