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The Trinity has traditionally been a subject matter of strictly theological works focused on proving the doctrine of the Trinity and defending it against its critics. In recent years, however, the Trinity has made an entrance into the world of (Christian) literature through books such as The Shack , published in 2007 and The Trinity Story ...
Theophilus of Antioch is the earliest Church father documented to have used the word "Trinity" to refer to God.. Debate exists as to whether the earliest Church Fathers in Christian history believed in the doctrine of the Trinity – the Christian doctrine that God the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons sharing one homoousion (essence).
A depiction of the first council of Nicaea. Classical trinitarianism [1] [2] is a term which has been used to refer to the model of the trinity formulated in early Christian creeds and classical theologians, such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
The doctrine of the Trinity, considered the core of Christian theology by Trinitarians, is the result of continuous exploration by the church of the biblical data, thrashed out in debate and treatises, eventually formulated at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325 in a way they believe is consistent with the biblical witness, and further refined in later councils and writings. [1]
Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Christianity. [1] Trinity Sunday celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity , the three Persons of God: the Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit .
This doctrine is known as the eternal generation of the Son. Some forms of social trinitarianism set aside the doctrine of eternal generation (though it does not necessarily exclude it) and instead propose that God has eternally existed as three distinct persons, each with their own center of cognitive faculties, without relations of begetting ...
There is a fair amount of confusion within Seventh-day Adventism today on the subject of the trinity. M.L. Andreasen wrote in the 1940s that “The field is divided on the subject of the Trinity” (M.L. Andreason to Elder J.L. McElhany and Elder W.H. Branson, December 25th, 1942 pg 5) and that testimony remains true.
Thus, for example, his teaching on the Trinity reveals a subordination of Son to Father that in the later crass form of Arianism the Church rejected as heretical." [9] Though he did not fully state the doctrine of the immanence of the Trinity, according to B. B. Warfield, he went a long distance in the way of approach to it. [34]
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