Many other Trinitarian Christians also consider modesty extremely important, though considerable differences of opinion exist about its requirements and purposes.

In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians only ( excluding Nontrinitarian faiths ).

This Jesus ' Name doctrine is a point of contention between the UPCI and Trinitarian Christians.

They believe that mainstream Trinitarian Christians have been misled by long-held and unchallenged " traditions of men ".

Trinitarian Christians view Jesus as the human incarnation of the second person of the Trinity, known as God the Son.

However, the formula does not necessarily endorse the specific Nicene Trinitarian doctrine adopted at the 4th-century Council of Nicea and elaborated upon by later councils, and does not necessarily show that 1st-century Christians believed in the mysterious unity, equality, or co-eternity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

On this date, Theodosius I decreed that only the followers of Trinitarian Christianity were entitled to be referred to as Catholic Christians, while all others were to be considered to be heretics, which was considered illegal.

In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians only ( excluding Nontrinitarian faiths ).

While there have been theological debate over the nature of Jesus, Trinitarian Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate, God the Son, and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

While there have been theological debate over the nature of Jesus, Trinitarian Christians generally believe that Jesus is the Logos, God incarnate, God the Son, and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

To Trinitarian Christians ( which include Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and most but not all Protestant denominations ), God the Father is not at all a separate god from God the Son ( of whom Jesus is the incarnation ) and the Holy Spirit, the other Hypostases of the Christian Godhead.

The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is a conservative Trinitarian body of Christians that hold the deity, humanity, and atonement of Jesus ; that the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God ; and that salvation is through faith, repentance and following after Christ.

Verses like these are often used by Christians in Trinitarian theology to describe how God is revealed to the world and God's role in salvation.

* 325: The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, convened as a response to the Arian controversy, establishes the Nicene Creed, declaring the belief of orthodox Trinitarian Christians in the Holy Trinity.

While initially Arian Christians like other Gothic peoples, the Crimean Goths had fully integrated with the Trinitarian Roman Church by the 500's.

Full-orbed patripassianism denies Trinitarian distinctions, yet it is not heretical to say that God " feels " or " experiences " things, including nonphysical forms of suffering.

Dogmatic definitions by ecumenical councils, on the other hand, are significantly more common throughout history, including, for example, the Trinitarian and Christological dogmas of the early councils, the teachings on Grace, Justification, and the Sacraments by the Council of Trent, and most recently the definition of Papal Infallibility itself by Vatican I.

Athanasius ' name seems to have become attached to the creed as a sign of its strong declaration of Trinitarian faith.

Also there were Eusebius of Caesarea, Eusebius of Nicomedia and the young deacon Athanasius, who would become the champion of the Trinitarian dogma ultimately adopted by the council and spend most of his life battling Arianism.

During the 4th century, however, there was no real unity between church and state: In the course of the Arian controversy, leading Trinitarian bishops, such as Athanasius, Hilary of Poitiers, and Gregory of Nyssa, were exiled by Arian emperors, as were leading Arian and Anomoean theologians such as Aëtius.

It was afterwards used by the Trinitarian Fathers, and was later converted into a penitentiary.

During these formative years, doctrinal division developed and widened over traditional Trinitarian theology and the formula used at baptism, with some Pentecostal leaders claiming revelation or other insights pointing them toward the Oneness concept.

According to Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism and most forms of Protestantism, a baptism is not valid if the Trinitarian formula is not used in the administration of that sacrament.

Together with baptism, the Trinitarian formula is used in other prayers, rites, liturgies, and sacraments.

The Trinitarian Bible Society would fit in this division ; but " the Trinitarian Bible Society does not believe the Authorized Version to be a perfect translation, only that it is the best available translation in the English language ," and " the Society believes this text is superior to the texts used by the United Bible Societies and other Bible publishers, which texts have as their basis a relatively few seriously defective manuscripts from the 4th century and which have been compiled using 20th century rationalistic principles of scholarship.

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Generally in Christian theology, discipleship is a term used to refer to a disciple's transformation from some other World view and practice of life into that of Jesus Christ, and so, by way of Trinitarian theology, of God himself.

However, the Council of Chalcedon also insisted that hypostasis be used as it was in the Trinitarian definition: to indicate the person and not the nature as with Apollinarius.

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From the middle of the fourth century onwards the word came to be contrasted with ousia and used to mean " individual reality ," especially in the Trinitarian and Christological contexts.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

The Trinitarian historian Socrates of Constantinople reports that Arius ignited the controversy that bears his name when St. Alexander of Alexandria, who had succeeded Achillas as the Bishop of Alexandria, gave a sermon on the similarity of the Son to the Father.

The conflict between Arianism and Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal confrontation in the Church after the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Licinius.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

Many of them, notably the Goths and Vandals, adopted Arianism instead of the Trinitarian ( a. k. a. Nicene or orthodox ) beliefs that were dogmatically defined by the Catholic Church in the Nicene Creed.

In 515, the basilica became the center of a monastery built on land donated by Sigismund of Burgundy, the first king of the Burgundians to convert from Arianism to Trinitarian Christianity.

Among the ruling class, Trinitarian Christianity was replaced by Arianism under the Germanic kingdom of the Vandals, which was established in 430, when the Vandals crossed the Strait of Gibraltar.

Semi-Arianism is a name frequently given to the Trinitarian position of the conservative majority of the Eastern Christian Church in the 4th century, to distinguish it from strict Arianism.

Significantly, the initiation and leadership of a major proportion of the reform movements, especially those in the first half of the nineteenth century, came from men and women of New England birth or parentage and from either Trinitarian or Unitarian Congregationalism.

Jefferson remained a member of the Episcopal congregation near his home, but removed himself from those available to become godparents, because he was not sufficiently in agreement with the Trinitarian theology.

In accepting the Trinitarian views supported by the concept of hypostatic union, those present at the Council of Chalcedon rejected the views of the Arians, modalists, and Ebionites as heresies ( these views had also been rejected at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325 ).

However, while Islam relegates Jesus to a lesser status than God — " in the company of those nearest to God " in the Qur ' an, mainstream ( Trinitarian ) Christianity teaches without question that Jesus is God the Son, one of the three Hypostases ( common English: persons ) of Christianity's Holy Trinity, equally God as are God the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Steenberg, some of Augustine's Trinitarian conclusions appear to immanentize characteristics of theology in a manner improper to those divine things.

One of the most distinctive features of The Message's teaching is the rejection of both the Trinitarian view of the Godhead and also a rejection of the " Oneness " views held by those of the Oneness Pentecostals.