Definition of Modalist

1. n. One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity.

Definition of Modalist

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to modalism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Modalist

1. a believer in modalism [n -S] - See also: modalism

Medical Definition of Modalist

1. One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modalist

modal auxiliary
modal case
modal cases
modal logic
modal scale
modal stacking
modal value
modal verb
modal verbs
modalise
modalised
modalises
modalising
modalism
modalisms
modalist (current term)
modalists
modalities
modality
modally
modals
modaraba
modarabas
modchip
modchips
moddable
modded
modder
modderite
modders

Literary usage of Modalist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Protestant Dictionary: Containing Articles on the History, Doctrines, and by Charles Henry Hamilton Wright, Charles Neil (1904)
"... for the devil in Rome : he expelled prophecy and introduced heresy ; he put to flight the Paraclete and crucified the Father"). Whether the modalist ..."

2. The Moral Law: Or, The Theory and Practice of Duty; an Ethical Text-book by Edward John Hamilton (1902)
"The pure syllogism which alone is given in modern books is a secondary and verbal form of thought. OPINIONS AND REVIEWS. " The modalist ..."

3. The Perceptionalist, or, mental science by Edward J. Hamilton (1899)
"THE modalist is evidently the work of a writer who has studied logic with great care and pleasure, and I think will prove a valuable text-buck with the ..."

4. Early Christian Doctrine by Leighton Pullan (1905)
"Sabellius taught the most complete and systematic form of modalist ... His influence was so important that Catholics in the East generally called modalist ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"... Series of Outlines; Greek Philosophy; modalist; Mechanism and Personality; Philosophical Review, etc. 16 Vols. ame Thérèse, *La Famille de ..."

6. An Introduction to the Creeds and to the Te Deum by Andrew Ewbank Burn (1899)
"pointed out, was that the Father suffered, a doctrine abhorrent to Christian common sense. Praxeas was the first of these modalist ..."

7. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1892)
"... He is essentially and exclusively man'. In the one case His Personality is divine, in the other human. Now there is clear proof of a strong modalist ..."

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