Editing Sabellianism (section)

== Other Competing Views ==
Simonetti sees Arianism "as an extreme reaction against a Sabellianism which was at the time rife in the East."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Hanson |first=Richard Patrick Crosland |title=The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318-381 |publisher=T. & T. Clark |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-567-09485-8}}</ref>{{rp|95}} Arianism advocated three hypostases. The [[Trinitarian]] view also presents three distinct [[Prosopon|person]]s within the [[Godhead in Christianity|Godhead]],<ref>G. T. Stokes, "Sabellianism", ed. William Smith and Henry Wace, A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines (London: John Murray, 1877–1887), 567.</ref> but while Arianism taught three distinct substances, the Trinity doctrine asserts that the three Persons exist in one substance.