AD 250 – 336 ), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of the persons of the Trinity (' God the Father ', ' God the Son ' ( Jesus of Nazareth ), and ' God the Holy Spirit ') and the precise nature of the Son of God as being a subordinate entity to God the Father.

Adoptionism was one position in a long series of Christian disagreements about the precise nature of Christ ( see Christology ) in the developing dogma of the Trinity, an attempt to explain the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth, both as man and God, and God the Father while confidently claiming to be uncompromisingly monotheistic.

A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the dynamic nature of tides.

The point of saturation depends on many variables such as ambient temperature and the precise chemical nature of the solvent and solute.

The precise differences in theology that caused the split with the Coptic Christians are still disputed, highly technical and mainly concerned with the nature of Christ.

His Ganimeds and Favourites tooke Bribes ", biographers continue to debate about Bacon's sexual inclinations and the precise nature of his personal relationships.

The precise nature of these invasions is not fully understood, the historical account being composed either hundreds of years after the events or not primarily concerned with historicity at all.

Whatever the precise nature of Hecate's transition into folklore in late Antiquity, she is now firmly established as a figure in Neopaganism, which draws heavily on folkloric traditions associating Hecate with ' The Wild Hunt ', witches, hedges and ' hedge-riding ', and other themes that parallel, but are not explicitly attested in, Classical sources.

Moreover, due to the overscanned nature of television video, the precise edges of the visible area of the screen varied from television set to television set, so characters near the expected border of the active screen area might be behind the bezel or off the edge of the screen.

Maxwell had however expressed some uncertainties surrounding the precise nature of his molecular vortices and so he began to embark on a purely dynamical approach to the problem.

There are, however, important unresolved doctrinal differences separating Roman Catholicism and Methodism, which include " the nature and validity of the ministry of those who preside at the Eucharist, the precise meaning of the Eucharist as the sacramental ‘ memorial ’ of Christ ’ s saving death and resurrection, the particular way in which Christ is present in Holy Communion, and the link between eucharistic communion and ecclesial communion.

Pending more clarity as to the precise nature of this contrast it is commonly characterized as a contrast between ' fortis ' and ' lenis ' consonants.

Later, ( Hirst, 2003, p. 427 ) a promised Charter amendment based on Fatah doctrine " that all Jews < nowiki > date restriction </ nowiki >... were to be entitled to Palestinian citizenship " failed due to doctrinal quarrels over the meaning of the precise nature of the proposed Democratic State.

The precise nature of the revision or critique of structuralism differs with each post-structuralist author, though common themes include the rejection of the self-sufficiency of the structures that structuralism posits and an interrogation of the binary oppositions that constitute those structures.

The precise nature of the contract was disputed, as can be seen below.

San Francisco Bay is thought to represent a down-warping of the Earth's crust between the San Andreas Fault to the west and the Hayward Fault to the east, though the precise nature of this remains under study.

The precise nature of the submarine type is a matter of some controversy ; some claim that it was merely a bell towed by a boat.

There are suggestions that the proliferation of poker machines has led to increased levels of problem gambling ; however, the precise nature of this link is still open to research.

In fact, the modern explanation of the uncertainty principle, extending the Copenhagen interpretation first put forward by Bohr and Heisenberg, depends even more centrally on the wave nature of a particle: Just as it is nonsensical to discuss the precise location of a wave on a string, particles do not have perfectly precise positions ; likewise, just as it is nonsensical to discuss the wavelength of a " pulse " wave traveling down a string, particles do not have perfectly precise momenta ( which corresponds to the inverse of wavelength ).

Despite significant academic interest, there is no consensus on its precise nature and consequently a final ' correct ' resolution has not yet been established.

The precise formulation of what are today recognized as correct statements of the laws of nature did not begin until the 17th century in Europe, with the beginning of accurate experimentation and development of advanced form of mathematics ( see scientific method ).

Anyone who knows him can describe his piercing nature and precise ways of expression through his own simple words of what Lev Davidovich Landau once meant:

The relative scarcity of fossil evidence prevents precise dating, but the most recent molecular study, based on multilocus sequence typing, suggest a Late Carboniferous – Early Permian origin of extant amphibians.

The precise origin of gambling is unknown.

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Cosmic Background Explorer in the early 1990s, few cosmologists have seriously proposed other theories of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.

Its precise origin is difficult to pinpoint due to amalgamations.

The precise origin of today ’ s hand salute remains unclear.

However, authorship, precise date of origin, and even unity of the text are still subject of debate, and will probably never be known with certainty.

Its precise origin has yet to be determined.

The precise origin of the ancient custom of decorating eggs is not known, although evidently the blooming of many flowers in spring coincides with the use of the fertility symbol of eggs — and eggs boiled with some flowers change their color, bringing the spring into the homes.

" Vienna " and the official German name Wien, and the names of the city in most languages, are thought to be derived from the Celtic word " windo -", meaning bright or fair – as in the Irish " fionn " and the Welsh " gwyn " – but opinions vary on the precise origin.

The precise origin of the phrases " bull market " and " bear market " are obscure.

The precise date of the origin of the Freising Manuscripts cannot be exactly determined ; the original text was probably written in the 9th century.

In the most recent Italian stories ( post-2000 ), Italian writers have generally reverted to Gottfredson's original conception of Eega as a future-man, though his precise year of origin is rarely mentioned.

Ingsoc (“ English Socialism ”) originated after the socialist party took over, but, because The Party continually rewrites history, it is impossible to establish the precise origin of English Socialism.

While there is general disagreement about precise origin of the wave, most stories of the phenomenon's origin, suggest that the wave first started appearing at North American sporting events during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The name of the county shares the same origin as that of the Cheboygan River, although the precise meaning is no longer known.

The precise origin of the name of the town is not known for certain.

The precise origin and intended meaning is unknown.

The name of the city shares the name of the county and probably has its origin from the Cheboygan River, although the precise meaning is no longer known.

There are conflicting sources as to the name's precise meaning, but it is of Paiute Indian origin and apparently is a reference to the water found in the area.

While the name's origin, honoring Seth Warner, is clear, the charter does nothing to specify precise usage.

Sometimes Hilbert's statements were not precise enough to specify a particular problem but were suggestive enough so that certain problems of more contemporary origin seem to apply, e. g. most modern number theorists would probably see the 9th problem as referring to the ( conjectural ) Langlands correspondence on representations of the absolute Galois group of a number field.

The precise meaning and origin of St Swithin's name is unknown, but it is largely considered to mean ' Pig Man '.

The precise origin of the phrase is uncertain.