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Meaning of "tritheism" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF TRITHEISM

ˈtraɪθɪˌɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRITHEISM

noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tritheism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRITHEISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tritheism

Tritheism is the belief that cosmic divinity is composed of three equally powerful entities. As generally conceived, three gods are envisioned as having separate domains and spheres of influence that coalesce into an omnipotent whole. In this primary respect, tritheism differs from cosmic dualism, which often posits two divine powers working in theologic or spiritual opposition. Most Christian denominations do not hold the universe as spiritually tritheistic, although some nontrinitarian denominations stray slightly from pure monotheism and the duality between God and Satan. The term has been sporadically used to spearhead heresy accusations, especially when employed against Christian sects promoting allegedly anathema conceptions of the Trinity.

Definition of tritheism in the English dictionary

The definition of tritheism in the dictionary is belief in three gods, esp in the Trinity as consisting of three distinct gods.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRITHEISM

archaism · atheism · cockneyism · cronyism · fideism · Hebraism · Judaism · McCarthyism · Mithraism · monotheism · Naziism · nimbyism · obeism · pantheism · Pharisaism · physitheism · reactionaryism · Trotskyism · voluntaryism · whiteboyism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRITHEISM

tritagonist · tritanopia · tritanopic · trite · tritely · triteness · triternate · tritheist · tritheistic · tritheistical · trithing · trithionate · trithionic acid · tritiate · tritiation · tritical · triticale · tritically · triticalness · triticeous

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRITHEISM

ableism · absenteeism · ageism · allotheism · antitheism · autotheism · cosmotheism · deism · ditheism · egotheism · henotheism · hylotheism · Manicheism · Nietzscheism · panentheism · polytheism · seism · tetratheism · theism · zootheism

Synonyms and antonyms of tritheism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tritheism» into 25 languages

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The translations of tritheism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tritheism» in English.
zh

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三神论
1,325 millions of speakers
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triteismo
570 millions of speakers
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tritheism
510 millions of speakers
hi

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tritheism
380 millions of speakers
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tritheism
280 millions of speakers
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тритеизм
278 millions of speakers
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tritheism
270 millions of speakers
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tritheism
260 millions of speakers
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trithéisme
220 millions of speakers
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Tritisme
190 millions of speakers
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Tritheismus
180 millions of speakers
ja

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tritheism
130 millions of speakers
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삼신론
85 millions of speakers
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Tritheism
85 millions of speakers
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tritheism
80 millions of speakers
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tritheism
75 millions of speakers
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त्रस्तवाद
75 millions of speakers
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tritheism
70 millions of speakers
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triteismo
65 millions of speakers
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triteizmu
50 millions of speakers
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тритеїзм
40 millions of speakers
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triteism
30 millions of speakers
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τριθεισμός
15 millions of speakers
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tritheism
14 millions of speakers
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tritheism
10 millions of speakers
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tritheism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tritheism

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tritheism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRITHEISM»

