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Subordinationism

The rejected idea that the Son or Spirit rank beneath the Father in being

Subordinationism is the teaching that the Son and or the Holy Spirit are inferior in being to the Father. Various pre-Nicene tendencies leaned this way, and the position was set aside when the Council of Nicaea confessed the Son as homoousios, of one essence with the Father. The tradition distinguishes this rejected ontological inferiority from an orthodox ordering of relations, or taxis, among persons who remain fully equal.

How it traveled

  1. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
    applies
  2. Against Praxeas.
    · 220
    explains
  3. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    applies
  4. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
    challenges
  5. On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia. (De Synodis.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  6. Defence of the Nicene Definition. (De Decretis.)
    Alexandria · 373
    challenges
  7. Letter of Eusebius. (Epistola Eusebii.)
    Alexandria · 373
    challenges
  8. De Spiritu Sancto
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    challenges
  9. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    challenges
  10. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
    challenges
  11. Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
    Nyssa · 395
    challenges
  12. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
    challenges
  13. On the Holy Spirit
    Milan · 397
    challenges
  14. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    challenges
  15. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
    challenges
  16. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
    challenges
  17. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
    challenges
  18. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 439
    explains
  19. The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 450
    explains
  20. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
    challenges
  21. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
    challenges

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Circular to Bishops of Egypt and Libya. (Ad Episcopos Ægypti Et Libyæ Epistola Encyclica.) · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Exposition of the Christian Faith · Ambrose of Milan

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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