Definition of Modalist. Meaning of Modalist. Synonyms of Modalist

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Definition of Modalist

Modalist
Modalist Mo"dal*ist, n. (Theol.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. --Eadie.

Meaning of Modalist from wikipedia

- themselves to be strictly monotheistic, similar to Jews and Muslims. Modalists consider God to be absolutely one and believe that he reveals himself...
- with respect to baptisms. Oneness Pentecostals are often referred to as "Modalists" or "Sabellians" or "Jesus Only". Denominations within the Sabbatarian...
- "two-in-one", rather than three. Oneness Pentecostalism, as with other modalist groups, teach that the Holy Spirit is a mode of God, rather than a distinct...
- condemned the term homoousios (ὁμοούσιος, "of the same being") in the modalist sense in which he used it. Among the nontrinitarian beliefs, Sabellianism...
- three co-eternal persons within the Godhead, or a "co-equal Trinity". Modalists note that the only number expressly and repeatedly ascribed to God in...
- by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity...
- considered the Father to be God (Yahweh), he responded to criticism of the Modalist Praxeas that this meant that Tertullian's Christianity was not monotheistic...
- a distinction between the Son and the Father, to combat Marcionites, Modalists and Adoptionists. Novatian believed that the role of the Holy Spirit was...
- has been called Sabellianism or modalistic monarchianism. A Sabellian modalist would say that the One God successively revealed Himself to man throughout...
- Jesus's authority over the Holy Spirit. During the Council of Nicea, the modalist bishops of Rome and Alexandria aligned politically with Athanasius; whereas...