# Noetus

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Presbyter of the church of Asia Minor about AD 230

**Noetus** ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Νοητός) was a presbyter of the church of [Asia Minor](/source/Asia_Minor) about AD 230. He was a native of [Smyrna](/source/Smyrna), where (or perhaps in [Ephesus](/source/Ephesus)) he became a prominent representative of the particular type of [Christology](/source/Christology) now called [modalistic monarchianism](/source/Modalistic_monarchianism) or [patripassianism](/source/Patripassianism).[1][2]

His views, which led to his excommunication by local [presbyters](/source/Presbyter), are known chiefly through the writings of [Hippolytus](/source/Hippolytus_(writer)), his contemporary at [Rome](/source/Rome), where he settled and had a large following. He accepted the [fourth Gospel](/source/Gospel_of_John), but regarded its statements about the [Logos](/source/Logos) as [allegorical](/source/Allegory). His disciple Cleomenes held that God is both invisible and visible; as visible He is the Son.[2]

The Catholic Encyclopedia notes: "It is true that it is easy to suppose Tertullian and Hippolytus to have misrepresented the opinions of their opponents".[3]

## See also

- [Sabellius](/source/Sabellius)

- [Praxeas](/source/Praxeas)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** A History of Christianity: Volume I: Beginnings to 1500: Revised Edition pg 144-146 By Kenneth S. Latourette Published by HarperCollins, 1975 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-06-064952-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-064952-6), [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-06-064952-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-064952-4) [\[1\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4pzuXCiDdYC&dq=Sabellius+text&pg=PA144)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-1) [Chisholm 1911](#CITEREFChisholm1911).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-NACE_3-0)** [*Monarchians*, New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10448a.htm)

- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Noetus](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Noetus)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 732.

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