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Monarchianism

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Mon·ar·chi·an·ism  (m-närk--nzm)
n.
Any of several Christian heresies of the second and third centuries a.d. that attempted to maintain monotheism and the unity of the Godhead but thereby denied the independent hypostasis of God the Son.
[From Latin Monarchin, the Monarchians, from monarchia, monarchy; see monarchy.]
Mo·narchi·an n.
monarchianism
a 2nd- and 3rd-century Christian doctrine that maintained that God is a single person as well as a single being. — monarchian, adj.
See also: Christianity
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But even in its 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 Christ's divinity as the slogan "Jesus is God".
Confessing Christ in a Post-Christendom Context by Hall, Douglas John / The Ecumenical Review
 
 
 
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