Citations:tetratheism

English citations of tetratheism

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1. • 1865, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, A History of Christian Doctrine, Volume 1, 3rd Edition, page 377,

     Roscellin was accused of tritheism, and Gilbert of Poictiers of Damian's old heresy of tetratheism.

   • 1908, Walter Frederic Adeney, The Greek and Eastern churches, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 504:

     […] Tetratheists […] teaching of Damianus […] patriarch of Alexandria […] recognised first the essential personality of the one substance, God in Himself, and then a separate individuality for each of the Three Persons of the Trinity. His opponent, Peter of Calinicus, would make him push his argument further, and so come to have a separate divinity for each property of God, a perfect pantheon, if he would be consistent with his root principle.

   • 1996, Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology, page 88,

     From this it follows that the divine essence is not an independent existence alongside of the three persons. It has no existence outside of and apart from the three persons. If it did, there would be no true unity, but a division that would lead into tetratheism.

   • 2002, Hans Hauben, “On the Invocation of the 'Holy and Consubstantial Trinity' in Byzantine Oath and Dating Formulas”, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, volume 139, Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 160:

     […] "consubstantial Trinity" could have been a reaction against the supposed heresy of […] Damian […] who was accused of "tetratheism" (or "tetradism", distinguishing four different entities in the Godhead), a response to, but as it seems a variant of, the very influential "tritheism" of John Philoponus (distinguishing three Deities in the Trinity) […]

   • 2004, Herman Bavinck, edited by John Bolt and John Vriend, Reformed Dogmatics, volume 2, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, page 293:

     When in addition the divine being is viewed in a Platonic-realistic sense, tritheism turns into tetratheism, an error with which Damian of Alexandria was charged.

   • 2004, Herman Bavinck, edited by John Bolt and John Vriend, Reformed Dogmatics, volume 2, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, page 299:

     Excessive realism, on the other hand, associates the word “essence” with some subsistent thing that stands behind or above the persons and so leads to tetratheism or Sabellianism.

   • 2005, John Farrelly, The Trinity : rediscovering the central Christian mystery, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 104:

     The Council of Rheims in 1148 (DS 745) rejected a distinction between the persons and the divine essence and the view that there is some distinction between that by which God is God (divinitas) and God himself that some accused Gilbert de la Porrée of holding. The Fourth Council of the Lateran (1215) (DS 803-805) condemned the view of Joachim of Fiore that the divine essence and three persons constituted a quaternity.