The History of Christian Theology

Lecture 10: The Doctrine of the Trinity

the three persons. Following Augustine, the West will say that the three are

differentiated by their relations. Ŷ

“The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed” in Leith, Creeds of the Churches,

28–33; also in Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. 2, 57–61.

Dünzl, A Brief History of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church.

Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, vol. 1, chap. 4.

1. Do you agree that the Nicene doctrine of the Trinity was really necessary
   to make sense of the extraordinary claims Christians made about Christ?


2. The Nicene doctrine of the Trinity was intended as a form of
   monotheism. Is it successful on that score?

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