Godhead (Christianity)
In
Christianity, the
Godhead is a unit consisting of
God the Father,
Jesus Christ (the Son), and the
Holy Spirit. Though often used interchangeably with the concept of
Trinity, the terminology of
Godhead is broader than the idea of
Trinity, and includes other ideas of how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are inter-related.
Alternate meaning: The word
Godhead also refers to the divine nature or essence of God.
See Theology.
Contrasting views of the Godhead
The nature of the Godhead is defined differently among Christian denominationss. In most branches of Christianity, including Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and most of Protestantism, the Godhead is viewed as a Trinity, and the word Godhead is often used interchangeably with Trinity.
Contrasting views of the Godhead include the version of tritheism accepted by some denominations of Mormonism, the unitarianism of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Monotheistic Modalism of the Oneness Pentecostals (in which manifestations of God are not limited to three)), the Dualism of Gnosticism, and various other views by denominations including the Church of Christ, Scientist, the Unification Church, and Unitarian Universalism.
See also
\n*Theology\n*God\n*Trinity\n*Godhead (Mormonism)
External links
\n* "The Oneness of God" by David K. Bernard (Series in Pentecostal Theology, Volume 1)
