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	Sabellius - LoveToKnow 1911
		In the West, however, the influence of Sabellius seems never to have been important; in the East, on the other hand, after the middle of the 3rd century his doctrine found much acceptance, first in the Pentapolis and afterwards in other provinces.
		The teaching of Sabellius himself was very closely allied to the older Modalism ("Patripassianism") of Noetus and Praxeas, but was distinguished from it by its more careful theological elaboration and by the account it took of the Holy Spirit.
		To explain how one and the same being could have various forms of manifestation, he pointed to the tripartite nature of man (body, soul, spirit), and to the sun, which manifests itself as a heavenly body, as a source of light and also as a source of warmth.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sabellius (1368 words)

	Sabellius - Encyclopedia.com
		He went to Rome, became the leader of those who accepted the doctrine of modalistic monarchianism, and was excommunicated by Pope St. Calixtus I in 220.
		(6) Sabellius was a Christian theologian who was excommunicated in 220 by Pope St. Calixtus for the heretical doctrine that God was one...
		What is perhaps more surprising is the relative paucity of references to specific christological heresies (Sabellius, Arius, Nestorius, et al.) in Cajetan's writings, in view of his avowed intention of developing his Christology in dialogue...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Sabelliu.html (487 words)

	Sabellianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is attributed to Sabellius, who taught a form of this doctrine in Rome in the second century.
		He knew Sabellius disliked Trinitarian theology, yet he called Modal Monarchism the heresy of Noetos, not that of Sabellius.
		However, during the controversy surrounding Paul of Samosata, the Patriarch of Antioch who was deposed in 268 for his Christology, Sabellius' name was mentioned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabellianism (360 words)

	Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal ...
		Sabellius, heretic, after whom the sect of the Sabellians was called (see preceding art.).
		Sabellius, convinced for a time, was again led astray by Callistus.
		In fact, during the episcopate of Zephyrinus, Callistus, Sabellius and the pope seem to have united in persistently opposing Hippolytus.
	www.ccel.org /search?category=definitions&qu=S&term=Sabellius%2C+heretic (252 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monarchians
		Sabellius was apparently still in Rome when Hippolytus wrote the Philosophumena (between 230 and 235).
		Sabellius (or at least his followers) may have considerably amplified the original Noetianism.
		It would seem that the difference between Sabellius and his opponents lay mainly in his insisting on the unity of hypostasis after the emission of the Word as Son.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10448a.htm (2946 words)

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		Sabellius was rightly condemned as a heretic (
		Sabellius’ arguments for modalism were much more sophisticated and convincing than that of his predecessors.
		Sabellius embraces the Holy Spirit in his speculation, and reaches a trinity, not a simultaneous trinity of essence, however, but only a successive trinity of revelation.
	www.christiandefense.org /oneness_c.hstoy.htm (3012 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 684 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Sabellius broached his doctrines they excited great commotions among the Christians of the Pentapolis ; and both parties appealed to Dionysius of Alexandria, and endeavoured to secure him to their side.
		Indeed it is probable, from the scanty notices we have of Sabellius, that his heresy was not broached till just before his death.
		The heresy of Sabellius approximated very nearly to that of Noetus, so that Augustin wonders that Epiphanius should have distinguished the Sabellian heresy from the Noetian: but Sabellius did not affirm that the Father suffered, though the name of Patripassions was given to his followers (Athanas.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3018.html (774 words)

	SABELLIANISM (This Rock: January 1994)
		Sabellius said that in God there are three modes in the same way that the sun is bright, round, and hot.
		It is not clear whether the modes were thought of as things between which God switched back and forth (as in the mask and water analogies) or whether they were qualities exhibited simultaneously (as in the relationship and sun examples).
		Sabellius was excommunicated by Pope Callistus I (c.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1994/9401hotm.asp (592 words)

	s. k. hagin presents A Still Point: Chapter 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I watched enraptured as Sabellius showed her machine the connections she understood – and then let it loose to find the connections that were beyond her grasp.
		The next night I gave Sabellius a key to the house and told her where I’d been hiding the cubes and the prototype.
		I heard Sabellius at the back door before dusk had fully given way to the night’s darkness, her key not quite able to find its way into the lock.
	home.comcast.net /~skhagin/AStillPoint-Ch6.html (2936 words)

	Modalism, Tritheism, or the Pure Revelation of the Triune God
		Sabellius was, by far, the most original, profound, and ingenious of the modalists.
		Sabellius’ fundamental thought is that the unity of God unfolds itself in the course of the world’s development in three forms or periods of revelation, and after the completion of redemption returns again into unity.
		[25] Sabellius taught that the revelation of the Son ends with the ascension and that the revelation of the Spirit goes on in regeneration and sanctification.
	www.contendingforthefaith.com /responses/booklets/modalism.html (8209 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Oneness Pentecostalism Profile
		Thus, the Nicene Creed was written at the Council of Nicaea in order to clearly promote the core doctrines of Christianity (including the belief that Jesus Christ is a distinct Person who is of one substance with the Father).
		Sabellius taught that the monotheistic God (called a monad) progressively revealed Himself through the offices of the Trinity.
		Significantly, Sabellius was excommunicated from the Church for his aberrant teachings.
	www.watchman.org /profile/onenesspro.htm (2547 words)

