sentences:  Subordinationist tendencies are evident in theologians like Justin, Tertullian, Origen, and Novatian; but even in Irenaeus, to whom trinitarian speculations are alien, commenting on , has no difficulty in considering Christ inferior to the Father.’
  
  Subordinationism, according to "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", "regards either the Son as subordinate to the Father or the Holy Spirit as subordinate to both.It is a characteristic tendency in much Christian teaching of the first three centuries, and is a marked feature of such otherwise orthodox Fathers as" Justin Martyr and Irenaeus.Reasons for this tendency include