Sentence examples for quaternity from inspiring English sources

Important symbols are duality (male female, animus anima), trinity, and quaternity.

The Mazdean quaternity is reflected in the calendar at Nisa in 90 bce.

Here and in a lost tract he attacked the doctrine of "quaternity" (an overemphasis on the "one essence" of the Godhead that seems to separate it from the three Persons of the Trinity and so create a fourth), which he attributed to Peter Lombard, a 12th-century theologian.

He could be said to have concluded that a conceptual leap forward occurs when an archetype constellates, that is to say when an implicit potentiality – in this case the quaternity – is instantiated in a solution to the problem concerned.

However, it made sense in Jung's archetypal conception of things because a three becoming a four, the symbol of quaternity, represents a state of greater wholeness than a trinity.

If the former, then we have a quaternity rather than a trinity.