Triune God week 11

the great challenge facing christians with respect to the trinity doctine

unity does not cancel trinity nor vice versa

arius and the status of the Son - God or something made by God

Not God because there would be two Gods, perfect creation who became God

Sabellius and the alleged process of becoming in God

a historical succession in the revelation of his being

Unitatians and the derivation of the Son

deny that the son is consubstantial with the Father and he is inferior

John milton and arianism

son and the spirit were created by the free will of the Father before the creation of the world

socinanism on the status of the son

wholly created human being with no preexistence before his immediate supernatural conception and he was only created to proclaim the law

christian theology and the question of moving beyond the exact language of scripture or in introducing extrabiblical terminology

to defent the truth of scripture against all heresy

augustine sought to avoid the term substantia in his discussion of the trinity why?

it suggests a division between essence and accidents or properties

augustine and the term essentia

essence and atributes coincide

differences in terminology and misunderstanding between the east and the west

taught the same thing three divine persons are not modes but subsistences

the three personal properties that distinguish the three persons

paternity(unbegotten) sonship and sanctification(procession)

being and personhood in God

being and personhood coincide

the father begets the son everlasting

generates him perpetually

who especially influenced the west’s affirmation that the Holy spirit proceeds from both the father and the son

Augustine