TRINITY HISTORY OF TRINITARIAN DOCTRINES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY BROWSE TABLE OF CONTENTS RANDOM ENTRY ARCHIVES EDITORIAL INFORMATION EDITORIAL BOARD HOW TO CITE SPECIAL CHARACTERS ADVANCED TOOLS CONTACT SUPPORT PDFS FRIENDS DONATION SEPIA LIBRARIES NAVIGATION BIBLIOGRAPHY ACADEMIC PREVIEW AUTHOR CITATION INFO SUPPLEMENT INTRODUCTION CHRISTIAN BIBLE THE OLD TESTAMENT THE NEW TESTAMENT DEVELOPMENT OF CREEDS UP TO THE ONE GOD THE TRINITY TERTULLIAN ARIAN CONTROVERSY CONSENSUS GREGORY OF NYSSA AUGUSTINE ATHANASIAN CREED MEDIEVAL THEORIES THOMAS AQUINAS JOHN DUNS SCOTUS SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENT THE HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS SPECULATED HOLY NO ONE FULLY DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY EXPLAINED THE END BELOW SECTION UNITARIANISM ALWAYS CLAIM BE IN SENSE OR AT ILLUSTRATED BIBLICAL SOMETIMES POPULAR ANTITRINITARIAN LITERATURE PAINTS DOCTRINE RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION DIVINE THREESOMES RELIGIOUS WRITINGS ANCIENT MALE FEMALE BODY FACES ON ONE SIMILARITY ALONE PROVE CHRISTIAN COPYING DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN DIRECT INFLUENCE SECOND CENTURY CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY JEWISH PHILOSOPHER THEOLOGIAN PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA PHILO JUDAEUS THE PRODUCT MIDDLE PLATONISM ELEMENTS STOICISM PYTHAGOREANISM INSPIRED TIMAEUS PHILO READ JEWISH BIBLE TEACHING COSMOS WORD SON OF GOD EMANATION CREATES MEANS CREATIVE POWER ROYAL AGENTS DISTINCT AS IT METAPHYSICAL DISTANCE THE MATERIAL WORLD DILLON MORGAN NORTON INFLUENCE NEOPYTHAGOREAN MIDDLE PLATONIST NUMENIUS TRIAD CALLING CREATOR OFFSPRING MAKER TAUGHT SIMILAR SOMEWHAT JUSTIN MARTYR ORIGIN LOGOS FIRE SPEAKER THESIS PLATO GREEK PHILOSOPHERS WISDOM HOLDS DIALOGUE DISCUSSED THE SON JUSTIN THE POWER SECOND LETTER FINDS MENTION THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRST APOLOGY THE MIDDLE PLATONISTS SCHEME RATHER ONE OF THEM PRIMARY THE ULTIMATE CHRISTIANS PLATONISM TAKE OVER CONCEPT TRANSCENDENCE IN LIGHT INTELLIGENCE DARE ASSERT THE CREATOR ALL THINGS LEFT REALMS HIMSELF VISIBLE LITTLE SPOT ON THEOPHANY THE ACTUAL LABOR THE ACTION HIGHEST MUST DONE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD NEOPLATONIST PLOTINUS ENDOWED ITSELF ENNEADS SAMENESS HOMOOUSIOS INTELLECTUALS BELIEVED NEOPLATONISTS AWARENESS PERSONS STEEPED THOUGHT NEOPLATONISM THE STOICS CURRENTS GREEK PHILOSOPHY WHETHER SEES BACKGROUND USEFUL DISTORTING SAW THEMSELVES TRYING BUILD THE BIBLE FAITHFUL THE AIM SHOWING CHRISTIANITY CONSISTENT THE BEST OF FOLLOW FALSE WHOMEVER REVEALED THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ISSUE