	Oneness Pentecostals: "Jesus Only" Pentecostals, refuting the errors
		Sabellius was a third century heretic who claimed that God was three only in relation to the world.
		Patripassionism is the belief that the Father had come to earth and died under the appearance of the Son [patri=father; passion=suffer].
		Sabellius taught that a divine monad, through a process of expansion projected itself successively in revelation as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
	www.eadshome.com /OnenessPentecostalism.htm (487 words)

	Early Church on Oneness
		Sabellius, "the existence of a divine monad (which he named the huiopater) which by a process of expansion projected itself successively in revelation as the Father, Son, H.Spirit".(Elwells Evangelical Dictionary of Theology p.727)
		Since Christ is believed to be not the Son, but the Father; since by them He is asserted to be in strictness a bare man, in a new manner, by those, again, Christ is proved to be God the Father Almighty...
		This latter is what Sabellius held, and he was judged a heretic.
	www.letusreason.org /Onenes22.htm (2137 words)

	The Doctrine of the Trinity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thus, the Nicene Creed was written at the Council of Nicaea in order to clearly promote the core doctrines of Christianity (including the belief that Jesus Christ is a distinct Person who is of one substance with the Father).
		Sabellius taught that the monotheistic God (called a monad) progressively revealed Himself through the offices of the Trinity.
		Significantly, Sabellius was excommunicated from the Church for his aberrant teachings.
	www.mercydrops.com /Trinity/Factsheet.htm (1959 words)

	Monarchianism, Sabellianism, Patripassianism, Modalism
		This doctrine was taught by the Roman Christian prelate Sabellius and is thus sometimes referred to as Sabellianism.
		It seems that Sabellius taught the existence of a divine monad (which he named Huiopator), which by a process of expansion projected itself successively in revelation as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
		Sabellius as well as the modalists preceding him shared the same view of the Logos as that of Paul of Samosata.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/monarchi.htm (866 words)

	Chapter 10
		Sabellius relied heavily upon Scripture, especially passages such as Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 44:6, and John 10:38.
		describes Sabellius' belief in this way: "His central proposition was to the effect that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the same person, three names thus being attached to one and the same being.
		As Commodian said, "The Father went into the Son, one God everywhere." [56] Similarly, Sabellius explained that the Logos was not the Son but was clothed by the Son.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/pentecostal/One-Ch10.htm (3306 words)

	s. k. hagin presents A Still Point: Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sabellius was probably already hiding in the shadows of my yard, waiting for Linda to leave.
		Linda waited for Sabellius and Elizabeth to go upstairs to my office, then leaned onto the table, her head resting in her hand.
		It’d be better than facing Sabellius when she comes downstairs.
	home.comcast.net /~skhagin/AStillPoint-Ch7.html (2473 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: United Pentecostal Church
		According to James Bjornstad in a recent issue of the Institute of Contemporary Christianity, Sabellius, a Latin theologian of the third century, taught that God was one person, not three, and that He appeared in modes or forms - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
		So, we could say that Sabellius was semi-modalistic in his heretical view of the Trinity.
		This ancient twisting of the Trinity has raised its head today in many cults, not the least of which is the United Pentecostal Church (U.P.C.).
	www.watchman.org /cults/upc.htm (491 words)

	Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Church History of Eusebius.: Chapter VI
		Hippolytus in speaking of him does not mention his birthplace, which causes Stokes to incline to the opinion that he was a native of Rome.
		We are told by Hippolytus that Callistus led Sabellius into heresy, but that after he became pope he excommunicated him in order to gain a reputation for orthodoxy.
		They are not to be confounded with the four books against Sabellius, addressed to Dionysius of Rome, and mentioned in chap.
	www.sacred-texts.com /chr/ecf/201/2010224.htm (484 words)

	Jesus Only or Oneness, Pentecostal Movement
		One of the most subtle forms of doctrinal deviation ever to infiltrate the Christian Church was known as Sabellianism (named after Sabellius, a Latin theologian of the third century).
		Sabellius taught that God was one Person, not three, and that He appeared in "modes" or "manifestations" - as the Father, as the Son, or as the Holy Spirit.
		For Sabelluis, however, the Father alone was truly God, the Son and the Spirit being repetitions of Himself in other "modes" or "manifestations." Sabellius was condemned for his views, his modalistic theology refuted, and the heresy that he spawned was rejected by the early Christian Church.
	www.biblefacts.org /cult/oneness.html (2073 words)

	God in Three Persons
		In the third century, Sabellius, a Libyan priest who was staying at Rome, invented a new one.
		Wherefore we clear ourselves of Sabellius, who says that the Father and the Son are the same [person].
		This latter is what Sabellius held, and he was judged a heretic.
	www.catholic.com /library/God_in_Three_Persons.asp (1749 words)

