Noetus

{{Short description|Presbyter of the church of Asia Minor about AD 230}} '''Noetus''' ({{langx|el|Νοητός}}) was a presbyter of the church of [[Asia Minor]] about AD 230. He was a native of [[Smyrna]], where (or perhaps in [[Ephesus]]) he became a prominent representative of the particular type of [[Christology]] now called [[modalistic monarchianism]] or [[patripassianism]].<ref>A History of Christianity: Volume I: Beginnings to 1500: Revised Edition pg 144-146 By Kenneth S. Latourette Published by HarperCollins, 1975 {{ISBN|0-06-064952-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-06-064952-4}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4pzuXCiDdYC&dq=Sabellius+text&pg=PA144]</ref>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

His views, which led to his excommunication by local [[presbyter]]s, are known chiefly through the writings of [[Hippolytus (writer)|Hippolytus]], his contemporary at [[Rome]], where he settled and had a large following. He accepted the [[Gospel of John|fourth Gospel]], but regarded its statements about the [[Logos]] as [[allegory|allegorical]]. His disciple Cleomenes held that God is both invisible and visible; as visible He is the Son.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

The Catholic Encyclopedia notes: "It is true that it is easy to suppose Tertullian and Hippolytus to have misrepresented the opinions of their opponents".<ref name=NACE>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10448a.htm ''Monarchians'', New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia]</ref>

==See also== *[[Sabellius]] *[[Praxeas]]

==References== {{reflist}} * {{EB1911|wstitle=Noetus|volume=19|page=732}}

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