different between trinity vs adoptionism

English

Etymology

trine +? -ity, from Old French trinité (French: trinité), from Latin tr?nit?s, from tr?ni (“three each”), from tr?s (“three”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n?ti/

Noun

trinity (plural trinities)

1. A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.

   • But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

2. The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.

Synonyms

• (group of three): threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio
• (independence of three): threeness; see also Thesaurus:threeness

Derived terms

• nontrinitarian
• nontrinitarianism
• trinitarian

Translations

See also

• binitarian
• binity (“twoness”)
• duality (“twoness”)
• quaternity (“fourness”)
• quinity (“fiveness”)
• Trinity
• Trinity College
• unitarian
• unity (“oneness”)

English

Etymology

adoption +? -ism

Noun

adoptionism (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) A form of Christianity which maintains that Jesus is divine only in the sense that God the Father adopted him, either at Jesus' birth, or at his death, as opposed to the orthodox understanding of the nature of the Trinity.

Derived terms

• adoptionist

Translations