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The Holy Trinity

One God in three coequal, coeternal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity confesses that God is one essence, or ousia, in three coequal and coeternal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Early terms appear in Theophilus and Tertullian, and the faith was confessed at the Council of Constantinople in 381. It is affirmed across all the major Christian communions, though questions of the inner relations, such as the filioque, are contested separately.

How it traveled

  1. 2 Corinthians
    Philippi · 67
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  2. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  3. Epistle to the Philadelphians: Shorter and Longer Versions
    Antioch · 108
    explains
  4. A Plea for the Christians
    Alexandria · 190
    explains
  5. Against Heresies: Book III
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  6. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  7. Against Heresies: Book I
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  8. Against Praxeas.
    — · 220
    explains
  9. Origen De Principiis.
    Alexandria · 253
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  10. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
    explains
  11. The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice
    Nicaea · 325
    explains
  12. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  13. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  14. Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations
    Mosul · 345
    explains
  15. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  16. On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia. (De Synodis.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  17. Defence of the Nicene Definition. (De Decretis.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  18. Defence of Dionysius. (De Sententia Dionysii.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  19. On Luke x. 22. (Illud Omnia, &c.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  20. Letter of Eusebius. (Epistola Eusebii.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  21. Synodal Letter to the People of Antioch. (Tomus ad Antiochenos.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  22. Synodal Letter to the Bishops of Africa. (Ad Afros Epistola Synodica.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  23. De Spiritu Sancto
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    explains
  24. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    explains
  25. The Second Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Constantinople
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 381
    explains
  26. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  27. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  28. Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  29. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
    explains
  30. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
    explains

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Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator — CHAPTER 13. - THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE IN THREE PERSONS TAUGHT, IN SCRIPTURE, FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. — part 10↗explains

Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator · John Calvin

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City of God — Augustin passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress, and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities are discussed.—Speculations regarding the creation of the world. — Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in Whom Substance and Quality are Identical.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He advances reasons to show not only that the Father is not greater than the Son, but that neither are both together anything greater than the Holy Spirit, nor any two together in the same Trinity anything greater than one, nor all three together anything greater than each singly. He also intimates that the nature of God may be understood from our understanding of truth, from our knowledge of the supreme good, and from our implanted love of righteousness; but above all, that our knowledge of God is to be sought through love, in which he notices a trio of things which contains a trace of the Trinity. — part 1↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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The Fifth Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Constantinople — The Capitula of the Council. — part 1↗explains

The Fifth Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Constantinople · The Ecumenical Councils

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Treatise on The Most Holy Trinity (QQ[27-43]) — Question. 30 - THE PLURALITY OF PERSONS IN GOD (FOUR ARTICLES) — part 1↗explains

Treatise on The Most Holy Trinity (QQ[27-43]) · Thomas Aquinas

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A Treatise on Faith and the Creed — Of the Holy Spirit and the Mystery of the Trinity. — part 1↗explains

A Treatise on Faith and the Creed · Augustine of Hippo

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Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator — CHAPTER 13. - THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE IN THREE PERSONS TAUGHT, IN SCRIPTURE, FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. — part 11↗explains

Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator · John Calvin

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Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator — CHAPTER 13. - THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE IN THREE PERSONS TAUGHT, IN SCRIPTURE, FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. — part 14↗explains

Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator · John Calvin

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Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator — CHAPTER 13. - THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE IN THREE PERSONS TAUGHT, IN SCRIPTURE, FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. — part 2↗explains

Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator · John Calvin

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John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith — An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. — Book I — part 3↗explains

John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith · John of Damascus

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Monologium — Chapter LIX↗explains

Monologium · Anselm of Canterbury

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On the Holy Trinity — He embraces in a brief compendium the contents of the previous books; and finally shows that the Trinity, in the perfect sight of which consists the blessed life that is promised us, is here seen by us as in a glass and in an enigma, so long as it is seen through that image of God which we ourselves are. — part 11↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He embraces in a brief compendium the contents of the previous books; and finally shows that the Trinity, in the perfect sight of which consists the blessed life that is promised us, is here seen by us as in a glass and in an enigma, so long as it is seen through that image of God which we ourselves are. — part 14↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He embraces in a brief compendium the contents of the previous books; and finally shows that the Trinity, in the perfect sight of which consists the blessed life that is promised us, is here seen by us as in a glass and in an enigma, so long as it is seen through that image of God which we ourselves are. — part 2↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He embraces in a brief compendium the contents of the previous books; and finally shows that the Trinity, in the perfect sight of which consists the blessed life that is promised us, is here seen by us as in a glass and in an enigma, so long as it is seen through that image of God which we ourselves are. — part 3↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He instructs us that there is a kind of trinity discernible in man, who is the image of God, viz. the mind, and the knowledge by which the mind knows itself, and the love wherewith it loves both itself and its own knowledge; these three being mutually equal and of one essence. — part 3↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He instructs us that there is a kind of trinity discernible in man, who is the image of God, viz. the mind, and the knowledge by which the mind knows itself, and the love wherewith it loves both itself and its own knowledge; these three being mutually equal and of one essence. — part 4↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He resolves the question he had deferred, and teaches us that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one power and one wisdom, no otherwise than one God and one essence. And he then inquires how it is that, in speaking of God, the Latins say, One essence, three persons; but the Greeks, One essence, three substances or hypostases. — part 2↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He resolves the question he had deferred, and teaches us that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one power and one wisdom, no otherwise than one God and one essence. And he then inquires how it is that, in speaking of God, the Latins say, One essence, three persons; but the Greeks, One essence, three substances or hypostases. — part 5↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Holy Trinity — He resolves the question he had deferred, and teaches us that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one power and one wisdom, no otherwise than one God and one essence. And he then inquires how it is that, in speaking of God, the Latins say, One essence, three persons; but the Greeks, One essence, three substances or hypostases. — part 6↗explains

On the Holy Trinity · Augustine of Hippo

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