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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN Praxeas was a Monarchian from Asia Minor who lived in the end of the 2nd century/beginning of the 3rd century. He believed in the unity of the Godhead and vehemently disagreed with any attempt at division of the personalities or personages of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Christian Church. He was opposed by Tertullian in his tract Against Praxeas (Adversus Praxean), and was influential in preventing the Roman Church from granting recognition to the New Prophecy. He came to Carthage before Tertullian had renounced the Catholic communion (c. 206-8). He taught Monarchian doctrine there. Tertullian remarks of him: "Paracletum fugavit et patrem crucifixit."- "Having driven out the Paraclete [Montanus], he now crucified the Father".
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN Priscillian was an extreme Monarchian and so was Commodian ("Carmen Apol.", 89, 277, 771). The "Monarchian Prologues" to the Gospels found in most old manuscripts of the Vulgate, were attributed by von Dobschütz and P. Corssen to a Roman author of the time of Callistus, but they are almost certainly the work of Priscillian. Beryllus, Bishop of Bostra, is vaguely said by Eusebius (Church History VI.33) to have taught that the Saviour had no distinct pre-existence before the Incarnation, and had no Divinity of His own, but that the Divinity of the Father dwelt in Him. Origen disputed with him in a council and convinced him of his error. The minutes of the disputation were known to Eusebius. It is not clear whether Beryllus was a Modalist or a Dynamist. About A.D. 375 the heresy was renewed at Neocaesarea and was attacked by Basil the Great. At the time of the Reformation, Sabellianism was reformulated by Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, to the effect that Christ and the Holy Spirit are merely representative forms of the one Godhead, the Father. In the 18th century, Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish mystical philosopher and scientist, also taught this doctrine, as did his disciples, who founded the New Church. Hippolytus of Rome knew Sabellius personally and mentioned him in his book Philosophumena. He knew Sabellius held this modalistic theology, yet he called Modal Monarchism the heresy of Noetus, not that of Sabellius implying it was first proposed by Noetus and not Sabellius. Sabellianism was embraced by Christians in Cyrenaica, to whom Demetrius, Patriarch of Alexandria, wrote letters arguing against this belief. Little is actually known of his life because the most detailed information about him was contained in the prejudiced reports of his contemporary opponent, Hippolytus, an anti-Monarchian Roman theologian. In Rome there was an active struggle between the Monarchians and Trinitarians. It assumes that God is a single Person - a Monarch with absolute authority and unique - hence the name Monarchianism. Isaiah 45:5-6 "I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other,… This sounds familiar in modern times since Islam has taken over this concept and is their basic declaration known as shahada. “la ilaha illa'llah”=“There is no God other than Allah” According to this Oneness principle, God appears in his relation with his creation in various modes. God the Father, God the Son who incarnated in human form, and God the Holy Spirirt who guides and empowers believers are three different modes or aspects of one monadic God, rather than three distinct persons. The three divine Persons he believed to be three different roles acted out by one divine Being, much as 36
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