Sentence examples for distinct persons from inspiring English sources

We believe the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are three distinct persons".

The Nestorians taught that there are two distinct persons in the incarnate Christ and two natures conjoined as one.

For them, Wanadi was the Supreme Being of great light and, although one being, he exists in three distinct persons (damodede, "spirit-doubles").

The Eastern churches have long suspected that the West's error resides in giving an "Augustinian" priority to an undifferentiated divine essence that in fact renders the distinct persons nonessential to the Godhead.

Suspected of harbouring heretical views (i.e., Sabellianism, which emphasized God's unity at the expense of the distinct persons), Jerome insisted that the answer to ecclesiastical and theological problems resided in oneness with the Roman bishop.

Arianism is often considered to be a form of Unitarian theology in that it stresses God's unity at the expense of the notion of the Trinity, the doctrine that three distinct persons are united in one Godhead.

In the case of multiple personality disorder, there is no real temptatiom to reify the distinct personalities, to treat them as distinct person-like beings subsisting in or as a single substance.

The key for Locke is that what grounds both prudential concern and moral responsibility is the personal identity relation, a relation uniquely unifying temporally distinct person-stages via consciousness.

It was that I no longer had the sense that I was a distinct person.

Certainly her obsessional behaviors (counting calories, ritually berating herself) are central to the illness, but at such times Lia can feel more like a concatenation of symptoms than a distinct person.

Return for a moment to our thought experiment where I telepathically know all your thoughts whether you like it or not  From my perspective, the perspective of the knower — your existence as a distinct person would begin to shrink.