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Definition of Tritheism

1. Noun. (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods.

Definition of Tritheism

1. n. The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.

Definition of Tritheism

1. Noun. A belief in three gods ¹

2. Noun. Any of several forms of Christianity that deny the Trinity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tritheism

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Literary usage of Tritheism

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

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"... and goodness cannot fail of choosing the same means for the accomplishment of the same ends. III. Three beings, tritheism. , , .r, ..."

2. The Literature of the Church of England Indicated in Selections from the by Richard Cattermole (1844)
"... tritheism. THE unanimous sense of the Catholic doctors of the Church, for the first three ages of Christianity, concerning the article of the Trinity, ..."

3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1868)
"... A Vindication of the Holy and Eeer-blessed Trinity,' $.c. By a Divine of the Church of England (R. South). London, 1693. 4. tritheism charged upon Dr. ..."

4. The Divine Trinity: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle (1911)
"The Arians and Semi-Arians escaped the formal charge of tritheism, because they represented the Logos as a creature of the Father, and the Holy Ghost as a ..."

5. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"... tritheism—Explanation of the Incarnation. There is also unquestionably a certain other [head of the hydra,1 namely, the heresy] of the ..."

6. An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State and the by Samuel Noble (1851)
"tritheism the Alternative of the True Doctrine of the Trinity. ABUNDANT proof has been now given, in the preceding PARTS of this SECTION, as I Trust will be ..."

7. An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State and the by Samuel Noble (1851)
"tritheism the Alternative of the True Doctrine of the Trinity. ABUNDANT proof has been now given, in the preceding PARTS of- this SECTION, as I Trust will ..."

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