Glossary
Jiang's label for the view that Father, Son, and Spirit are distinguishable parts or expressions within a larger divine whole.
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partialism
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...forms, okay? Makes sense, right? Then you have the idea of partialism. Partialism is that, like, in an ocean, you have different seas, right?..."
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Glossary
Explanation that God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are parts of one divine force, like parts of an ocean.
definition
Jiang lays out three alternatives that seemed more intelligible than orthodox trinitarianism: modalism, partialism, and Arianism, all of which the Church rejected.
model
Modalism, partialism, and Arianism are intelligible story-forms for the divine relationship, but Jiang says each leaves a problem unresolved.
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"...forms, okay? Makes sense, right? Then you have the idea of partialism. Partialism is that, like, in an ocean, you have different seas, right?..."
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"...split off and do their own thing now and then, okay? Partialism also makes sense. And then you had something called Arianism. And Arian..."
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"...differently. Okay, that makes sense, right? Second is the idea of partialism. Partialism is just the idea that God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, are all..."
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"...are different parts to it, right? So that's the idea of partialism. That makes sense too, right? Okay, and the third idea is the..."
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"Okay, so there have been different theories proposed to explain the relationship between God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. Okay? Okay, so let's look..."
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"Another theory that's popular is called partialism. Partialism, and the idea is that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are parts of a higher..."
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"So God is a higher being than Jesus. Jesus is still great, but God is the superior being, okay? And again, not great, okay,..."
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"...believes in human in the human imagination he's okay with modelism partialism and erinism not only because it's"
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"...right you can meet jesus and talk to jesus in modelism partialism and erinism but guess what guys in no situation can you write..."
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"...God were different forms of the same entity. Then, you have partialism, which is to say that they are part of the same entity...."
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"...what we need to understand is, these first three theories, modalism, partialism, and Aaronism, are really stories, okay? They're stories of who God is...."
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"...in here. And if you look at these three theories, modalism, partialism, and eruditism, you can actually put them together, okay? They're not contradicting..."
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