Subordinationism
Christian doctrine that the Son and the Holy Spirit are subordinate to God the Father in nature and being / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Christian religion, Subordinationism is a doctrine of the Trinity. It claims that the Son is subordinate to the Father because he is a created being, and because he has a created nature, he is not fully God as the Father is.[1][2]
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Subordinationism was rejected as heresy at the Council of Nicaea in 325. Subordination of the Spirit, which argued that the Spirit must not have been fully God because of his subordination to the Father and the Son, was a similar issue in 381 and was condemned as heresy in the second council of Constantinople.[3]
Subordinationism is different from Arianism. Subordinationism shares the Nicene-Constantinopolitan view. Unlike Subordinationism, Arianism believes that the Holy Spirit is not a person but rather a supernatural force, and that the Son was not always the Son from the beginning, that there was a time before the Son was begotten, and that the title "Son" was just a title he later assumed.[4][5]