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单词 tritheism
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Definition of tritheism in English:

tritheism

noun ˈtrʌɪˌθiːɪz(ə)mtraɪˈθiˌɪzəm
mass noun
  • (in Christian theology) the doctrine of or belief in the three persons of the Trinity as three distinct gods.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Either modalism or tritheism is the natural egress for such a sustained understanding.
    • According to tritheism, on the other hand, the divine persons are each distinct individual persons which are so closely related that they together count as a single thing in some fashion.
    • If used to designate eternal distinctions in God, it leads to tritheism, which is a form of polytheism.
    • In the English Church the error of tritheism was revived by Dean Sherlock in his ‘Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and ever Blessed Trinity,’ 1690.
    • Any use of three identical human figures, although accepted by the Eastern Church in memory of Abraham's three angelic visitors, was prohibited in the West because of its suggestions of tritheism.

Derivatives

  • tritheist

  • noun ˈtrʌɪˌθiːɪsttraɪˈθiɪst
    • Though confessing Father, Son and Spirit, the tritheist does not confess the true and living God, for three distinct Gods is a totally foreign idea to Scripture.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was probably Philoponus's effort to lay hold of this new dimension in the midst of the debates that gained for him as both a monophysite and a tritheist his condemnation.
      • They have become tritheists - those who believe in three gods.
      • In the early church the Christians were accused of being tritheists by those who either refused to understand or could not understand the doctrine of the Trinity.
      • But occasionally tritheists have walked briefly onto the stage of history.
 
 

Definition of tritheism in US English:

tritheism

nountrīˈTHēˌizəmtraɪˈθiˌɪzəm
  • (in Christian theology) the doctrine of or belief in the three persons of the Trinity as three distinct gods.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the English Church the error of tritheism was revived by Dean Sherlock in his ‘Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and ever Blessed Trinity,’ 1690.
    • According to tritheism, on the other hand, the divine persons are each distinct individual persons which are so closely related that they together count as a single thing in some fashion.
    • Any use of three identical human figures, although accepted by the Eastern Church in memory of Abraham's three angelic visitors, was prohibited in the West because of its suggestions of tritheism.
    • If used to designate eternal distinctions in God, it leads to tritheism, which is a form of polytheism.
    • Either modalism or tritheism is the natural egress for such a sustained understanding.
 
 
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