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Marcellus of Ancyra

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Marcellus of Ancyra (märsĕl`əs, ănsī`rə), fl. 350, Galatian churchman, the most violent opponent of Arianism Arianism (âr`ēənĭz'əm), Christian heresy founded by Arius in the 4th cent.
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 in Asia Minor. He developed the theory that the Trinity was the result of emanations from God that would ultimately revert to God in the final judgment. Marcellus practically denied all distinction between Father and Son, thus teaching a virtual Sabellianism (see Sabellius Sabellianism later was used to include all sorts of speculative ideas that had become attached to the original ideas of Sabellius and his followers. In the East, all monarchians came to be labeled Sabellians.
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) that proved embarrassing to his orthodox defenders. His views were eventually condemned.

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