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The Christian conception of the Triune God, as even the most passing acquaintance with the history of dogma reveals, did not appear fully developed in the actual teaching of Christ or in the Apostolic Age. It took three hundred and fifty years of meditation and controversy to achieve the dogmatic formulations of Nicea and Constantinople on the divinity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. This of course does not mean that the truths then formulated were ever absent from the treasury of revelation communicated to the apostles, but instead of such a precise formulation as “three Persons in one nature” there was at the beginning a more obscure and even enigmatic expression of the Trinity in Unity.
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© 1970 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Sikora, J.J. (1970). The Trinity. In: Theological Reflections of a Christian Philosopher. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9576-8_4
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