Crossword clues for sabellian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sabellian \Sa*bel"li*an\, a. Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabellian \Sa*bel"li*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the heresiarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabellius, or to sabellianism.
Wikipedia
Sabellian can refer to
- Sabellian, a believer in Sabellianism, the nontrinitarian belief that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are different modes or aspects of one God, rather than three distinct persons in God Himself
- Sabellian languages, another name for the Osco-Umbrian languages
- Sabellians a collective ethnonym for a group of Italic peoples or tribes inhabiting central Italy at the time of the rise of Rome
Usage examples of "sabellian".
Often the martyr was regarded as an apostate by his brethren, and the Carpocratian Christian expired beneath the sword of the Roman executioners, excommunicated by the Ebionite Christian, the which Ebionite was anathema to the Sabellian.
Later Marcionites expressly taught Patripassianism, and have on that account been often grouped with the Sabellians.
Two walls were covered by paintings and photographs, all of them inartistically rendered, of groups of Sabellians, and a huge holograph of what seemed to be a very dead tree dominated one corner of the room.
He gave the Sabellian a quick kick in the ribs to keep him immobilized, then turned swiftly back to Monk.
The Sabellian responded by grabbing it before Monk could drag it out of reach, and with a quick jerk he pulled the whip out of Monk's hands.