Monarchianismn.
/məˈnɑːkɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /məˈnɑrkiəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Church History.
The antitrinitarian doctrine of the Monarchians. Also: a belief thought to be similar to that of the Monarchians.
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1841 H. J. Rose tr. A. Neander Hist. Christian Relig. & Church II. 259 The others..were still more strongly opposed to this class of Monarchianism.
1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 246 This shows the yet powerful influence of the Judaic Monarchianism.
1888 E. Hatch Infl. Greek Ideas (1890) vii. 207 The two schools of Monarchianism, in one of which Christ was conceived as a mode of God, and in the other as His exalted creature.
1968 P. J. Hamell Introd. Patrology v. 57 Modalism.., maintaining one and the same Person is God, called Father, Son, and Holy Ghost under different..points of view..was first called Monarchianism, and later Patripassianism.
1982 Greek Orthodox Theol. Rev. 27 386 To tag one or other position as tending toward Monarchianism or Subordinationism.
1998 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 3 Oct. a12 Christadelphians are really a form of the early church heresy, Monarchianism, which taught that only the Father is truly God, Jesus is a form of the Father and the Holy Spirit is the power of the Father.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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