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In Christianity, the Godhead is a unit consisting of God the Father, Jesus Christ (the Son), and the Holy Spirit. Though often used interchangeably with the concept of Trinity, the terminology of Godhead is broader than the idea of Trinity, and includes other ideas of how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are interrelated.1 Contrasting views of the Godhead
The nature of the Godhead is defined differently among different Christian denominations. In most branches of Christianity, including Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and most of Protestantism, trinitarianism prevails and the Godhead is viewed as the Holy Trinity, and so the word Godhead is often used interchangeably with Trinity.
Contrasting views of the Godhead include the version of tritheism accepted by some denominations of Mormonism, the unitarianism of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Monotheistic Modalism of the Oneness PentecostalAn offshoot of the Pentecostal branch of Christianity, Oneness Pentecostals believe that there is one God with no essential divisions in His nature (such as a trinity). He is not a plurality of persons, but He does have a plurality of manifestations, roles (in which manifestations of God are not limited to three)), the DualismThe term dualism is the state of being dual, or having a twofold division. Dualism doctrine consists of two basic opposing elements. Generally it consists of any system which is founded on a double principle. The term dualism has several uses: Theological of GnosticismGnosticism is a blanket term for various religions and sects most prominent in the first few centuries A. General characteristics Many elements of gnosticism are pre-Christian, and it is generally accepted that orthodox Christianity and its canonical text, and various other nontrinitarianNontrinitarianism or antitrinitarianism is the doctrinal description applied to rejection of the Trinitarian doctrine that God subsists as three distinct persons in the Holy Trinity. As the notion of the Holy Trinity is not of particular importance to non views of denominations such as the Church of Christ, ScientistThe Church of Christ, Scientist often known as The Christian Science Church is a nontrinitarian Protestant Christian denomination, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879. The Bible and Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures are together the, the Unification ChurchThe Unification Church was founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon, a Korean minister who fled from North Korea during the Korean War. The full original name of the church is The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity but in the 1980s, and Unitarian UniversalismUnitarian Universalism UU or UUism is a liberal religious tradition that was formed by the merger of Unitarian and Universalist groups. Its roots are in Protestantism; although, Christianity is no longer required, or predominant, in modern Unitarian Unive.
Godhead also refers to the divine nature or essence of GodThis article focuses on the concept of singular, monotheistic God . See deity, gods, or goddesses for details on divine entities in specific religions and mythologies. God is a term referring to the supreme being generally believed to be ruler or creator; see Theology.
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