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Subordinationism is a Trinitarian doctrine wherein the Son (and sometimes also the Holy Spirit) is subordinate to the Father, not only in submission and role, but with actual ontological subordination to varying degrees. [1]
The Koine Greek term logos is translated in the Vulgate with the Latin verbum. Both logos and verbum are used to translate דבר in the Hebrew Bible. The translation of the last four words of John 1:1 (θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος) has been a particular topic of debate in Western Christianity in the modern period.
Origen believed that the persons of the trinity are immaterial and that the Son is the Wisdom of God and subordinate to the Father, for Origen the Father has the highest rank over the other persons of the Trinity.
Creation came into existence only through the Logos, and God's nearest approach to the world is the command to create. While the Logos is substantially a unity, he comprehends a multiplicity of concepts, so that Origen terms him, in Platonic fashion, "essence of essences" and "idea of ideas".
In 4th-century Christianity, the Anomoeans [1] / ˌ æ n ə ˈ m iː ə n z /, also known as Heterousians / ˌ h ɛ t ə r ə ˈ j uː ʒ ə n z /, Aetians / eɪ ˈ iː ʃ ə n z /, or Eunomians / j uː ˈ n oʊ m i ə n z /, were a sect that held to a form of Arianism: that Jesus was neither of the same nature as God the Father nor a similar nature to God the Father (homoiousian)—the latter ...
Eternal functional subordination (EFS) or Eternal subordination of the Son (ESS) is a Trinitarian doctrine which proposes a hierarchy within the trinity, where though the Son is ontologically equal to the Father, he is subordinate in role, obeying the Father in eternity.
During the patristic period, Christian theologians attempted to clarify the relationship between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. [5] Monarchianism developed in the 2nd century and persisted further into the 3rd century.
Paul taught that Jesus was born a mere man, but that he was infused with the divine Logos or word of God. Hence, Jesus was seen not as God-become-man but as man-become-God. In his Discourses to Sabinus of Spoleto, of which only fragments are preserved in a book against heresies ascribed to Anastasius, Paul writes: