| It was not equally clear how the position of Nicaea and of Athanasius differed from modalism. |
| We do not make a Sabellian error simply for the fact that Sabellian modalism is Unitarian, and not Trinitarian. |
| Sabellian modalism is usually rejected on the grounds that such modes are strictly sequential, or because they are not intrinsic features of God, or because they are intrinsic but not essential features of God. |
| It should be done, however, in a way that does not lead to modalism. |
| Either modalism or tritheism is the natural egress for such a sustained understanding. |
| When taken to America, however, the form was enhanced by an injection of the modalism of folksong. |
