Trinitarian

1. 1. Of or relating to the Christian Trinity.
   2. Believing or professing belief in the Christian Trinity or the doctrine of the Trinity.
2. trinitarian Having three members, parts, or facets.

1. One who believes in the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.
2. A member of a Roman Catholic religious congregation founded in 1198 and now devoted to teaching, nursing, and pastoral work.

The doctrine of the Christian church that each of three persons (the father, the son, and the holy ghost) is God, and yet that there are not three Gods (tritheism) but one. The doctrine teeters on the brink of contradiction, or perhaps beyond it, and has occasioned much reflection on notions such as substance, identity, and person. It is denied by Unitarians, who regard Jesus purely as a human person.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: adherent of Trinitarianism

The word trinitarian is used in several senses:

• Ideas or things pertaining to the Holy Trinity.
• A person or group adhering to the doctrine of Trinitarianism, which holds God to subsist in the form of the Holy Trinity.
• The Trinitarian Order is a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in 1198 by St. John of Matha.
• Alumni or students associated with Trinity College, Cambridge

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