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Belief that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three characterizations of one God, rather than three distinct "persons" in one God. First formally stated by Noetus of Smyrna c. 190, refined by Sabellius c. 210 who applied the names merely to different roles of God in the history and economy of salvation.
If anyone declares that it can be only inexactly and not truly said that the holy and glorious ever-virgin Mary is the mother of God, or says that she is so only in some relative way, considering that she bore a mere man and that God the Word was not made into human flesh in her, holding rather that the nativity of a man from her was referred ...
Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches: Antidicomarians also called Dimoerites, were a Christian sect active from the 3 rd to the 5 th centuries who rejected the perpetual virginity of Mary. They were condemned by St. Epiphanius of Salamis in the 4 th century. [23] Priscillianism: Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox ...
Heresy is defined by the Catholic Church as "the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith". [1] The term heresy connotes both the belief in itself, and the attitude towards said belief.
The history of the filioque controversy is the historical development of theological controversies within Christianity regarding three distinctive issues: the orthodoxy of the doctrine of procession of the Holy Spirit as represented by the Filioque clause, the nature of anathemas mutually imposed by conflicted sides during the Filioque controversy, and the liceity (legitimacy) of the insertion ...
But a tolerance which extends to Deism and Naturalism, which even the ancient heretics rejected, can never be approved by anyone who uses his reason. [14] Contrary to the image of a clockmaker, the Catholic Church teaches that creation is a continuing work of God, in which man shares. [15] "With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to ...
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession identifies "Holy Scripture" with the Word of God [33] and calls the Holy Spirit the author of the Bible. [34] Because of this, Lutherans confess in the Formula of Concord , "we receive and embrace with our whole heart the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the pure, clear ...
Oneness Pentecostalism, as with other modalist groups, teach that the Holy Spirit is a mode of God, rather than a distinct or separate person in the godhead, and that the Holy Spirit is another name for God the Father. According to Oneness theology, the Holy Spirit is the Father operating in a certain capacity or manifestation.