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TRINITY<br />

&<br />

OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD<br />

Prof. M.M.Ninan<br />

Contents<br />

PREFACE<br />

I INTRODUCTION 1<br />

II MONARCHIANISM 25<br />

A: DYNAMIC MONARCHIANISM: ADOPTIONISM<br />

ARTERNON<br />

SHEPHERD OF HERMAS<br />

PAUL OF SAMOSATA<br />

SPANISH ADOPTIONISM 8TH -9TH C<br />

12TH CENTURY AND LATER: NEO-ADOPTIONISM<br />

B: MODALISTIC MONARCHIANISM = MODALISM.<br />

PATRIPASSIANISM<br />

SABELLIANISM<br />

III ARIANISM 46<br />

IV DOCETISM, EBIONISM & SUBORDINATIONISM 61<br />

A: DOCETISM<br />

B: EBIONISM<br />

C: SUBORDINATIONISM<br />

V COUNCIL OF NICEA 66<br />

VI PNEUMATOMACHIANISM OR 'COMBATORS AGAINST THE SPIRIT'. 74<br />

VII MONOPHYTISM 76<br />

A: APOLLINARIANISM<br />

B: EUTYCHIANISM<br />

VIII NESTORIANISM 79<br />

A: CYRIL AND HYPOSTATIC UNIION<br />

B: NESTORIUS<br />

IX COUNCIL OF CHALCEDONIA 100<br />

X SERVETUSISM 109<br />

XI SWEDENBORGISM 114<br />

XII MODERN MOVEMENTS ONENESS PENTECOSTALISM 120<br />

XIII SOCINIANISM 126<br />

XIV CHRISTIAN SCIENCE:THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, 128<br />

XV CHRISTADELPHIANS 131<br />

XVI JEHOVAH’S WITNESS 133<br />

XVIII THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS 137<br />

XVIII IGLESIA NI CRISTO 142<br />

XIX UNITARIAN AND UNIVERSALISTS 146<br />

APPENDIX I CLASSIFICATION BASED ON TRINITY RELATIONSHIP 149<br />

APPENDIX 2 THE TRIUNE BRAIN THEORY 152<br />

APPENDIX 3 MODERN CHRISTIAN GROUPINGS 159<br />

APPENDIX 4 SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENTS OF VARIOUS PROPONENTS 162<br />

APPENDIX 5<br />

SYNODAL CHRISTOLOGICAL CONFESSIONS<br />

OF THE NESTORIAN CHURCHES OF THE EAST 168<br />

APENDIX 6 CHRISTIAN GROUPS WITH NONTRINITARIAN POSITIONS 174<br />

APPENDIX 7 PROOF TEXTS SHOWING JESUS WAS NOT GOD 175<br />

AOOENDIX 8 CHRISTIAN HERESIES 176

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