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Definition of Sabellian

Sabellian
Sabellian Sa*bel"li*an, a. Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabellian
Sabellian Sa*bel"li*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.

Meaning of Sabellian from wikipedia

- In Christian theology, Sabellianism is the belief that there is only one Person ('hypostasis' in the Gr**** language of the fourth century Arian Controversy)...
- Sabellian can refer to Sabellian, a believer in Sabellianism, the nontrinitarian belief that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are different modes or aspects...
- The Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in central and...
- Sabellians is a collective ethnonym for a group of Italic peoples or tribes inhabiting central and southern Italy at the time of the rise of Rome. The...
- the Nicene Creed is pro-Sabellian, the Dedication Creed is anti-Sabellian. Eminent recent scholars confirm the pro-Sabellian nature of the Nicene Creed:...
- divine Person. This understanding has been called Sabellianism or modalistic monarchianism. A Sabellian modalist would say that the One God successively...
- Etruscan invention, an early Sabellian inscription suggests that it is instead an invention of speakers of a Sabellian language (Osco-Umbrian languages)...
- considered him an aspect of the Father rather than a separate person (Sabellianism), both were condemned as heresies by the Catholic Church. The Church...
- hold this in effect produce three gods'.": 185  In the fourth century, Sabellians (such as Eustathius and Marcellus,), Alexander, Athanasius, and the Western...
- Caesarea (c. 313-339). Eustathius, (possibly Sabellian) bishop of Antioch (c. 325-330). Cyrus, (possibly Sabellian) bishop of Beroe. Athanasius (Athanasian)...