Monarchianism

The naive view that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were successive activities and revelations of one God thereby suggesting that the LORD God Father suffered upon the cross and was crucified by man.  This teaching is also known as Modalism, or in the derogatory sense, Patripassianism.1

Monarchian Teachers2:

Dynamic Monarchians

Theodotus the Leatherworker, c. 185, Byzantium/Rome

Theodotus the Banker, c. 199, Rome

Artemon, c. 210, Rome

Paul of Samosata, c. 260-68, Antioch

Modalist Monarchians

Noetus, c. 200, Smyrna

Praxeas, c. 200, Asia/Rome

Epigonus, c. 200, Rome

Sabellius, c. 215, Rome

 

1Ferguson, Everett. Church History Volume One: From Christ to Pre-Reformation. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005, 144.

2Ibid.

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