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Subordinationist

Son or Spirit ontologically subordinate to the Father — Arian/Socinian; rejected by II.3.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Trinity is Nicene-With-Filioque. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Other positions on Trinity