Monarchianism

His views, however, did not neatly fit in either of the two main forms of Monarchianism.

Dynamic monarchianism holds that God is one being, above all else, wholly indivisible, and of one nature.

He was a believer in monarchianism, a doctrine about the Trinity; his teachings reflect adoptionism.

Paul's teaching is a form of Monarchianism, which emphasized the oneness of God.

Two contradictory models of monarchianism have been propounded:

This understanding has been called Sabellianism and Modalistic Monarchianism.

Sabellianism is also known as modalism, modalistic monarchianism, or modal monarchism.

The New Church has been seen as a proponent of Monarchianism; it does not, however, see God as appearing in three modes.

Historic Sabellianism taught that God the Father was the only person of the Godhead, a belief known as Monarchianism.

Tillich, P., The History of Christian Thought (Lecture 12): Monarchianism.

In the 3rd century there were also Trinitarian theologies expressed in writings against Monarchianism, Sabellianism and Modalism.

In the struggles against Monarchianism, Sabellianism, and Arianism the emphasis was on the true meaning of the dogma of the Trinity.

He brought up the third-century example of Firmilian, a saint, who had taken a soft line with Paul of Samosata, later adjudged a heretic (monarchianism).

Modalism (or modalistic monarchianism) considers God to be one person appearing and working in the different "modes" of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Adoptionism, sometimes called dynamic monarchianism, is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was adopted as God's Son either at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.

Those who rejected the identification of Jesus with the Logos, rejecting also the Gospel of John, were called Alogi (see also Monarchianism).

John Quincy Adams followed a Oneness or concurrent modalistic monarchian form of Unitarianism, not to be confused with dynamic monarchianism another Unitarian teaching.

It has been alleged that the Catharist concept of Jesus resembled nontrinitarian modalistic monarchianism (Sabellianism) in the West and adoptionism in the East.

This doctrine, sometimes called "Dynamic Monarchianism" or "Adoptionism", was declared heretical by Pope Victor I, and Theodotus was excommunicated.

This sort of thinking, known as Modal Monarchianism or Sabellianism, would one day lead to a compromise doctrine that the Father and the Son are consubstantial (of the same being).

The Adoptionist view was later developed by adherents of the form of Monarchianism that is represented by Theodotus of Byzantium and Paul of Samosata.

Adoptionism is one of two main forms of monarchianism (the other is modalism, which regards "Father" and "Son" as two historical or soteriological roles of a single divine Person).

In a series of monographs he has published on early Christian beliefs (Monarchianism, Trinity, Apostles' Creed) and their reception in the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment and in contemporary theology.

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.

-General Eva Burrows (2nd Australian General) 1986 to 1993 'Adoptionism', also called dynamic monarchianism, was a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely human and that he became divine later in his life.