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nontrinitarianism
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Nontrinitarianism is a form of Christianity that rejects the Christian theology of the Trinity—the belief that God is three distinct hypostases or persons who are coeternal, coequal, and indivisibly united in one being, or essence (from the Ancient Greek ). Certain religious groups that emerged during the Protestant Reformation have historically been known as antitrinitarian.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Beliefs
- Modern Christian groups
- History
- Early Christianity
- 7th-century Islam
- Following the Reformation
- Points of dissent
- Scriptural support
- Questions about co-equal deity of Jesus
- Matthew 26:39
- John 1:1
- John 10:30
- John 10:33
- John 20:28–29
- 2 Corinthians 13:14
- Philippians 2:5–6
- Hebrews 9:14
- Terminology
- Holy Spirit
- Unitarian
- Binitarianism
- Modalist groups
- Latter-day Saint movement
- Other groups
- Relationship with mainstream Christianity
- Ecumenism
- Heresy and apostasy
- Specific groups' relationships with Nicene Christianity
- Pentecostalism
- Mormonism
- Inter-religious dialogue beyond Christianity
- Arguments for the pagan origins of the Trinity
- Hellenic influences
- Christian groups with nontrinitarian positions
- Early Christian
- Unitarian and Universalism
- Latter Day Saints
- Bible Students and splinter groups
- Sacred Name movement
- Oneness Protestant groups
- World Wide Church of God splinter groups
- New religious movements
- Other Nontrinitarians
- Country-specific
- People
- See also
- Citations
- Further reading
Nontrinitarianism is a form of Christianity that rejects the Christian theology of the Trinity—the belief that God is three distinct hypostases or persons who are coeternal, coequal, and indivisibly united in one being, or essence (from the Ancient Greek ). Certain religious groups that emerged during the Protestant Reformation have historically been known as antitrinitarian.
According to churches that consider the decisions of ecumenical councils final, trinitarianism was definitively declared to be Christian doctrine at the 4th-century ecumenical councils, that of the First Council of Nicaea (325), which declared the full divinity of the Son, and the First Council of Constantinople (381), which declared the divinity of the Holy Spirit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nontrinitarianism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.