MONARCHIANISM

(Louis Berkhof, A History of Christian Doctrines, 77-80 <<>> 58-61)

Rise of Monarchianism

(Monarchianism)

()

Dynamic Monarchianism

(Ebionites) (Unitarianism)
(Alogi) (Seeburg)
(Victor)
(Theodotus of Byzantium) (Artemon
) <<>>
(Little Labyrinth)

Paul of Samosata

(Paul of
Samosata)
(homoousios, co-substantial) (Godhead)
(identified with God)

(nature)
(person) (Godhead) (impersonal
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attributes) (Socinians)
(McGiffert)

Modalistic Monarchianism: Sabellianism

(modes)
(Patripassianism)

(Sabellianism)

Praxeas abd Noetus

(Praxeas)
(Hippolytus) (Noetus of Smyrna)
(God)

()
(He said that Christ is
Himself the Father, and that the Father Himself was born and suffered and died.)
(mode of being) (became)

(He of Himself)
(of another) ()

Sabellius

(unity of the divine essence) (plurality of its manifestations)

(one divine essence)

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Revised from Louis Berkhof, History of ChristianDoctrines, trans. CharlesChao.

Used by Permission of Reformation Translation Fellowship
P. O. Box 366, Peitou, Taipei 112, Taiwan.

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