In this Apollinaris takes up the trichotomyof human nature, a view which he did not apparently hold at the beginning of his teaching.
Valentinus avails himself of the notion of the trichotomy of human nature, and gives a place for the bulk of Christians, those who did not embrace Gnosticism; cf.
The trichotomy corresponds to the Platonic (and alchemistic) tripartite division of the powers of the soul.
The element of truth in trichotomy is simply this, that man has a triplicity of endowment, in virtue of which the single soul has relations to matter, to self, and to God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trichotomy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
