Modalist
The modal (or Sabellianism) is a modern term that means in the context of early Christianity , a form - perhaps the most advanced - of Unitarianism Monarchians taught by Sabellius , a character originally from Libya , based in Rome at the beginning the third century are not in themselves but for us Important Moments This theory is taught by Sabellius to Rome in the early third century. Hippolytus of Rome had personally Sabellius and his name and his doctrine in his "Philosophoumena. He knew theology Trinity of Sabellius, but the Patripassian of NOET he calls modalism People / Three Ways The modalism remains unclear: the only sources of this belief are written by its opponents. Instead of using the term person to speak of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the one divine essence of the Trinity, the modalism intends to restrict the three modes of being one of the one God. God the Father is then the unique personality of the deity. Under this doctrine, the terms Father and the Holy Spirit means the one God incarnate in Jesus. Orthodox theology greater emphasis on people (prosopon) and relationships between them that constitute them. Can be viewed in this context the famous Athanasian Creed. In the fourth century , advocates of orthodoxy Nicene (as Eustathius of Antioch or Marcellus of Ancyra ) are accused by their opponents of modalism Arians. The modalism a descent in some Protestant movements that develop as the trinity monotheism but is rejected by the councils of the 7 churches and the Catholic Church who consider him a heretic. Recently, at the end of the twentieth century some attempts aggiornamento of classical theology have been reconciled by the modalism commentators . The term no longer appears to fit adequately in contemporary culture to the demands of theology, it was proposed to discuss modalities for the divine Persons. References Representatives of this doctrine
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