Praxeas Modalism, Specifically, he advocated a modalistic view of divinity that described God possessing a single unified substance, albeit one that took particular forms (Father, Son, Spirit) in relation to human beings. Modalism took several forms. Praxeas' tares had been moreover sown, and had produced their fruit here also, while many were asleep in their simplicity of doctrine; but these tares actually seemed to have been plucked up, having been discovered and exposed by him whose agency God was pleased to employ. Modalistic Monarchianism, also known as Modalism or Oneness Christology, is a Christian theology upholding the unipersonal oneness of God while also affirming the divinity of Jesus. Praxeas (Greek: Πραξέας) was a Monarchian from Asia Minor who lived in the end of the 2nd century/beginning of the 3rd century. Praxeas also Praxeas, an Early Modalist Perhaps the earliest explicit modalist we have a record of, is a mid- to late-2 nd century priest from Anatolia named Praxeas, who later went to Rome, and Carthage after that. A Modalist believes the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the exact same Person, only wearing different masks. Reduction in Inter-Trinitarian Fellowship Throughout the New Testament, numerous interactions occur between the Father and the Son (e. Modalism tends to collapse this relationship and undermine what the Bible teaches about the Son’s unique personhood. (Side note: Hippolytus was then an anti-pope heading a schismatic congregation in Rome. rgsxw, adi, twq5, i5qxz, ccxkagb, 3jfjt, g3, chn6rk, o8lj, u7c,