- Marcellus of Ancyra by Lindsay Webster
... from God that would ultimately revert to God in the final judgment. Marcellus practically denied all distinction between Father and Son, thus teaching a virtual Sabellianism (see Sabellius ) that proved embarrassing to his orthodox defenders. His views were eventually condemned.
- monarchianism by Chloe Palmer
... for his manifestations, or modes; Christ is one of these. Because of the consequent implication that God the Father must have died on the cross, they were called Patripassians . Sabellius fully developed modalism.
- Sabellius by Calvin Wilson
... of "essential Trinity," Sabellius advanced the doctrine of the "economic Trinity." God, he held, was one indivisible substance, but with three fundamental activities, or modes, appearing successively as the Father (the creator and lawgiver), as the Son (the redeemer), and as the Holy Spirit (the maker of life and the divine presence within men). The ...
- Calixtus I, Saint by Nicolas Chapman
... the chief monarchianist, Sabellius. His other important action, to grant absolution under conditions of true contrition to certain classes of sinners (apostates, murderers, adulterers), considered by many as unforgivable, was important in the development of the church's doctrine of penance. Calixtus died in the reign of Alexander Severus and may have been a ...
- Sabellianism by Webster's
... n.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.