In a series of monographs he has published on early Christian beliefs ( Monarchianism, Trinity, Apostles'Creed ) and their reception in the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment and in contemporary theology.
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When Tertullian wrote, he himself was no longer in the Church; Monarchianism had sprung up again, but Tertullian does not mention its leaders at Rome, and directs his whole argument against his old enemy Praxeas.
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Sabellianism, Patripassianism, Modalistic Monarchianism, functionalism, Jesus Only, Father Only, and Oneness Pentecostalism are viewed as being derived from the Platonic doctrine that God was an indivisible Monad and could not be divided into three separate Persons.
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According to Kenneth Boa, Wierwille's teaching of Dynamic Monarchianism was a version of Adoptionism, a third century heresy, which held Jesus was a unique man who was specially filled with the power of God ( p . 241 ).
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Adoptionism is one of two main forms of monarchianism ( the other is modalism, which regards " Father " and " Son " as two historical or trinitarians claim that the doctrine implicitly denies it by denying the constant hypostatic union of the eternal Logos to the human nature of Jesus.
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By contrast, Sabellianism ( also known as modalism, modalistic monarchianism, or modal monarchism ) is the nontrinitarian belief that the Heavenly Father, Resurrected Son and Holy Spirit are different modes or aspects of one God, as perceived by the believer, rather than three distinct persons in God Himself.
