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English
Etymology
From tetra- + theism.
Pronunciation
Noun
tetratheism (uncountable)
- A belief in four gods.
- (Christianity) The belief that there are four elements in the Christian Godhead—the three hypostases (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) of the Trinity and a divine essence out of which each of these originates.
2002, Hans Hauben, “On the Invocation of the 'Holy and Consubstantial Trinity' in Byzantine Oath and Dating Formulas”, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, volume 139, Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 160:[…] "consubstantial Trinity" could have been a reaction against the supposed heresy of […] Damian […] who was accused of "tetratheism" (or "tetradism", distinguishing four different entities in the Godhead), a response to, but as it seems a variant of, the very influential "tritheism" of John Philoponus (distinguishing three Deities in the Trinity) […]
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References
- “tetratheism”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Tetratheism in Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, London, W. & R. Chambers, 1907. p. 1003.
- Tetratheism in Canney, Maurice A. An Encyclopaedia of Religions, London, G. Routledge, 1921. p. 351. →OCLC.
- Hook, Julius N. The Grand Panjandrum and 2,699 Other Rare, Useful, and Delightful Words and Expressions. Revised and expanded. New York: Collier Books, 1991. p. 132. →ISBN.
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