Definition of "tritheism" []

• Christianity The belief that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate and distinct gods, heretical in orthodox Christianity. (noun)

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• "As they aim to be monotheistic, each variant of this approach has a unique way of undercutting the inference from three divine persons to tritheism."
• "As to the charge of tritheism, Alston opines that “Swinburne embraces a fairly straightforward form of tritheism” (55)."
• "The views seem to range from tritheism, to the idea that the Trinity is an event, to something that differs only slightly, or only in emphasis, from pro-Nicene"