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Definition of Modalism
1. Noun. (Christianity) The doctrine that the Trinity is composed of three modes or aspects of divine self-revelation, rather than three parts of God. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Modalism
1. an alternate doctrine of the Trinity [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modalism
Literary usage of Modalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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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