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(mə-när′kē-ə-nĭz′əm) n. Any of several Christian doctrines of the second and third centuriesadthat attempted to maintain monotheism and the unity of the Godhead, thereby denying the independent hypostasis of God the Son. Monarchianism was condemned as heretical by the Christ...
it clung to the numerical unity of the deity. Two types of Monarchianism developed: theDynamic(orAdoptionist) and the Modalistic (orSabellian). Monarchianism emerged during the 2nd century and circulated into the 3rd century; it was generally regarded as aheresyby the mainstream of Christian...
Sabellianism, Christian heresy that was a more developed and less naive form of Modalistic Monarchianism (see Monarchianism); it was propounded by Sabellius (fl. c. 217–c. 220), who was possibly a presbyter in Rome. Little is actually known of his life because the most detailed inf...