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noun səˈbɛlɪənsəˈbɛliən A member of a group of Oscan-speaking peoples of ancient Italy, including the Sabines and Samnites. Example sentencesExamples - For some time the land had been conquered by second-wave Indoeuropean populations such as a type of Sabellians called Bruttii.
- The Umbrians lived to the north of the Sabellians; they are said to have been the oldest people of Italy.
adjective səˈbɛlɪənsəˈbɛliən Relating to the Sabellians. Example sentencesExamples - Strictly speaking the Samnite tribes were Sabellian, and their language, Oscan, a Sabellian dialect.
- Using a variety of archaeological and literary sources, Leonardis examines the conflicts between the native Sabellian population of south Italy and the long-established and dominant Greek presence in Magna Graecia.
Origin From Latin Sabellus + -ian. Rhymes Chellean, Machiavellian, Orwellian, Trevelyan, triskelion adjective səˈbɛlɪənsəˈbɛliən Relating to the teachings of Sabellius (fl. c.220 in North Africa), who developed a form of the modalist doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not truly distinct but merely aspects of one divine being. Example sentencesExamples - So while the Sabellian doctrine may preserve a sense in which the nature of Christ can be adequately expressed in ordinary experience-describing language, it is difficult to see how the ‘incarnation strategist’ can resort to it.
- On the other hand, the Sabellian heresy loses a proper conception of distinction among the persons by speaking of God as singular, alone, solitary, and the like.
- We do not make a Sabellian error simply for the fact that Sabellian modalism is Unitarian, and not Trinitarian.
- In particular, he defended the vital biblical doctrine of the Trinity against the Arian Heresy which denied the deity of Christ, and later against the Sabellian Heresy which denied the distinctness of the three Persons.
noun səˈbɛlɪənsəˈbɛliən A follower of the teachings of Sabellius. Example sentencesExamples - Dionysius exemplifies the concern of the East to do greater justice to the distinction and reality of the Three within the One than did the Sabellians or even the other orthodox theologians of the West.
- He was presbyter of the church of Antioch, where he wrote a confession of faith in opposition to the Sabellians.
Derivatives noun Sabellianism emphasized the fact that God is one, wrongly concluding that in the Godhead there is a single principle or rule. Example sentencesExamples - To illustrate, the early church heresy of Sabellianism understood John 1: 1c to read, ‘and the Word was the God’; while the early church heresy of Arianism understood John 1: 1c to read, ‘and the word was a God.’
- Sabellianism, the doctrine that the Persons of the Trinity are roles that a single divine being plays either simultaneously or successively, is commonly thought to entail that the Father is the Son.
nounsəˈbelēənsəˈbɛliən A member of a group of Oscan-speaking peoples of ancient Italy, including the Sabines and Samnites. Example sentencesExamples - The Umbrians lived to the north of the Sabellians; they are said to have been the oldest people of Italy.
- For some time the land had been conquered by second-wave Indoeuropean populations such as a type of Sabellians called Bruttii.
adjectivesəˈbelēənsəˈbɛliən Relating to the Sabellians. Example sentencesExamples - Using a variety of archaeological and literary sources, Leonardis examines the conflicts between the native Sabellian population of south Italy and the long-established and dominant Greek presence in Magna Graecia.
- Strictly speaking the Samnite tribes were Sabellian, and their language, Oscan, a Sabellian dialect.
Origin From Latin Sabellus + -ian. adjectivesəˈbɛliənsəˈbelēən Relating to the teachings of Sabellius (fl. c.220 in North Africa), who developed a form of the modalist doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not truly distinct but merely aspects of one divine being. Example sentencesExamples - So while the Sabellian doctrine may preserve a sense in which the nature of Christ can be adequately expressed in ordinary experience-describing language, it is difficult to see how the ‘incarnation strategist’ can resort to it.
- On the other hand, the Sabellian heresy loses a proper conception of distinction among the persons by speaking of God as singular, alone, solitary, and the like.
- In particular, he defended the vital biblical doctrine of the Trinity against the Arian Heresy which denied the deity of Christ, and later against the Sabellian Heresy which denied the distinctness of the three Persons.
- We do not make a Sabellian error simply for the fact that Sabellian modalism is Unitarian, and not Trinitarian.
nounsəˈbɛliənsəˈbelēən A follower of the teachings of Sabellius. Example sentencesExamples - He was presbyter of the church of Antioch, where he wrote a confession of faith in opposition to the Sabellians.
- Dionysius exemplifies the concern of the East to do greater justice to the distinction and reality of the Three within the One than did the Sabellians or even the other orthodox theologians of the West.
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