MONARCHIANISM

mōnärˈkēənĭzəm [Gr.,=belief in the rule of one], the concept of God that maintains his sole authority even over Christ and the Holy Spirit. Its characteristic tenet, that God the Father and Jesus are one person, was developed in two forms in early Christianity. Dynamistic monarchians, such as the Theodotians and Paul of Samosata, held that Jesus was born a man and received the Christ as a power from God at a later time (see adoptionism). Modalistic monarchians taught that God is unknowable, except for his manifestations, or modes; Christ is one of these. Because of the consequent implication that God the Father must have died on the cross, they were called Patripassians [Lat.,= the Father suffering]. Sabellius fully developed modalism.

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History of Dogma - Vol. 2 & 3
Book by Adolf Harnack, Neil Buchanan; Dover Publications, 1961
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal--History
...apologetic theology came to be generally known and accepted in the Church, as is shown by the long continued conflict against Monarchianism. 4 The origin of Catholicism can only be very imperfectly described within the framework of the history of dogma...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Vol. 7
Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson, George William Gilmore; Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
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A Short History of Christian Doctrine
Book by Bernhard Lohse, F. Ernest Stoeffler; Fortress Press, 1985
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal--History
...docetism, but also the adoptionist Monarchianism about which we shall speak in the...such pluralism stood what was called Monarchianism. Its main concern was to preserve...Father. According to one brand of Monarchianism, so-called dynamistic Monar- chianism...
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The Ancient Catholic Church: From the Accession of Trajan to the Fourth General Council, (A.D. 98-451)
Book by Robert D. D. Rainy; Charles Scribners Sons, 1902
Subjects: Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600
...Monarchian theories 209 - 211 Dynamical Monarchianism--Paul of Samosata 212 - 215 Modalistic Monarchianism--Sabellius 215 - 217 Review...
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The Early Christian Church - Vol. 2
Book by Philip Carrington; Cambridge University Press, 1957
Subjects: Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600
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The Three African Popes
Journal article by Millicent Browne; The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 22, 1998
Subjects: African Americans--Religious aspects, Catholic Church--Race relations, Papacy--Race relations, Popes--Race relations
...parties and this becoming the scapegoat of both sides. (Bell, 7). This heresy has a third name, Monarchianism, sometimes called Modalistic, Monarchianism, because it asserts the unity of God. (Walker, 74). (12.) Riddle, 44. (13.) Bell, M.I...
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Confessing Christ in a Post-Christendom Context
Journal article by Douglas John Hall; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 52, 2000
Subjects: Christianity--Analysis, Jesus Christ--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theology, Doctrinal--Analysis
...officially sanctioned forms, the trinitarianism of the classical tradition ruled out as plainly heretical the docetism, monarchianism and monophysitism that would have justified any such bald statement of Christs divinity as the slogan "Jesus is God". Its...
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Le Christ De Tertullien
Journal article by David P. Efroymson; Theological Studies, Vol. 66, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Le Christ de Tertullien (Book)--Book reviews
...more-than-adequate job in arguing for a distinction among Father, Son, and Spirit without abandoning his own "moderate" or "ordered" monarchianism, defending him against "the common prejudice ... about the imperfection of trinitarian thought accepted and transmitted...
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Irenaeus on the Baptism of Jesus
Journal article by Daniel A. Smith, Kilian Mcdonnell; Theological Studies, Vol. 59, 1998
Subjects: Baptism--Religious aspects, Irenaeus--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jesus Christ--Conduct of life
...Wisdom appear to be only operative faculties of the one God, and concluded that this pattern of reflection would lead to monarchianism.(8) More to the point, I believe, is Mary Ann Donovans recent comment: "While the association of the Father with his `Hands...


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encyclopedia articles on: Monarchianism  - 11 results

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Monarchianism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MONARCHIANISM monar ke niz m Gr.,=belief in the rule of one, the concept of God that maintains his sole authority even over Christ and the...
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Patripassians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PATRIPASSIANS see monarchianism . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Paul of Samosata
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...theologian, heretical patriarch of Antioch. He was a friend and high official of Zenobia of Palmyra. Paul enounced a dynamic monarchianism , denying the three Persons of the Trinity. He taught that the Logos came to dwell in Jesus at baptism, but that Jesus possessed...
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Unitarianism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...only in one person. While there were previous antitrinitarian movements in the early Christian Church, like Arianism and Monarchianism, modern Unitarianism originated in the period of the Protestant Reformation. In Geneva, Michael Servetus was burned at...
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Sabellius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...theologian, b. probably Libya or Egypt. He went to Rome, became the leader of those who accepted the doctrine of modalistic monarchianism , and was excommunicated by Pope St. Calixtus I in 220. Opposing the orthodox teaching of "essential Trinity," Sabellius...
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