Noetus

Noetus (c.200), heretic. He was probably the first to teach Patripassian doctrines—that it was God the Father who in the Incarnation was born, suffered, and died. He also rejected the Logos doctrine and accused his opponents of ditheism. He was condemned at Smyrna c.200.

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