Montanism And the Primitive Church a Study in the Ecclesiastical History of Th
Montanism And the Primitive Church a Study in the Ecclesiastical History of Th
John De Soyres
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II. That, although the influence of Montanism in the development of the Trinitarian doctrine was slight, it was in favour of that side which is now acknowledged to have been orthodox and scriptural, Tertullian admits freely that the arguments he was briuo-ing forward were by no means universally received. " The simple (whom I will not call unAvise and unlearned) . , . Are startled at the oLKovo/xla on the ground that their very creed withdraws them from the world's plurality of gods to the one ...only true God, &c. "' This was a very natural difficulty. The attempt at a strict separation of Persons in the Divine Trias led to a system of subordination (as we have seen in our review of Justin) ^ according to which the Son was placed under the Father, and the Holy Spirit beneath the Father and the Son, and this, to the popular mind, carried with it an appearance of Tritheism. To guard against the objection, some inclined to soften the language employed ; while others, like Origen in a later period, exaggerated the ideas of separation and subordina- 1 " Simplices qmque, ne dixerim imprudeutes et idiotte, quae major semper credentium pars est, quoniam et ipsa regula fidei a pluribus diis seculi ad unicum et verum Deum transfert, non intelligentes, unicum quidem sed cum sua oeconomia esse credendiim, expavescunt ad oecono- miam.
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