INFERRED TURN TO TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE SOPHISTICATED TRINITARIANS GRANT HOLDING BY GOD NEW TESTAMENT TIMES PATRISTIC WE CAN NUMBER GENESIS YAHWEH APPEARS ABRAHAM TEXT SPOKE AS ONE WITH ONE VOICE WHAT IS THIS APPEARANCE TRIPLE INCARNATION THREE PERSONS INTERPRETATIONS STAYS BEHIND TRAVEL SODOM READERS PREINCARNATE TO DO BIDDING IDENTIFIED CHRIST ANGEL ISRAEL THE BOOKS TO HIMSELF PLURAL PLURAL OF MAJESTY SPEECH CONVERSATION THROUGH THE LENS SPEAKS PASSAGES CALL JESUS CHRIST THE WORD WISDOM OF GOD THE GOSPEL OF JOHN JESUS THE SENDING COMFORTER THE DOOR OPEN INTELLIGENT ADDITION WHOM FATHER THE MAN IN OPPOSITION TAKEN INVOLVE ANTHROPOMORPHIZATION DIVINE ATTRIBUTES GREEK SPECULATIONS CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS APOLOGISTS PHILOSOPHERS HOLD TEACH MAY IT BE INFERENCE TO THE BEST SEEM DEDUCTIVE INFERENCE INADEQUATE EVIDENCE BELIEVE THE AUTHORITY DOCTRINAL TRUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH EASTERN ORTHODOX MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN TRADITION UNDERSTOOD CATHOLIC SHOWS NECESSITY AUTHORITY APART GUIDANCE INTERPRETING STANCE NEITHER EASTERN DENY CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS ARGUE THE BEST EXPLANATION BEGIN TEACHES MOVE NATURE DIVINE PERSONS HUMANKIND ARGUMENTS EMPLOYED SHOW FULL DIVINITY OF CHRIST WORK ACTION FOR ANY FORGIVENESS OF SINS RAISING TRULY SAYING DESCRIPTION THE FIRST AND THE LAST SAVIOR QUALITY OMNISCIENCE PERFORM SOMETHING SHOULD BAPTIZED NAME SUFFER CLEAR PERSON AMOUNT IDENTICAL MIND SO ON STATUS PREMISE DEPEND ARGUMENT GIVE COUNTEREXAMPLES HUMANS GODS RELEVANT AUTHORIZED TO FORGIVE CHALLENGE DENIED THE SON OF GOD RUNS PASSAGE PROPHECY PREDICTING THE GOD WILL DO THE PROPHECY IN THE LIFE REPLY POSSIBLE PREMISES TO BE TRUE EVEN THOUGH THE CONCLUSION PREDICTION GEORGE BUSH CONQUER IRAQ SAID TO GENERAL SMITH ONE AND THE SAME ACTED AGENT ACTS SERVANT DISADVANTAGE UNDESIRABLE ADDS NUMERICALLY IDENTICAL LOGICALLY THINGS NEARLY DECLINE WITH GOD ON THE OTHER HAND MYSTERY CONTRADICTORY IN FACT TRADITIONAL CASE DIVINITY OF JESUS CONSTRUED COLLECTION ATTEMPT INFER EXPLAINS ALTERNATE LESS ABOVE DATE ANCIENT TIMES TRINITARIANISM ATTACKED BOWMAN STUART WATERLAND DEVELOPED DATING CENTURIES FORGOTTEN CLARKE EMLYN HAYNES LINDSEY PRIESTLEY WILSON EARLY CHRISTIANITY THEOLOGICALLY CATHOLIC MOVEMENT ORGANIZATION CLAIMED INCREASINGLY ATTENTION SCHOLARS DIVERGENT TERMS TRANSLATE THE LAST DECADES USAGE THIRD CENTURY AUTHORS REFER TO PLURALITY THREESOME CONSIDER COMMON STRATEGY DEFENDING MONOTHEISM PERIOD UNIQUE DIVINITY THUS ORIGEN THE UNIVERSE SUPERIOR TO EACH EXISTENCE THAT WHICH LESS THAN RATIONAL CREATURES SAINTS GREATER THAN MORE THAN THAT STRAIN SUBORD