Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The belief that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate and distinct gods, heretical in orthodox Christianity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that there are three Gods, specifically that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.
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- noun A
belief in threegods . - noun Any of several forms of
Christianity that deny theTrinity .
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- noun (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods
Etymologies
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Examples
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He adds however, that anyone seeking to make the doctrine intelligible, is inevitably going to tilt towards either modalism or tritheism.
Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009
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As they aim to be monotheistic, each variant of this approach has a unique way of undercutting the inference from three divine persons to tritheism.
Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009
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The views seem to range from tritheism, to the idea that the Trinity is an event, to something that differs only slightly, or only in emphasis, from pro-Nicene
Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009
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As to the charge of tritheism, Alston opines that “Swinburne embraces a fairly straightforward form of tritheism” (55).
Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009
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According to tritheism, on the other hand, the divine persons are each distinct individual persons which are so closely related that they together count as a single thing in some fashion.
Philosophy and Christian Theology Murray, Michael 2008
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Besides monophysitism, Philoponus 'name is associated with the doctrine of tritheism.
John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007
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For if you say that the F is divine or a god, and the S is divine or a god, and the HS is divine or a god, then you are committed to tritheism.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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For if you say that the F is divine or a god, and the S is divine or a god, and the HS is divine or a god, then you are committed to tritheism.
Not Three Gods 2005
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But in the Pagan and Oriental religions this trinity was nothing else but a tritheism.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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Otherwise tritheism would have been the inevitable result.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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