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Definition of Modalism

1. an alternate doctrine of the Trinity [n -S]

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Literary usage of Modalism

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1. History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack, Ebenezer Brown Speirs (1902)
"We have no sure evidence that the later so-called modalism ... Sophon A witness to a naive modalism is found also in the Acta ..."

2. The Divine Trinity: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle (1911)
"ARTICLE 2 THE modalism OF SABELLIUS 1. THE HERESY OF SABELLIUS.—Sabellius (about AD 250) was not an extreme Monarchi- anist; he recognized the existence of ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The true cause of the downfall of western modalism lay in the firm attitude assumed ... The first point may be regarded as a harking back to rigid modalism, ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"HH A modal proposition. modalism (mö'dal-izm), я. [< modal + -ism. ... Same as modalism. To object that the faith In the Holy Trinity obliges us to as ..."

5. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"Hippolytus looked on this new doctrine as itself essentially modalism, ... It is this refined modalism of the Roman compromise, which seemed to be ..."

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