Discover the use of tritheism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tritheism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tritheism, Charged Upon Dr. Sherlock's New Notion of the ...
And the Charge Made Good, in an Answer to the Defense of the Said Notion Against the Animadversions Upon Dr. Sherlock's Book, Entituled, A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity, Etc., by a Divine of the Church of ...
Robert South, 1695
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Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the ...
This book is about the contemporary debate among evangelicals on the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and the controversial issues surrounding the relationship between the divine Father and Son.
Kevin N. Giles, 2009
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The Crucial Points of the Major Items of the Lord's Recovery
Note—What is the heresy of tritheism? Modalism stresses the side of God being one to a heretical extreme by denying the coexistence and coinherence of the three of the Godhead. Tritheism, on the other hand, stresses the side of God being ...
Witness Lee, 1993
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A Grammar of Christian Faith: Systematic Explorations in ...
Tritheism maintains that there are really three gods, who may have a common essence but are nevertheless three different subjects or agents. One essence with three instances. While tritheism is easy to conceptualize, it is — as a historical ...
Joe R. Jones, 2002
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Creation Set Free: The Spirit as Liberator of Nature
Here the charge of tritheism is directed not against the multiple gods worshiped in pagan religion, but against a certain Christian doctrine of God. The Cappadocians and hence also Gregory had to respond to the objection that they had ...
Sigurd Bergmann, 2005
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Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Suffering-Zwingli
Tritheism as a heresy of dogma. — (a) Although aberrations from the orthodox doctrine were in the East towards a modalistic Monarchian- ism (Sabellianism) rather than tritheism, it was in the East — among the Greek-speaking theologians  ...
James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, 1922
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The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards
More importantly, both also want to avoid the heresy of tritheism. In their opinion, to apply the human sense of personhood unequivocally to the "three subsisting beings" of the Trinity would be to imply that there were three rational natures and  ...
William J. Danaher, 2004
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The Truth Concerning the Trinity
To press the “three Persons” in the Godhead too far will surely “lead to Tritheism.” Whoever does this spontaneously falls into the heretical extreme of tritheism. Tritheism does not have the safeguard of the aspect of the one. But the Bible says  ...
Witness Lee, 1994
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Lectures in Systematic Theology
It goes on to say, "The entire three persons are coeternal and coequal with one another, so that ... we worship complete unity in Trinity and Trinity in unity." The doctrine of the trinity must be distinguished from both Tritheism and Sabellianism.
Henry Clarence Thiessen, Vernon D. Doerksen, 1979
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Peter of Callinicum: Anti-Tritheist Dossier
The writing, then, is not directed against the Tritheists (as Baumstark's title wrongly suggests) but against people accused of Sabellianism, the heresy diametrically opposed to Tritheism. The author's aim is not to refute either Tritheism or ...
R. Y. Ebied, A. van Roey, Lionel R. Wickham, 1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRITHEISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tritheism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Announcing My Newest Book: Counterfeit Christianity…
... Arianism, and Nestorianism,” “Contesting the Trinity: Subordinationism, Modalism, and Tritheism,” “Setting Grace Aside: Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism,” ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
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Must You Believe in the Doctrine of the Trinity to Be a Christian?
... revealed truth in the light of heresies (subordinationism, adoptionism, modalism, tritheism, etc.). Once the doctrine of the Trinity was constructed and embraced ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
3
What's Up With Images of Muhammad
He also challenged Christianity's understanding of monotheism, rejecting the Trinity (as he understood it) as tritheism, the belief of three separate gods. «Christian Post, Jan 15»
4
Social Trinitarian Pushback
... claims about the being of God, and questions about whether social Trinitarians can do justice to the unity of God, and avoid falling into tritheism (337). «First Things, Aug 14»
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If the Holy Spirit is a Person of His Own, Then Why Isn't He Sitting on …
They allege that it seems like tritheism—the worship of three gods. Christians vehemently deny this; yet they contend that the Father is God, Jesus Christ is God, ... «Patheos, Jul 13»
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Patheos Book Club: Do Jews, Christians and Muslims Worship the …
... doctrine of the Trinity outright, or understand it in ways that are closer to the monotheism of Jews or Muslims than to the borderline tritheism of some Christians. «Patheos, Dec 12»
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Thank God for heresy!
... Nestorianism, Eutychianism, Pelagianism (including semi-Pelagianism) and Tritheism. All are alive and well and most “mainline” Christians consider churches ... «Patheos, Oct 12»
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Wrestling with the Trinity: Truth, Myth or Metaphor?
To many outside Christianity, the Trinity seems a lot like polytheism or at least tritheism, some kind of divine triumvirate as it were. If we can manage to bracket ... «Patheos, May 12»
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Is there hierarchy in the Trinity? Part 1
... ontological distinctions (I avoid the English word “differences” to avoid implying that they fell into tritheism which they strenuously denied) within the Trinity. «Patheos, Dec 11»
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On Christmas, Christianity And Islam: Basic Similarities And …
Both Tritheism which according to Wikipedia is the “the belief that there are three distinct, powerful gods, who form a triad” and trinity (one God – three divine ... «Awate, Dec 10»
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