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Monarchy of the Father

The Father as the single fountainhead from whom the Son and Spirit eternally flow

The Monarchy of the Father teaches that the Father is the sole source, or arche, and principle of the Son and the Spirit within the Trinity, while all three share one divine being. The Cappadocian Fathers, especially Gregory of Nazianzus, developed this emphasis. It is stressed in Eastern Orthodox Trinitarian theology and bears on the filioque dispute over whether the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone or from the Father and the Son.

How it traveled

  1. Against Praxeas.
    · 220
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  2. Defence of the Nicene Definition. (De Decretis.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  3. De Spiritu Sancto
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
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  4. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  5. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  6. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  7. Treatise on The Most Holy Trinity (QQ[27-43])
    Paris · 1274
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Key passages(20)

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The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea

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Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen · Gregory of Nazianzus

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The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem

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Against Eunomius · Gregory of Nyssa

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