What's the difference between trinitarian and unitarian?

Trinitarian


Definition:

  • (n.) One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.
  • (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This means the new landscape of Stonehenge embodies modern Mammon's triumvirate of commoditisation, gambling and charity, just as it once did Trinitarian ideas of transcendence and immanence.
  • (2) The sin was so great that only his son (or God himself, depending on your Trinitarian theology) would do.
  • (3) We suggest that there is a trinitarian relationship between the meniscus, cartilage, and subchondral bone, in which structural changes in any one of the three causes secondary pathological adaptive changes in the other two.
  • (4) When she opens her door in Iowa City, a leafy college town where she teaches creative writing, the 65-year-old doesn't look agonised, or reclusive, or - an expectation raised by her enthusiasm for 18th-century theology and books with the word "Trinitarianism" in the title - in the Joyce Carol Oates school of brittle academics.

Unitarian


Definition:

  • (n.) One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
  • (n.) One who rejects the principle of dualism.
  • (n.) A monotheist.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
  • (2) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
  • (3) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
  • (4) Burton and Taylor were married in March 1964 by a Unitarian minister at the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal.
  • (5) The Unitarians and United Church of Christ are also reportedly divesting.
  • (6) "As the Japan manager is a devout Unitarian I wondered if religious beliefs influence tatics," writes Ian Copestake.
  • (7) Human colorectal epithelium is composed mainly of columnar, mucous and endocrine cells; origin of these cell lineages from a multi-potential stem cell at the base of the crypt (the Unitarian hypothesis) has been proposed but not yet demonstrated.
  • (8) The author speaks of physiatrization of rehabilitation and draws attention to the multidimensional approach, whereby he also pays attention to the unitarian aspect of the concept of disease.
  • (9) My first foster home was with a Unitarian minister and his wife.
  • (10) The Federation has a unitarian character in Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Switzerland whereas there are several Federations in France and Belgium.
  • (11) A small number of churches – the Unitarians, Quakers, and Jewish liberals – would like to administer same-sex marriages.
  • (12) This simple review advises caution when composing historical positions to a unitarian concept of positive and negative psychoses.
  • (13) The idea that Shedden lost because she didn’t make a chocolate mosque would only hold water had she been in competition with other cakes that had also been baked into the shape of culturally, socially or politically significant icons, saturated with meanings designed to appeal to the liberally biased judges of Platell’s fecund imagination; ie a sponge Unitarian chapel, a meringue women’s refuge, a fudge abortion clinic, or an icing sugar Tom Daley.
  • (14) Contrary to the unitarian concept of acrokeratosis verruciformis and Darier's disease, a comparative familial, clinical and histopathological analysis of six cases each of these two diseases has suggested that they are separate entities.
  • (15) An unitarian conception of the ovulatory mechanisms, based on the fact that coital-induced ovulation and estrogen-induced ovulation could occur in spontaneous and reflex ovulators respectively, has been proposed.
  • (16) Religious groups that wish to opt in to holding same-sex ceremonies include the Unitarian and Quaker churches, but Miller said individual church ministers in such churches would be free to opt out.
  • (17) The present study supports the unitarian theory that neuroendocrine cells in the gastrointestinal mucosa are of endodermal origin.
  • (18) This unitarian heuristic concept of the monoaminergic psychoses would be in better agreement with the classic clinical data concerning this disease (typology intermediate syndromes and crossed heredity).
  • (19) As interleukin 1 is produced by various cells, it is hypothesized that this molecule may be the "unitarian angiogenic factor."
  • (20) Such institutions teach hardline unitarian dogmas which, even if they are theoretically non-violent, are certainly intolerant.

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