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Trinity vs Incarnation - What's the difference?

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In christianity|lang=en terms the difference between trinity and incarnation

is that trinity is (christianity) in christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the godhead: father, son and holy spirit while incarnation is (christianity) the doctrine that the second person of the trinity assumed human form in the person of jesus christ and is fully divine and fully human.

As proper nouns the difference between trinity and incarnation

is that trinity is (christianity) in christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the godhead: father, son and holy spirit while incarnation is (christianity) the doctrine that the second person of the trinity assumed human form in the person of jesus christ and is fully divine and fully human.

trinity

English

Noun

(trinities)
  • A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity , earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • The state of being three; threeness.

    • Synonyms

    * (group of three) threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate * threeness

    Derived terms

    * nontrinitarian * nontrinitarianism * trinitarian

    See also

    * Trinity * Trinity College * quaternity * Unitarian

    incarnation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incarnate being or form.
  • * Jeffrey
    • She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
  • * F. W. Robertson
    • The very incarnation of selfishness.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation , the patent troll.}}
  • A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
  • An assumption of human form or nature.
  • A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
  • The act of incarnating.
  • The state of being incarnated.
  • (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

    • Related terms

    * carnal * incarnate * reincarnate * reincarnation

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