	Was the early church 'Oneness' Pentecostal?
		These two Popes were reportedly forceful advocates for this heresy: "The school of these heretics during the succession of such bishops, continued to acquire strength and augmentation, from the fact that Zephyrinus and Callistus helped them to prevail." (Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, Book 9, Chapter 2).
		Because Sabellius is the most famed of the modalists, Christians on first encountering 'Oneness' Pentecostals debate against Sabellian tenets remembered from theology text-books.
		"Sabellius also raves in saying that the Father is Son, and again, the Son Father, in subsistence One, in name Two; and he raves also in using as an example the grace of the Spirit.
	trisagionseraph.tripod.com /earlychurch.html (8378 words)

	Jacques Maritain Center: GC 4.7
		Hence it appears that the faith of the Catholic Church alone truly confesses generation in God, referring the generation of the Son to the fact of His receiving the divine nature of the Father.
		Arius further differs from Sabellius and Photinus in asserting that this generation was before the creation of the world, while they say that it was not before the Virgin birth.
		Sabellius however differs from Photinus in this, that Sabellius confesses Christ to be true God by nature, which neither Photinus nor Arius confesses; but Photinus says that He was a mere man, Arius that He was a sort of compound super-excellent creature, at once divine and human.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/gc4_7.htm (771 words)

	The Refutation of All Heresies, Book 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But Callistus perverted Sabellius himself, and this, too, though he had the ability of rectifying this heretic's error.
		For (at any time) during our admonition Sabellius did not evince obduracy; but as long as he continued alone with Callistus, he was wrought upon to relapse into the system of Cleomenes by this very Callistus, who alleges that he entertains similar opinions to Cleomenes.
		Sabellius, however, did not then perceive the knavery of Callistus; but he afterwards came to be aware of it, as I shall narrate presently.
	www.blackmask.com /books95c/refnine.htm (7743 words)

	False Doctrine of Modalism: As taught by the United Pentecostal church
		The error of modalistic monarchianism is in blindly focusing on the ONENESS of God passages, holding to a strict undefendable definition of oneness to the exclusion of the mass of Biblical proof of the distinction of God.
		United Pentecostals, like Sabellius focus solely on the oneness passages (Deut 6:4 and Jn 10:38) to the exclusion of the wealth of scripture that shows the oneness of God is best understood in terms of unity rather than a specific number!.
		Sabellius, like modern UPC Modalists, focused solely on the oneness passages (Deut 6:4 and Jn 10:38) to the exclusion of the wealth of scripture that shows the oneness of God is best understood in terms of unity rather than a specific number!
	www.bible.ca /trinity/trinity-modalism.htm (12238 words)

	The History of Christian Thought
		It was also called Sabellianism, from its main representative Sabellius.
		So you see this is not a dated issue but is something very important.
		Sabellius says: "The same is the Father, the same is the Son, the same is the Holy Spirit.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=2310&C=2317 (3041 words)

	THE ONENESS APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE
		Oneness teachings are much like those of a man named Sabellius, a third-century figure who was labeled a heretic by the Christian Church.
		Unlike the Church's belief that there is one God expressed in a unity of three distinct persons all having the attributes of God and claiming to be God, Sabellius taught that the Godhead was one person revealed in three different manifestations.
		Because of his beliefs, Sabellius was excommunicated from the Church.
	ezek27.truepath.com /oneness.html (4143 words)

	Newman Reader - Treatises of St. Athanasius, Vol. 2
		Whatever Sabellius taught, it should be noticed, that, in the reason which the Arian Macrostich alleges against his doctrine, it is almost implied that the divine nature of the Son suffered on the Cross.
		A subordinate difference was that the Samosatenes, Photinians, andc., considered our Lord to be really gifted with the true Word, whereas Arians did scarcely more than admit Him to be formed after its pattern.
		Hilary brings a number of these instances together with their respective texts, Marcellus, Photinus, Sabellius, Montanus, Manes; then he continues, "Omnes Scripturas sine Scripturæ sensu loquuntur, et fidem sine fide prætendunt.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/athanasius/volume2/file9.html (5443 words)

	The Authority of the Word of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		MONARCHIANISM WAS ALSO CALLED SABELLIANISM, FROM SABELLIUS, ITS MOST FAMOUS EXPONENT [6] WHO WAS TEACHING IN ROME during the later part of his life, ABOUT 215 A.D. THE DOMINANT SABELLIAN TENDENCY battled to DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST THE NEWER LOGOS-CHRISTOLOGY DOCTRINE.
		Sabellius said that FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT ARE EACH A "PROSOPON" (MANIFESTATION) OF ONE GOD.
		Kallistos had excommunicated Sabellius, the strong defender of Monarchianism, and strong pressure was being brought to bear by government and
	www.geocities.com /topbusilac/doctrine8.htm (280 words)

	Christian Heresy
		It made its way to Rome in the form of Sabellianism (due to Sabellius of Pentapolis in Cyrenaica)and for some time did not clash with traditional teaching and the papacy.
		After Sabellius' death in AD 257 modalistic monarchianism continued to flourish, particularly in the east in his homeland of Cyrenaica.
		Though just as modalistic monarchianism was being clamped down upon by the papacy, the dynamic form of monarchianism renewed its challenge.
	www.roman-empire.net /religion/heresy.html (2714 words)

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