tritheism
IPA: trˈɪθiɪzʌm
noun
- A belief in three gods, especially the nontrinitarian doctrine that God the Son, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit are separate gods which is condemned as heresy by most Christian denominations.
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Examples of "tritheism" in Sentences
- Otherwise tritheism would have been the inevitable result.
- Besides monophysitism, Philoponus 'name is associated with the doctrine of tritheism.
- But in the Pagan and Oriental religions this trinity was nothing else but a tritheism.
- As to the charge of tritheism, Alston opines that “Swinburne embraces a fairly straightforward form of tritheism” (55).
- He adds however, that anyone seeking to make the doctrine intelligible, is inevitably going to tilt towards either modalism or tritheism.
- For if you say that the F is divine or a god, and the S is divine or a god, and the HS is divine or a god, then you are committed to tritheism.
- As they aim to be monotheistic, each variant of this approach has a unique way of undercutting the inference from three divine persons to tritheism.
- The views seem to range from tritheism, to the idea that the Trinity is an event, to something that differs only slightly, or only in emphasis, from pro-Nicene
- According to tritheism, on the other hand, the divine persons are each distinct individual persons which are so closely related that they together count as a single thing in some fashion.
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