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Trinitarian controversy — in the history of Christian Churches were the controversies on how the Persons of the Holy Trinity relate to one another. Most important are: Modalist controversy (Sabellianism) (since 2nd century) Arian controversy (4-5th century) Filioque controversy; Socinian controversy (19th century)
The early history of the controversy must be pieced together from about 35 documents found in various sources. The Trinitarian historian Socrates of Constantinople reports that Arius first became controversial under the bishop Alexander of Alexandria, when Arius formulated the following syllogism:
The Socinian controversy in the Church of England (sometimes called the First Socinian controversy to distinguish it from a debate around 1800 mainly affecting Protestant nonconformists; and also called the Trinitarian controversy [1]) was a theological argument on christology carried out by English theologians for around a decade from 1687.
Within the classical trinitarian view, there is only one ad extra divine work. However, at the same time one can make distinctions in the works of God according to the persons of God, thus there are three modes of working in the one divine work, the order of the works of God in history reflecting the eternal relations of begetting and procession.
The Trinitarians, formally known as the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Latin: Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et Captivorum; abbreviated OSsT), is a mendicant order of the Catholic Church for men founded in Cerfroid, outside Paris, in the late 12th century.
Trinitarian (Homoousian) doctrines were vigorously upheld by Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria, who insisted that Jesus (God the Son) was "same in being" or "same in essence" with God the Father. Arius dissented: "If the Father begat the Son, then he who was begotten had a beginning in existence, and from this it follows there was a time when ...
The Trinitarian controversy [ edit ] The controversy within the Church of England to which Clarke was a major contributor had been initiated by George Bull , with his publication in 1685 of views on the opinions of the Church Fathers before the First Council of Nicaea (325 AD).
The tracts on the Trinitarian controversy include the following reprints (dates of original publication are added) : ' The Nature and Consequences of Enthusiasm considered ... in a letter to Mr. Tong, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Reynolds' (four ministers who had supported the subscribing party at the Salters' Hall conference), 1719; a ...